By Joe Palladino Republican-American 3/31/2009 When the ball buzzed past you, it was a blur. Speed guns timed his fastball in the minor leagues at 96 mph. But it wasn’t just the speed of the pitch that worried you. …
Jim Arline: City strikeout king made batters shake Read more →
Monday, December 22, 2008 12:36 AM EST By GARRETT DALE It seems appropriate, I guess, that I should say something about the Twisters leaving Torrington. A lot of other people have had their chance, but my way of looking at …
Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:00 AM EDT By PETER WALLACE If you’re the one that loves to holler at them at Fuessenich Park because hollering at the ump is part of Americana, or because you genuinely believe they “stink”, you …
PETER WALLACE, Register Citizen Staff, 08/22/2008 Seven of us – Lou Fracasso, Jeff Dombrowski, Scott Arigoni, Tom Downey, Bob McCarthy, Lefty Simmons and I – were inducted into the second class of the Tri-State Baseball League’s Hall of Fame Sunday …
Tri-State League Sets an Example to Follow — or Join Read more →
© Republican-American (Joe Pallodino), 8/5/2008 The lively little Web page makes an audacious statement in bold letters right at the top of the home page: Northwest Connecticut ‘s premiere amateur wooden bat league. That’s a throw down if ever there …
© Republican-American, 6/17/2008 At 11 o’clock in the morning the day after his last baseball game of the season for UConn, Pierre LePage was home in Wolcott relaxing the best way he knew how: playing baseball in the Tri-State Baseball …
© Republican-American & Register-Citizen, 6/8/2008 Junior Nick Johnston hit a gargantuan grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning in front of several thousand Thomaston fans, turning a one-run deficit into a three-run lead, and the …
McMahon Coaches Thomaston to Class S Championship Read more →
© Republican-American, June 6, 2008 WATERBURY, Conn. – Post Universirty rising senior third baseman Corey Huffine ( Colorado Springs , Colo. /McCook C.C.) will play summer ball for the Torrington Twisters of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). Huffine, …
Huffine to Play Summer Baseball for Torrington Twisters Read more →
© Rick Wilson – Republican-American, June 5, 2008 It was a glorious time, a time of youthful ambition and dreams touching reality. Jay Fredlund loved his days as a Boston Red Sox farmhand from 1979 to 1983. But those days …
Thomaston Fredlunds Have the Right Bloodline When it Comes to Pitching Read more →
© Republican-American, May 12, 2008 WATERBURY, Conn. – Ray Ricker, Post University assistant baseball coach and Burlington Hunters all-star catcher, has been named head coach of the Protocall STARZ, a member of the Atlantic Baseball Confederation Collegiate League (ABCCL), a …
