With one phone call, years of long bullpens, early mornings, and summer nights under the lights can all pay off. That call came for pitcher Mikey Fekete (‘27), who has announced his verbal commitment to play baseball at Virginia Polytechnic Institute...

With the Phillies now moving on to the National League Championship Series to face the Arizona Diamondbacks, Red October is sweeping across the entire Philadelphia area with excitement as the Phillies try to make it back to the World Series for the second...

Miracle League is an organization that provides children with disabilities a chance to play baseball. This organization began in 1998 when Eddie Bagwell, Rockdale Youth Baseball Association’s coach, invited a child in a wheelchair to play baseball on...

For too long, Major League Baseball has experienced problems with the strike zone. Strikes are being called balls and balls are being called strikes seemingly every game at an alarming rate. Managers and players have been ejected, fined and suspended...

Year round, Joshua Janove (‘22) is spotted standing tall and competitive on the field, with the bold, pronounced digits of “11”, presented proudly on his back. Off and especially on the field, Janove is noted to be a key athlete who has stood out...

2019 was more than just a year to remember for the East Baseball team. It was a year that saw accomplishment after accomplishment after accomplishment come in for Coach Speller and the Cougars in his first year as head coach. Their fantastic season led...

The dugouts are gaining dust. The field’s grass is overgrowing. There have been no cracks of the bat or snaps of the glove since the last day of tryouts. The sunflower seeds and “Big League Chew” will be stashed away until the troublesome quarantine...

Baseball season is here and the expectations are higher than ever with all of the accomplishments of last year's boys varsity baseball. But before the season starts, around 55 boys will try out all hoping to get a spot on the varsity team, but only...

Nate Mulberg (‘10) was never the average high school student. He excelled in baseball, ran cross country, wrote for Eastside and ultimately, was recruited to play baseball for the University of Rochester. So, it was not surprising when Mulberg was...

If John Sterling, radio broadcaster for the New York Yankees, was calling the 2017 Home Run Derby at Marlins Park Monday night, his voice might never have survived. The Yankees’ rookie sensation, Aaron Judge, at 25-years old; six feet, seven inches...

Coach Erik Radbill puts an emphasis on his players being part of one big Cougar family and many alumni take this to heart. This proves true as multiple alumnus have come back to help out with the baseball program years after they graduated. East baseball...

    1. NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship   The National Championship game pitted basketball powerhouse and the first seeded UNC against the second seeded Villanova. After both teams stormed through the first five rounds with...

Every year, around the middle of July, as the temperature becomes consistently scalding, it becomes more and more evident that summer is in full motion. To baseball fans, one event stands out above the rest during this time: the Major League Baseball...