What could be more fun than relaxing at the park, watching future Major Leaguers (25 already from the M-Braves) and laughing at loads of extra entertainment?
Braves 49-year-old GM Steve DeSalvo admits he’s partial to a night with the M-Braves.
But when he’s not running Mississippi’s AA farm club for the Atlanta Braves (a 365-day, year-round job), DeSalvo loves watching his children play.
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Baseball is the safest sport for children to play, but it’s not without risk of injury.
The pitcher is the most likely to develop injuries. Youth baseball pitchers risk elbow problems due to pressure on joints because of repetitive pitching motion, bad pitching mechanics, excessive pitch counts and poor pitch selection.
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Jackson Prep’s Head Baseball Coach Preaches Bunting to His Championship Team.
Prep’s baseball team took the MPSA state championship last year because of good talent, strong coaching, and a commitment to play the bunting game whenever necessary.
“Coaches and players ought to treat the bunting game as integral to their offense,” says Prep’s Chuck Box. “At Jackson Prep, we preach that mindset.” With 15 years of coaching experience, Box played his college ball at Tennessee’s Freed-Hardeman University. He was head baseball coach at Itawamba Community College and an assistant coach at Mississippi College. Box rattles off facts about how a strong bunting game can help a team and individual players. Read more »
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Former Ole Miss star Seth Smith, 25, stepped into the batter’s box last October 28 with the world watching him. All his dreams were coming true. He had excelled in baseball at Jackson’s Hillcrest Christian High School and at Ole Miss. Now he was batting for the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series! “It was an unbelievable feeling,” Seth told The Sporting Spiritrecently. “I was on top of the world, living every kid’s dream.”
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Fall hunting is cranking up. It’s Mississippians’ favorite family sport. Here’s some thoughts from Toxey Haas on how to make your children’s hunting trips as rewarding as possible.
You want your children to hunt because they want to do it.
Don’t put so much emphasis on your child killing or a trophy. Conventional sports like football or baseball are results-oriented and good ways for youth to learn about life; but be careful that hunting does not become first and foremost results-oriented.
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School is in full swing. Mississippians are tailgating at football games or hitting the woods chasing that big buck.
Baseball has moved to the backburner.
Perfect! Now may be the best time to work on your boy’s baseball game.
A growing number of youth baseballers use this season to keep their boy’s baseball skills in sync while improving in a relaxed environment.
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The Miriam-Webster Dictionary defines a “sport” as “a source of diversion” or a “physical activity engaged in for pleasure.” Therefore, hunting is a sport. (Pretty swift logic.)
But it’s more than a sport. Hunting is hard to define, but may go something like this: “A chance to connect with God’s creation and to learn life’s lessons in the process (and, yes, to kill some food).”
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Casey is hiding in a deer stand in Copiah County when he sees “maybe twenty” out in the field.
And it is only 2 o’clock in the afternoon.
Consumed by camo, his wire-rimmed glasses sliding off his nose, the strapping teen preens in an orange vest. Casey—finally—is deer hunting.
“It feels wonderful,” his country drawl proclaims to his partner, Melvin.
Casey is mentally challenged. But on this particular day, he is all hunter.
“I feel ready to kill a deer.”
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Carl Fox Haas was always telling a young Toxey during their hunts in the woods, “You got to walk faster and you got to pick up your feet.”
The outdoors was the boy’s classroom; his father, legendary hunter Fox, was Toxey’s master teacher.
“You’re making too much noise,” the father would say as they prowled toward the sound of a gobbler.
Toxey’s time with Fox shaped him for life. “I grew up following him around the woods,” recalls the 48-year-old founder of American’s biggest hunting brand, Mossy Oak Camo, based in West Point, Mississippi.
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