I wonder how many kids will be heading to the city pools this week after watching Michael Phelps capture his eighth gold medal in the Olympic games?
It’s a dream for most athletes just to be good enough to make it to the Olympics. But I’m wondering if it would have been disappointing if the last [...]
Now that your son or daughter is finishing up their last year of Cal Ripken or Little League, are you planning for the next stage of their youth baseball career? You should be!
It’s only mid-summer and baseball is wrapping up. In just a month our kids will be back in school. High school football practices [...]
This summer when my wife’s parents flew out to visit, I used my nifty Red Sox bottle opener to pry open a brew for my father-in-law. It plays an announcer’s voice saying “Way back, way back, homerun. Those crazy Red Sox did it again…” I thought I had the coolest bottle opener in the neighborhood until Christy and [...]
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.