We are putting the finishing touches on a 35+ team for the Maine Down East Baseball Classic, and need a pitcher or two, and maybe one outfielder. The player fee is only $ 60.00 per player. We will play 3 round robin games on Saturday, July 2nd thru Sunday, July 3rd. The Semi-finals and Finals are on Monday...
Saturday, the 18th, saw another fine New Scotland evening with Jerry Solomon and John Atwell starting for the Sox and Vets. The hard hitting Sox went out and got 2 runs in the 1st and 2nd with the Vets then answering with 3 in their 3rd making it 4-3 which held up in the 4th. Both teams plated 2 in the 5th with...
Tuesday the 14th on a great New Scotland evening saw a closely contested match throughout with Artie G and Ed Rogers starting for the Yanks and Americans. Yanks went right out in the 1st with 5 runs, but the Americans answered with 5 of their own. The Yanks managed a run in the 2nd and 3 in the 3rd, but the Am...
The Reds moved to 3 - 2 with a 6 -5 win over the Yankees on Sunday. I wasn't there and don't have the book, so there are no details yet. Ed, would you like to give the summary? Worm
Sorry about late posting of this but I had a power outage in my area yesterday afternoon until about 3:30 this morning. 10:00 a.m. Kanellis-2 Lapinel-2 Daley-2 Plew-2 Briscoe-2 Lipkin-2 Corrigan-2- Manager Noto-2 Stanley-3 Koster-3- Manager Wixon-2 1:00 p.m. McQuade-2- Manager Gedney-2 Burri...
Giants defeated Dodgers 9-2. Bob Bolt scattered five hits over 5 innings and Doug Reisinger finished up. Tony Nardacci doubled twice, singled and drove in two runs, Wayne Philips had two hits and two RBI and Mike Kane drove in two with a single and SF and stole two bases to lead the Giants, now 5-1. Jim Ki...
CARDS - AMERICANS GAME OFF Thunder and Lightning with heavy rain approaching Voorheesville directly. Raining heavy south of Albany and moving northeast. Outlook for a game is dismal. Sue Phillips and I agree game not to be played tonight. Regards, Brad Buchan Tel - 518-392-5280 Cell - 518-852-315...
The Giants, behind the hitting and pitching of Steve Lounello and Bob Bolt, beat the Black Sox 3-2. Giants took a 2-0 lead into the 6th when the Sox scored twice to tie it on Ralph Caputo's line-drive single to left. But Jim Porter led off the bottom of the 7th with a sharp single up the middle to start the Gi...
Hi Guys - as we learn more and more about the science of wood and wood bats (why some break easier than others), it figures that the people who hold degrees in engineering (i.e. Mike Kravitz) would find the cause(s). Everybody wants to know why wood baseball bats sometimes break as they do (shatter in ha...
If you would like to come out and see some good ballgames be at New Scotland Town Park-Swift Road Field on Sunday, June 20 at 10:00 a.m. I need some volunteers to help with barbecuing, signing up player's and whatever surprises might pop up, as they always seem to do. Thank you. Contact me at: dbballwixo...
I've received several communications from Steve Sigler to date re: the 2011 Fall Classic. I understand it's a huge undertaking for him and his MSBL staff to organize and get a feel for how many teams he will have in each division. It's really not too early for him to begin the process. I told him I do not ha...
Fathers and sons slots are filling up rapidly for the annual games. If you haven't contacted me yet with your intentions do so. I must know no later than Thursday, June 17. I will post the names and game times on Friday. My e-mail address is: dbballwixon@aol.com. If you have told me in passing that you ar...
I have a friend who just purchased a car and I need someone to look at it and let me know if there are any major problems. If you know of someone let me know. Quentin Jensen 701-1014 call or text qjensen19@yahoo.com Thanks Q
Last season our wonderful league donated over $2000 dollars to the Prostate Cancer Foundation. As many of us heard at the Swing into Spring banquet that many players or family members have been diagnosed with this form of Cancer. It is up to us to help one another out and donate to this foundation. How C...
