For months I have waited to write this very post. I’ve debated a hundred different approaches that I could take. I thought about talking how amazing it is to walk out onto the field for the first time each year and feel the grass beneath your cleats. I could talk about the soreness you feel…
By Josh: Who influenced you to play baseball? My dad. He was a college D-1 coach for 17 years. So it was just kind of in my blood. As far as I can remember I’ve always played baseball. I probably swung the bat when I was 1 year old. It was good, he was my…
By Josh: 1. In your senior year of high school you were rated as one of the top prospects in the nation for the MLB draft. Did you feel any additional pressure to perform your senior year? How did you approach your final year in high school? As I began my senior year I understood…
By Josh: I’m a baseball junkie. I know it, my wife knows it, my daughter will learn it soon enough and I’m pretty sure those of you that read this blog have figured it out as well. I love going to games, collecting baseball cards, getting autographs and even just sitting down to talk baseball. …
By Josh: A few years ago I started taking trips to Seattle to just watch an entire series of the Mariners. A few times I would have a retreat all by myself and other times my wife and I would have little mini vacations doing this. I quickly discovered that one day of baseball doesn’t…
By Josh: A common ice breaker question I have heard over and over again is ‘if you could meet anyone in history who would it be and why?’ Instantly my mind goes to men like Abraham Lincoln, Joshua (from the Bible and whom I’m named after), and Martin Luther King Jr. For me though, I…
For anyone who knows my family you would know that I was destined to be a baseball fan. It’s hard not to be when most of my early childhood memories are being at the softball fields for my dad’s games. There was always something special about being at the fields for me as a kid.…
Yesterday WordPress put out a really cool recap of 2012 for my blog and for other MLB blogs but I wanted to go into a little more detail about the 9 Inning Know It All blog in 2012 and give everyone a look at what the hopes and plans are for 2013. Top 10 Blog…
By Josh: As I’ve mentioned in the past getting autographs for me is more about finding a connection with the game I love and the players, rather than it being about bragging rights. Now I do brag at times about some of the guys I have gotten (Ken Griffey Jr., Matt Kemp, Tommy Lasorda, and Felix…
For the past couple of years I have tried to take more photographs at baseball games. I do this for two reasons. First, because at times I have been fortunate enough to catch some great moments for individual players and have gotten the opportunity to share those moments with the players. Second, because I have…
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