A beautiful day for baseball on the Princeton campus

We won’t have many more sunny, warm days like the one we had today. With the temperature in the low 80s and puffy white clouds speckling the sky, I made my way to Bill Clarke Field on the Princeton University campus to watch a baseball team intra-squad scrimmage. It was great to reconnect with Coach […]

Hot summer for Princeton baseball: Four players go pro

What a summer it has been for the Princeton University baseball team. The Tigers posted a 12-31 record during the season for a .279 winning percentage. But the percentage of players turning professional is much, much higher. Pitcher Sean Episcope, who spent most of the season injured, was selected in the fifth round of the […]

Spills and thrills for the Renegades softball team

I came off the disabled list and got back onto the field with the Research Renegades softball team this week. With a game in the near-100-degrees heat Tuesday and another on cooler, cloudier Wednesday, my hands were continually switching from glove to camera to bat. We lost a tough one Tuesday, 9-8, but prevailed in […]

Switching from hardball to softball

It’s been several years since I’ve played softball, and I was excited to try my luck in the Princeton University staff league this year. I got into one game last week, then went to the disabled list for three weeks on the admonition of the oral surgeon who did some work on me last Friday. […]

I put a toe back in the softball waters

It’s been years since I’ve played on a softball team, and I made my rookie debut last evening in the Princeton University league. The game was a test of my overall stamina and flexibilty, but especially a test drive of my new left knee. I did OK, although by playing catcher I was not severely […]

Trying a new angle on Princeton baseball

The dimensions of each baseball field rarely change, and when I’m shooting games I want to make sure I don’t overlook some new vantage points that I hadn’t tried before. At today’s Brown-Princeton doubleheader, I knew I’d have time to try something different. Inspiration struck in the nightcap, when Jacob Faulkner started for the Tigers. […]

Weather cold, bats hot at Princeton-Rider baseball game

Most years that I can recall, Princeton plays a mid-week, non-conference game against Rider University. The Broncs play at Sonny Pitaro Field on the campus in Lawrence Township, roughly 8 miles from Princeton’s campus. On Wednesday, I had a late meeting at work but was able to drive to the Rider campus in time to […]

Princeton baseball is back home

Princeton and other college baseball teams in the Northeast typically start their seasons on long road trips down South, where the weather is warmer and a bit more predictable than it is on campus. That was the case again for Princeton, and I had to wait until this weekend for their home opener series and […]

The thrill of a walk-off win

Last weekend, I left Bill Clarke Field a few innings before Princeton scored a walk-off win against Harvard. On Saturday, I got a second chance, as Princeton defeated Penn with a walk-off 3-2 victory. With the score 2-2 in the bottom of the ninth inning, Jake Kernodle hit a grounder to the Penn second baseman, […]

On becoming a fan of women’s college basketball

In less enlightened decades in my life, I ignored women’s college basketball. I won’t reprise the dopey tropes that played through my head those many years that kept me from paying any attention to the women’s games. Older and wiser, I’ve become a fan, and it wasn’t Caitlin Clark of the University of Iowa who […]