For many parents, youth sports are a year-round commitment, full of early mornings, long drives and constant juggling of ...

The PLAY BALL initiative is baseball’s collective effort to encourage young people and communities to engage in baseball- or softball-related activities, including formal leagues, special events and ...

Fisher reported that baseball’s television audience skews older than that of any other major sport, and the number of kids playing baseball has been declining for decades, even though MLB’s ...

Children as young as eight are being encouraged; and I only say that so as not to say “coerced” or “forced”; to play baseball all year. Summer leagues used to be a short wind-down from ...

"To see a bunch of young kids playing baseball, especially up here at wintertime, it's kind of hard to do." It's been a little more than six weeks since Koperniak was selected to St. Louis' 40-man ...

"It will be a safe place for children to play baseball, wear uniforms, play with their peers, be on a team and hear the roar of a crowd," she said. This is a rendering of the planned Diamond of ...

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo, an outfielder with the Pittsburgh Pirates, wants to change how children usually play baseball in Japan, including the field. The major leaguer is spending 200 million yen ($1. ...