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The end of baseball season has fans feeling dreary as the long days of the sunshine and ball games are over. Winter is coming! Here is the ultimate guide to surviving the off-season. Step 1: Continue to Live Your Life The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series has every Cubs fan on cloud nine. This off-season will be rough for fans of the Cleveland Indians fans and every other Major League team, but we must continue charge ahead with our everyday lives. The sun will rise again, and the earth will keep spinning. Step 2: Stay Busy It is so...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the return of baseball and softball to the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020. Baseball was originally added to the Olympic Games in 1992, with softball following in 1996.  In 2008, both sports were removed, and since them both federations have been campaigning vigorously for the return of their sports. The return of softball could be a gold medal opportunity for the United States, which won the first three Olympic softball tournaments, compiling a record of 24-4 before being upset by Japan in the 2008 final. Cuba won three of the five baseball gold medals....

Samaritan Field in Knoxville, Tennessee, is a community baseball field that has been brought back to life and subsequently maintained by passionate, baseball-loving volunteers. In August, field director Matthew Peters arrived at the field to see that the shed which housed all of their equipment had been burned down, and their lawn mower was stolen. According to a report by WVLT Local 8, when the group of volunteers first found Samaritan field, it was overgrown with weeds and grass and lacked a fence. The volunteers mowed a path, hauled 13 loads of brush, installed a fence, and filled a sinkhole to...

For more than a quarter-century, Stokely Field — plopped inside a modest baseball facility on the northeast side of Indianapolis — has been the place where little boys' dreams take off. The field that sent them to the Little League World Series. Now Little League International says it will vacate Stokely Field and its Central Region headquarters at 46th Street and Mitthoeffer Road and head to a shinier, bigger "more adequate facility." “(We are) currently in search of a new location that will offer adequate facilities, strong infrastructure and a supporting community that appreciates and understands the ideals of Little League," said Stephen D. Keener, Little League president and CEO, in a statement...

For the average baseball fan tuning into the Little League World Series for the first time to watch our Canyon Lake All-Star team compete, there may be some surprises about how the game is played — and officiated. The rule book for Little League games may be thicker and meatier than one would expect, since it is a long-established game played by children, but a number of rules are different compared to Major League Baseball. Ultimately, the rules are in place to ensure that young players do not get hurt, and that they learn to play the game with a...