The mark of a true professional is the ability to remember where you left your glove. -- Anonymous, often attributed to John Updike I bronzed my father's baseball glove after he died. It sits on a ...

Marucci Sports launched two decades ago with a secondhand lathe in a backyard shed, where one of its founders churned out perfectly balanced wooden baseball bats by hand. It's about as old school an ...

As an only child whose friends lived far away, I spent many afternoons in the backyard playing catch alone. I’d throw a tennis ball, a racquetball or one of those dense rubber balls from the grocery ...