What do you do when Little League is over?
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Is your son or daughter finishing up their Little League season? Are you wondering where to go from here? Do they have the potential to play high school sports or beyond?
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Archive for the 'NH Grizzlies' CategoryWhat do you do when Little League is over?Posted by bob hammerstrom Is your son or daughter finishing up their Little League season? Are you wondering where to go from here? Do they have the potential to play high school sports or beyond? Queen city passes Pay-to-Play for school sportsPosted by bob hammerstrom The Manchester School District passed a budget including extracurricular user fees for the city’s schools. Pay-to-play has spread to the queen city like a disease among behives. Flip flop flub or hit by foul ball…Which hurt more?Posted by bob hammerstrom I wasn’t there when team manager, A.J. Jackson injured his ankle walking up a set of stairs in flip flops. But, I can say it wasn’t his fault for not moving fast enough when my son, Brandon ripped a foul ball down the third base line, hitting A.J.’s ankle in the same spot. Double-Ouch! NH Grizzlies collecting donations for fire victims from LitchfieldPosted by bob hammerstrom The NH Grizzlies baseball club is collecting donations for the Gerossie family of Litchfield, who lost their home to fire early this morning. Tryouts begin today for NH spring sportsPosted by bob hammerstrom Interested in playing a high school sport this spring in New Hampshire? Chances are you tryouts will begin today after school. Are Nashua Athletics Dwindling?Posted by bob hammerstrom One of the school budget-trimming proposals out there will eliminate the current junior high athletics as they are today, and replace them with intramural-style sports. After reading a letter sent out to parents of Nashua junior high students (provided to me by a friend), I wondered who is behind this shift - or shaft as many [...] NH Grizzlies to hold baseball camp in DerryPosted by bob hammerstrom Are you looking for a winter baseball camp for your child in southern New Hampshire? My son, Brandon attended the camp below, before the start of his last year in Little League. He convinced himself he would work hard and make the NH Grizzlies 13-year-old traveling baseball team. Well, he did, and he’s now on [...] Baseball in October - Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!Posted by bob hammerstrom There’s almost nothing better than sitting at the ballpark for a wet, cold and windy baseball tournament. You know the kind, where the rain blows across the field sideways, the hot chocolate is cooled off by the time you walk back to the frozen metal bleachers, and you’re wearing so many layers that you look like a sumo wrestler! Is your child ready to play AAU baseball?Posted by bob hammerstrom 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! A must-have gadget for traveling sports parentsPosted by bob hammerstrom 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 [...] About the authorWelcome 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.
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