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Ingredients Roughly 50 wet baseballs Cooking Instructions Lay baseballs out on cookie sheets Bakes for 4-5 hours at 180 degrees Let cool and enjoy! Right off the top, I'm taking no real credit for this. This post is meant to spread the word that baking wet baseballs really did work. Here's the post by someone else I referenced when I decided to chance it: www.youthbaseballinfo.com/restore-wet-ruined-baseballs-with-some-time-in-the-oven/#:~:text=Heat%20the%20oven%20to%20no,any%20damage%20to%20the%20balls. Sometimes we call the weather right, sometimes we don't - we decided to hold camp Monday morning from 8am-10am despite knowing some rain was coming. The kids are just having so much fun, it's hard to cancel on them! Of course - it did end up pouring, and we ended up with a really wet bucket of baseballs. Emergency! Now, I've heard over the years that, rather than just let them be ruined and feel sorry for yourself, you can use your oven. "No big deal," coach Henry Zimmerman said yesterday, "Just bake 'em." "How long? What temperature?" "No idea. But it works." Good enough for me! Results below - it worked great. Popped them in the oven at 180 degrees, left for a softball game. Came back about 4 hours later to dry, toasty baseballs in the oven. They felt a little dried out when I took them out, but by this morning when they had cooled they were in great shape. It's not enough to encourage me to just practice every day it's wet or raining, but in an emergency this was a huge win!
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Here's a summary of what's coming up and planned for Big Fish in the next year:
Tryout Prep Camps - Mid-July (softball) and mid-August (baseball) - a piece of feedback we received was about filling the gap between the end of the competitive seasons and tryout evaluations for 2025 association teams. These fun practices are meant to fit that need - we're planning an hour of skills and drills and then a half hour of fun scrimmage. Fall Baseball League - A developmental league on Wednesdays and Sundays from the end of August to end of September that we will host at RFHS with an assist from the new facility in case of rain. As with everything we do, the goals of this are fun and development - it is more of an in house league than traveling for doubleheaders, but that allows kids to get lots of repetitions, play multiple positions, and have fun playing the game in what I consider some of the best weather of the year. And maybe the best part is that it won't conflict with flag football season! "Off Season Academy" Winter Training - starting in October, we'll be running our winter training program similar to last year. An important difference will be more of a general skills focus - our space will allow us a good opportunity to work on defense and glove work as well as hitting and throwing. We are also working on some potential collaboration to add some age-appropriate strength training as well... stay tuned on that. Off Season Teams - we are going to dip our toes into our first team or two this winter. The foundation of these teams are not Ws and Ls, but providing some additional competition games to test out winter training as we go along. Valley Sports Academy in Hallie, which is an absolute gem of a facility, offers some one-day tournaments throughout the winter. We'll be navigating winter sports schedules and everything else, but we're really excited about the possibilities here. That's a high overview of what's planned for now as we get this new space off the ground. If you have feedback and ideas, or maybe a need for us to meet that we're not covering, please don't hesitate to reach out at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you! |
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