Potter’s Pirates youth team looks to reconnect to baseball roots Under-15 team tours Md., Pa., Ohio holding baseball clinics and focusing on baseball traditions By Kaitlyn Carr, The Baltimore Sun 8:38 p.m. EDT, July 21, 2010 Author and die-hard baseball fan Jeff Potter can remember when his son, now in college, played Little League baseball, and he...

Baseball Tour Introduces Area Youth to America’s Pastime ‘For Love of the Game’ Published on: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 By Chris Grady For generations, baseball has been known as “America’s pastime.” However, in Prince George’s County — like other areas around the country — there has been a decline in interest in the sport during the...

Author Brings Tour Team to Freeport International By Paul Kogut, VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Thursday, July 22, 2010 Like a baseball club from the dusty days of the early 20th century, the Jeff Potter Tour Team has barnstormed through the region in an attempt to reconnect with a simpler era of the game. Today’s stop: the 16th Annual Freeport International...

‘Tour Team’ Finishes Up Swing at PNC Park By Keith Barnes, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, July 26, 2010 For the past month, Jeff Potter has taken his “Tour Team” of high school-aged players to ballparks all over Pennsylvania and Maryland. When the caravan finally came to a halt for its final game, though, the cars were parked at the right-field...

Clearfield Babe Ruth League All-stars Defeat Potter Baseball Tour Pirates July 7, 2010 at 7:25 AM by Fred Kavelak CLEARFIELD – Jeff Potter penned the book “Whatever Happened to Baseball?” and then decided to promote the way the game used to be – and still could be – played by organizing a one-month tour for a 15-and-under team dubbed the...

Potter Baseball Tour makes a two-day stop in Clearfield Wednesday, July 07, 2010 By Josh Mlot Sports Writer From the first note of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” to the crack of the wood bats to the murmur of fans reminiscing about their own childhood, nostalgia was in the air Tuesday at the Lawrence Township Rec Park. The inaugural Potter...

REFLECTING BACK: Potter Tour Here in EC By: Randy Senior 07/01/2010 ELLWOOD CITY – Chris Shurtz and Jeff Potter are generations apart, but their lives will forever be linked to our national pastime. Shurtz, who will be a sophomore at Lincoln High School in the fall, was selected as a 16-and-younger representative of the town of Ellwood City on the Potter...

Local Business Sponsors One of a Kind Baseball Bonanza 2nd June 2010 | Posted in Community Local business owner Steve Garland of Big Bats Café has seen a lot of changes in baseball over the years. Just a visit to his Kent Island café will demonstrate his passion for America’s Pastime. Over the years the game has definitely changed and our younger...

Barnstorming Murray visits PNC Park Damascus junior spends July playing baseball with Potter Bus Tour by James Peters | Staff Writer Like many baseball-playing high school student-athletes in Montgomery County, soon-to-be Damascus High junior Lucas Murray spent the bulk of his summer honing his fielding and hitting skills on the diamond for hours on...

Changes in youth baseball are concern Friday, July 24, 2009 By George Guido, FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH See original article at Pittsburgh Tribune Review. FREEPORT — Thursday night was the annual old-timers game at the Freeport International Invitational, but the focus was clearly on the future. Two participants, Ford City’s Denny Harriger and Ellwood...

Stepping up to the plate By: Patti Conley Beaver County Times Saturday July 24, 2010 10:39 PM BEAVER FALLS — Three Potter Pirates will be rooting for the home team this afternoon at PNC Park. If the Pittsburgh Pirates should lose to the San Diego Padres, it will be a shame. But Chris Shurtz, Joe Cordell and Nick Kaszer won’t dwell on the loss. Baseball,...