If the old adage that pitching wins championships holds true, first-year Mitchell High School baseball coach Scot Wilcox should be feeling pretty good about his team's chances within what looks to be a hotly contested Class 6A, District 7 field. ...more

February 6, 2008

The past, present and future of East Bay High School baseball recently met on the same field for the first time. ...more

January 26, 2008

AVON PARK — Think back to high school baseball last season. Picture Avon Park's Johnny Sedlock's curve ball striking out batter after batter or Sebring's J.T. Tomlinson getting a timely hit. Or remember Blue Streak hurler Chaz Abeln pitching a complete game to get his team into the state's final four. Now picture all those kids and more from the area making the same plays for the South Florida Community College Panther team. "That's magic," said Sebring's Corey Ritter. ...more

January 25, 2008

About five dozen of the most prolific power hitting high school baseball players from Canada, Germany and all 50 states will participate in the International High School Power Showcase home run derby at 10 a.m. today at Tropicana Field. ...more

January 5, 2008

They won't take the field for their first game until January, but coaches and players on the Lennard High School baseball team are hard at work for the upcoming season. ...more

November 10, 2007

LAKE PLACID –– Taking advantage of perfect weather and ideal scoring conditions, the 111 players in Saturday's Lake Placid High School Baseball Fundraiser golf scramble made their share of birdies. ...more

October 15, 2007

OPENING Elizabeth: The Golden Age *½ Cate Blanchett reprises her regal role as Queen Elizabeth I for this lavish mixture of historical fact, romance-novel melodrama and ornate costumery. Review, Page 5. 115 minutes (PG-13; violence, sexuality and nudity) ...more

October 10, 2007

The West Tampa Little League complex, spawning ground for baseball talent sprinkled across the major leagues, has gotten a big-time renovation thanks to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and a handful of local businesses. ...more

September 26, 2007

TAMPA - The West Tampa Little League complex, long considered the spawning ground for local baseball talent that has sprinkled the major leagues with players for decades, has gotten a big-time renovation, thanks to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and a handful of local businesses. Officials called the six-month project a "mini-renaissance," after years of ebbing participation by the region's talented young ballplayers, and injected about $100,000 in money and work to make improvements. ...more

September 25, 2007

Plant junior baseball player Mychal Givens recently returned from Ixtapa, Mexico, where he helped the USA Junior National Baseball Team win a bronze medal at the 2007 COPABE 'AAA' Pan American Championships. He was joined on the team by Clearwater Central Catholic senior Ryan Weber. On Wednesday, the Tribune caught up with Givens at Plant High for a quick Q&A. ...more

September 6, 2007