SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Baseball is coming back. Designated hitters, pitching specialists and the eerie shadows occupying corners of the stands where ticket holders used to be seated.There will be no people in the stands, only social-distancing players attempting to ply their trade with no sunflower ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The stately Belmont Stakes, to be contested on June 20, has recently told the racing world it won't be rocking its luxury liner of a race this year.After the other two legs of the imperial Triple Crown series -- the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes -- made changes to their ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Throw out the baby with the bath water.The professional baseball seasons will be much different than ever before. That is if there are professional baseball seasons this summer.Pandemic and COVID-19 have been harder to fathom than a Sandy Koufax fastball or stopping Joe ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Well-organized. Historically relevant. Loyalty up and down the I-81 corridor. A significant summer baseball league that was begun in 1897.But not in 2020.No collegiate baseball this summer in the Valley Baseball League of Virginia, an NCAA-sanctioned and Major League ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Robins bob along, after their worms and mostly undisturbed by people chasing spring.Infields are not manicured, or outfields mowed or bleachers filled with banter, laughter and young people having fun in the warming temperatures.Familiar sounds of baseballs thumping into ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Professional baseball is skating along, worried about any playing dates as the coronavirus controls sports, and still posing the question of what will happen to the 42 minor league franchises now scheduled to be shuttered following the 2020 season.Will the Major League season ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- When last seen in the late summer of the 2019 season in Grand Junction, Colorado, one-time Shepherd outfielder Brenton Doyle was scalding hot and fast approaching the .400 mark with his bat.But Grand Junction was eliminated from the Pioneer League playoffs, and Doyle's first ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Changes. Changes. Changes.There have been entire sports schedules canceled. Other sports are hanging on to hope that the suspended schedules they now have in place will not have to be changed again.As of now, the much-anointed Kentucky Derby will be staged on the First Saturday ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- There might be no run on grits at the Piggly Wiggly or Harris-Teeter supermarkets. You can probably still get okra, hominy and black-eyes peas. Storied Southern delicacies can still be found in Starkville, Tuscaloosa and College Station.But what about "Spring Football?"A ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Any thoroughbred racing fan who saw Tiznow virtually will his way to his second Breeders Cup Classic win would be tempted to chance a few bob on one of his younger relatives.Tiznow was the cornerstone of what WinStar stables was accomplishing about a decade ago. Not only did he ...
