Expert Offers Advice on Avoiding Spring Sports Injuries

New York’s baseball and softball fields will soon fill with children firing off fast balls and sliding into bases. And straining shoulders, spraining ankles, and breaking noses, too. Emergency rooms treat more than 120,000 baseball and softball injuries annually, researchers say. But many can be Read More …

Beaches and Baseball Draw Huntington Residents

  A beach cleanup and a free baseball clinic brought out participants Saturday, who enjoyed the activities and the warm, sunny weather. Town Councilwoman Joan Cergol, who has led a series of beach cleanups this weekend, drew about 60 volunteers to spruce up Centerport Beach, Read More …

Shelf Life: Baseball and Family Bonds

Breaking in a glove, going to a game, Little League — baseball lends itself to creating traditions and fostering bonds between parent and child. In their new book, Glove Story: Fathers, Sons, and the American Pastime, local authors A.J. Carter and Mark Rosenman explore how Read More …