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The Geneva Red Wings held a special ceremony Thursday night to pay tribute to their late groundskeeper John Salone. McDonough Park’s field is now “John Salone Field” as fans will notice atop the scoreboard. Salone, a community figure and a 1974 De Sales High School graduate, passed away last August at the age of 66. John’s contributions to the comm...

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Perhaps the best moment of Mike Piazza's career was his home run in the New York Mets' first home game post-9/11. With his Mets down 2-1 to the Atlanta Braves, Piazza drilled a no-doubt two-run homer that proved to be the game-winner.  It's now considered one of the greatest home runs in Mets history, allowing New Yorkers to forget for just a momen...

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Penn State has a new baseball coach following Rob Cooper’s resignation back in May. Earlier today, it was reported by Kendall Rogers of the college baseball website D1 Baseball that PSU was hiring Boston College head coach Mike Gambino for the same position in Happy Valley. Aside from having a badass name and fulfilling PSU’s quota of having at lea...

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In the nascent days of the internet, long before every imaginable piece of pop culture was just a click or two away, a crudely constructed website offered its visitors instructions for finding a musical experience that came with a boastful promise: “Your world will never be the same.” To achieve this moment of transcendence, visitors had to dial a...

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A celebration to recognize Louis Polli’s legendary baseball career and official designation by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the first Italian-born ballplayer to play in the major leagues will take place Saturday, July 8, when the Vermont Mountaineers baseball team in Montpelier will host a Louis “Crip” Polli Night. This long overdue recogn...

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The affectionate documentary "It Ain't Over" has a split personality. Longtime baseball fans can revel in black-and-white archival footage showing Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra in his prime at bat and behind the plate in that era's baggy flannel uniforms. The universe of non-fans can savor Berra as a pop-culture legend, thanks mainly to his trove...

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A big league promotion that caught Jonny DeLuca by surprise last weekend came as no shock to the Dodgers outfielder’s former coach at Agoura High. Anthony Chevrier saw this coming nearly a decade ago, when DeLuca was a 5-foot-9, 165-pound wisp of a freshman who started in right field and hit ninth for a 2014 varsity team that sent 10 players to Div...

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Florida baseball two-way standout Jac Caglianone has been named one of three finalists for the 2023 Golden Spikes Award, as announced by USA Baseball on Wednesday afternoon.  The winner of the 45th Golden Spikes Award will be announced on June 25 during a special presentation on ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" at 2:30 p.m. ET, leading into game two of th...

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The seventh-inning stretch just got a little cheesier by baseball standards. On Saturday, the FerryHawks introduce “Mozzarella Madness,” a celebration of all things curd-ish from cheese ball tosses to lessons on how to make the supple, yummy stuff. Italo Perito from Italo’s A&S Fine Foods of West Brighton and Port Richmond will lead cooking demos s...

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Paul D’Alessio decided he needed to fuel the Quincy University baseball team with some Italian power this week. So Tuesday, he assembled the kind of feast a loving nonna would serve to her family at Sunday dinner. Pasta, meatballs, sausage, chicken cacciatore, etc. It was the kind of meal where you wipe the marinara off your chin and push yourself...

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