Beginning in 1936, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he held a large number of leadership positions including president of the senior class, secretary of the student council, president of the community fund-raising group, a member of the editorial board of the school newspaper, and captain of both the varsity baseball and soccer teams.

Josh Byrnes was promoted from senior vice president of baseball operations to replace Hoyer.

Brian was on the football team as a quarterback, played baseball and was a cross-country runner in his senior year.

An All-District 6-5A performer in both football and baseball at Hahnville High School ... coached by Lou Valdin ... completed 63 percent of his passes for 2, 219 yards and 29 touchdowns as a senior ... led Hahnville to a 9-3 record in 2007 ... set single-season school records for passing yards and touchdowns ... 29 touchdowns tied the River Parish record set by former LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux.

) features three baseball diamonds for little to senior league baseball and softball.

Mr. Williams did not make the Great Neck South Senior baseball team as a senior.

Located within the city are an athletic track, Australian football grounds, badminton courts, baseball diamonds, indoor basketball courts, indoor and outdoor cricket pitches, croquet turf, cycling ( velodrome and bmx track ), two 18-hole golf courses, a gymnastic centre, water bases hockey fields, the Australian Equine and Livestock Events Centre used for equine sports, eleven bowling turfs, a kart-racing track, a speedway track and a motocross track, netball courts: twelve asphalt courts, 30 grass courts and an indoor synthetic court, an inline hockey court, rugby league and union fields ( nine senior fields and seven junior fields ).

In high school, Reese was so small that he did not play baseball until senior year, at which time he weighed only 120 pounds and played just six games as a second baseman.

During his senior year he was co-captain of the football, basketball and baseball teams.

* Jon Heyman, senior baseball writer for Sports Illustrated, and MLB Network insider

He led his baseball team to the small-school state finals two years in row, winning his junior year, 1962, and losing 2 – 1 in his senior year, and was named all-county, all-conference, and all-state for both of those seasons.

Elway also excelled as a baseball player playing right field and pitcher, finishing his senior year hitting. 361 with nine home runs and 50 RBIs in 49 games and a 5 – 4 record with a 4. 51 ERA. He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the second round of the 1981 MLB draft ( 52nd overall, six spots ahead of future Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn ).

Lefty leadoff man Chase Leavitt was a senior outfielder on the 2009 Arkansas Razorbacks baseball team.

Hardy played baseball as a child and throughout high school, but had stopped by his senior year.

As a senior he hit. 440 for the baseball team, was named an All-State tight end with the football team, and played forward with the basketball team.

In baseball, as a senior, he was an All-Dade County selection.

In baseball, he led his team to the Division I North Title and the Eastern Massachusetts Championship as a senior.

He decided to concentrate on baseball in his senior year, however, and he was named the California Coaches Association Player of the Year after he batted. 369 with 11 home runs.

To assist his son, the senior Feller switched to growing a less labor intensive crop, wheat, instead of corn, to allow his son to have more time to play baseball.

After existing for 93 years, the Dundas Chiefs senior baseball team folded in 2010.

In the earliest days of baseball, however, many senior umpires always worked the plate, with Hall of Fame umpire Bill Klem being the last umpire to do so.

Sandlot baseball is senior baseball played by teams unaffiliated with major league baseball teams.

and buggies and wagons and chugging Fords kept gathering all morning, until the edges of the field were packed thick and small boys kept scampering out on the playing field to make fun of the visitors -- whose pitcher was a formidable looking young man with the only baseball cap.

Baseball was surely the national game in those days, even though professional baseball may have been merely a business.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

-- Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball.

It was only about the size of a baseball ; ;

One of the persistent myths of baseball history is that Doubleday invented the game in 1839, although he was in West Point at the time.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

" It concluded by saying, " in the years to come, in the view of the hundreds of thousands of people who are devoted to baseball, and the millions who will be, Abner Doubleday's fame will rest evenly, if not quite as much, upon the fact that he was its inventor ... as upon his brilliant and distinguished career as an officer in the Federal Army.

Furthermore, the primary testimony to the commission that connected baseball to Doubleday was that of Abner Graves, whose credibility is questionable ; a few years later, he shot his wife to death and was committed to an institution for the criminally insane for the rest of his life.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

Albert Goodwill Spalding ( Byron, Illinois September 2, 1850 – September 9, 1915 in Point Loma, San Diego, California ) was a professional baseball player, manager and co-founder of A. G. Spalding sporting goods company.

Although the National Association held on for a few more seasons, it was no longer recognized as the premier organization for professional baseball.

He and his brother sold baseball gloves, and wearing one himself was good for business.

Spalding also founded the Baseball Guide, which at the time was the most widely-read baseball publication.

" The project, later called the Mills Commission, concluded that " Base Ball had its origins in the United States " and " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence available to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, N. Y., in 1839.