When your son or daughter starts to rip home runs out of the park, you’ll know it’s soon time they will be moving up to the next level of play, outgrowing their current baseball/softball field.
I saw it happen a few weeks ago. Dan Quinn, a seventh-grader, hit a nice homerun for the Auburn Braves junior high team during a [...]
Very seldom do I run into parents of athletes I’ve photographed while working here at The Telegraph. It’s even more rare to meet the parent of a player who remembers my name 8 years later.
I have to write down people’s names with my memory. A couple weeks ago I met the mother of a former Alvirne High School soccer [...]
Do you wish you could do something for the soldiers in Iraq? Here’s a way to give them some enjoyment is their down time at war. Send a baseball glove.
I received an email third-hand from the Jacksons in Litchfield. They run the NH Grizzlies baseball program. She received it from a teacher at Hudson Memorial [...]
Welcome to Raising Athletes, a blog for families involved in sports. I'm Bob Hammerstrom, a staff photographer and multimedia producer at The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H. I'm a parent of an athlete involved in AAU and high school sports. You can contact me at: bhammerstrom@
nashuatelegraph.com. Please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments as well.