Author: Vinny Messana

Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Welcome to our first edition of our newest segment. This will be a collaboration of the best emails we received of the week in regards to players, teams, and anything else connected to Long Island baseball. We hope you enjoy… Why do you hate Nassau County high school baseball? It’s ridiculous how much attention you showed the Suffolk Teams and almost nothing...

Photo Credit: Mike Norkin San Diego‘s 2012 1st-round pick, Travis Jankowski is one step closer to fulfilling his dream and becoming the fourth former Sea Wolve to appear in the MLB this season. After dominating Double-A to the tune of a .316/.395/.401 triple slash line with 23 stolen bases, the Pennsylvania native was promoted to Triple-A El Paso by the San Diego Padres front office. He has ...

Photo Credit: Christine Heeren All he remembers is lying on the ground, holding his knee while he was in the most pain of his life. “I was on third base and there was a play at the plate and I went to stop short and get in a rundown when my whole knee buckled,” said the Sachem North grad. Despite the tremendous pain, Dowling‘s second baseman was still holding out hope that it was...

We will be beginning a new weekly segment on Baseball on the Island, and it will be a mailbag. You can feel free to send questions regarding anything related to players, teams, coaches, favorite moments of the year, etc. Email baseballontheisland@gmail.com for a chance to be featured in the first edition. Depending on the volume of emails, we may switch to a live podcast in the later weeks.

(This piece originally ran on July 14, 2014 but it will be republished periodically) “It’s a little worse than we anticipated,” he said. “We’re going to shut you down for a while.” That’s when you go from optimistic to something similar to getting punched in the gut. From experience, that’s when you throw away all the preconceived timetables you orig...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjnQhXUvG4] Do you love playing baseball? If you do and you are between the ages of 7-18 make sure to be a part of Hofstra’s Summer Baseball Clinic! The clinic was rated as “one of the top five in the country” by Baseball America–widely regarded as the premier amateur baseball publication in the country. The instructors are top notch...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GXpr2tJhLM]Early on it looked like it would be a slug fest in the Hamptons All Star Game. The South All Stars took the lead in the third inning on a solo shot to right center field by Kyle Colletta of Northern Kentucky. That was quickly erased when Eddie Haus of St. Mary’s smacked a long two-run HR to left center field to give the North All Stars a 2-...

Much like the story of the Weissheier brothers, the Going brothers never intended to play at the same school. In fact, it wasn’t even clear which sport was their best. R.J., the elder of the two, actually began his college career playing baseball at the rival Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire in 2012. After transferring to Suffolk Community College, he decided he really wanted to g...

Work hard, play hard. A video posted by Marcus Stroman (@mstrooo6) on Jul 12, 2015 at 1:58pm PDT When Marcus Stroman tore his ACL during a Spring Training drill on March 10, every headline the following day included the words “out for 2015”. Just four months later and the Pat-Med grad has other plans. His father told me that he is prepared to return to the major leagues at “some ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjnQhXUvG4] Do you love playing baseball? If you do and you are between the ages of 7-18 make sure to be a part of Hofstra’s Summer Baseball Clinic! The clinic was rated as “one of the top five in the country” by Baseball America–widely regarded as the premier amateur baseball publication in the country. The instructors are top notch...