by Tom Swyers | Nov 12, 2013 | Saving Babe Ruth, Uncategorized
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it might be interesting to revisit a moment in history when baseball was almost lost due to war.It was a few weeks after Pearl Harbor when baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote President Franklin Roosevelt and...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 21, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, The Big Picture, Uncategorized
Christopher Lane, a promising college baseball player, was murdered by a gunshot to the back the other day and the tragedy has prompted me to do some thinking. One of the teens arrested was reported to have said that he and his accomplices were “bored” and “decided to...
by Tom Swyers | Jul 31, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth
My upcoming novel, Saving Babe Ruth, revolves around the idea that community baseball is worth saving. You can read more about it here. Sure, I like to watch baseball all the way from the youth level to the major league level. I like to coach it too. But my passion...
by Tom Swyers | Oct 31, 2012 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball
The recent arrest of Robert Sanfilippo reveals a great deal about travel baseball. Going forward, I will occasionally draw upon on the Sanfilippo story to illustrate some points about youth sports and youth baseball. Today I’m going to comment on one aspect of...
