Bees Turn to Humidor to Stop Cheap HRs

The Salt Lake Bees (Triple-A, Pacific Coast League) have installed a baseball humidor at Smith’s Ballpark to keep the balls from shrinking, hardening and losing friction, which  can cause them pop off the bat for what Bees spokeman Kraig Williams calls “cheap home runs.”  Read more and view photo here.

Are Baseballs Juiced in the Cape, NACSB?

We don’t pay a lot of attention to player statistics around here, but apparently home runs were up dramatically this season in the summer collegiate Cape Cod League and other circuits in the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball (NACSB).  NACSB members reportedly source their baseballs exclusively from the same baseball