All Entries in the "Product Reviews" Category
New Online Baseball Training: Now Performance for Guaranteed Improvement
Combining physical, mental, and baseball skills are necessary for elite performance on the diamond, but how is that attained, practiced, improved and honed? There are trainers you can visit and books you can read, but they can be costly and time consuming. Now there is an interactive educational website that combines the skills needed to [...]
Baseball Pitching Velocity Analysis
This video will show you the proper way (mechanically speaking) to optimize a pitcher’s velocity on the mound. They claim to be able top get the user to add 5 – 10 mph on their fastball in 16 weeks or less! Visit http://topvelocity.net for a FREE Pitching velocity analysis NOW! Help support Baseball Reflections and [...]
Try Our Free 1-Day Fantasy Baseball FreeRoll Hosted by DraftStreet.com
Baseball season has arrived and it’s time for fantasy baseball. But not the average, full-season, six-month type that seems to never end. I’m talking about a one-night showdown on Friday, May 13th. Yes, Friday the 13th! We have teamed up with DraftStreet.com to offer an exclusive free contest to BaseballReflections.com readers. The freeroll will [...]
Ozzie Guillen Joins GameSlam As New “Slambassador”
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE Guillen to Compete with Fans in the Hot New Sports Prediction Game, Offer Strategy Tips and More HIGHLAND PARK, Illinois, – Game Time Live announced a new fan for the company’s exciting real-time social sports prediction game, GameSlam (www.gameslam.com). Ozzie Guillen, the candid World Series-winning manager for the Chicago White Sox, has [...]
A Review of an 11” Middle Infielders Baseball Glove from PM Custom Gloves
This season in my over thirty baseball league (I play 2B) I hope to feature this 11” Stripes Pro Series PM Custom Glove in Kip Leather thanks to the kind people at PM Custom Gloves. In order to bring you this review, they allowed me to design my own custom glove for this very reason. [...]
B is for Baseball: Alphabet Cards; A Product Review
Artist Doug Keith has tried to make a solution for a problem many baseball fans across the country face in regards to raising their young ones. Often parents of America’s Pastime are left asking themselves, “How can I bring the game I love to my children at a young age in a [...]
My Review on Mattingly Baseball Bats with their V-Grip™ Technology
After being away from the game of baseball as a player (in an organized league) for over 20 years, I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to catch up to fastballs in excess of 80 mph anymore. I took the plunge and signed up to play in my first over thirty baseball (NOT softball) [...]
The Vibro-Belt Was Not As Good As Seen On TV
In an attempt to get in better shape for the 2011 baseball season, the kind people at Wayfair sent me the Vibro-Belt. I have to admit that I was skeptical going into this review and upon trying it out, I wasn’t disappointed. Now if you just wanted something that would give you a good message, [...]
Mizuno World Win Series P/3B Glove Review
GWW1203 The Basics from Mizuno The Mizuno GWW1203 is a baseball glove with a Tartan web design (closed back) and ProFlex finger inserts in a pro style pattern. It comes specially tanned in a retro leather for a soft, supple feel for durability allowing for a quicker breaking in period. In fact, it comes nearly [...]
2010 Red Sox Charity Wines Launch Party
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch party of Zinfandellsbury (a Red Zinfandel from Ellsbury) and Chardon-K (a Chardonnay from Beckett) which are charity wines from Longball Cellars. If you are not familiar with the Red Sox charity wines the players do not profit a single dime; rather, 100% of their [...]
Fathead Jr. Daily Sweepstakes by Fathead/Smile.ly
I know what you’re saying, what in the world is a Fathead Jr. anyway? I know I was when I was first contacted to help promote this sweepstakes! In layman’s terms, a Fathead is a life-size wall decals done in superb quality High Def images that are safe for walls as they peel ‘n stick [...]
A Review of Swenson Baseball’s SN8 Infielder’s Glove
This is a first for a Baseball Reflections product review in two ways. First, this was the first review done from an independent glove maker, the Swenson Baseball Company and a demo model glove. But before we get to the the review, here’s a little info about them from their About Swenson page: Established in [...]
A Baseball Card Artist: What he Does & Why
Baseball cards have been a part of “America’s national pastime” since the late 1800s. In a sport that loves it’s past as much as it’s present, baseball cards have become a big part of recording the game’s history and traditions. What’s more American than a kid collecting baseball cards? Riding your bike to the store [...]
BOSTON BASEBALL CHARITY WINES RETURN
JACOBY ELLSBURY & JOSH BECKETT MAKE ROSTER OVERVIEW Debuting from Longball Cellars are charity wines for Boston baseball stars Jacoby Ellsbury and Josh Beckett. The players do not profit a single dime. Instead, 100% of their proceeds will raise big league dollars for local charities: Jacoby Ellsbury: ZinfandEllsbury – benefiting the Navajo Relief Fund, Project [...]
Akadema’s Praying Mantis Catcher’s Mitt, Designed by Hall of Famer Gary Carter
Here is the next installment in my series of recommended Akadema Gloves. This, like the last one earlier this month (the Prodigy AOZ 91) was designed by a Hall of Famer, this time, catcher Gary Carter who use to play for the Expos, Mets, Giants and Dodgers before finishing his playing career back with the [...]
A WholesaleKeychains.com Giveaway c/o Baseball Reflections
Once again Baseball Reflections is teaming up with Wholesalekeychains.com to giveaway keychains. This time we will be giving away 3 keychains in the the following categories (one keychain from each category). This time around we will be doing a straight drawing. Digital Photo Keychains and Keyrings To see their selection of Digital Photo Keychains and [...]
Friday Night Links
For the next month or so we will be highlighting some products, companies or sites in an attempt to supply you, the loyal Baseball Reflections readers, with some holiday gift ideas for the baseball player(s) in your life. Meyvn Baseball Company If you’re like me, you’ll want to know why co-founders Richie Benes and Merrell [...]
Product Review: Akadema’s ProSoft 1B Mitt: AJJ 254
When my contact at Akadema asked me if I would do another review if sent another glove I jumped at the chance! This time I asked for a first baseman‘s glove as I have always been fascinated with them for reasons unknown to even myself. Maybe it’s because when I was growing up, my dad [...]
Introducing The Funnel AFL 11 from Akadema
There are a few scents that I know of that really wake me up. One is the smell of freshly cut grass (especially that of Fenway Park as smelled from behind the Green Monster), freshly cut wood, the smell of a new leather baseball glove and a certain perfume that my wife wears which I [...]
Reminder: Keychain Raffle Has Only 8 Days Left!
Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, Baseball Reflections Keychain Raffle sponsored by WholesaleKeychain.com. We will be raffling off 9 MLB team keychains. There will be links below to the WholesaleKeychain.com page of the 9 teams (these links will open up in a new tab or page) selected for this raffle. There will be [...]
Baseball Reflection’s MLB Keychain Raffle
Welcome to the first, and hopefully not last, Baseball Reflections Keychain Raffle sponsored by WholesaleKeychain.com. We will be raffling off 9 MLB team keychains. There will be links below to the WholesaleKeychain.com page of the 9 teams (these links will open up in a new tab or page) selected for this raffle. There will be [...]
Wholesale Keychains Product Review & 10% off Coupon
When I was first approached by Jeff at Wholesale Keychains and he told me he wanted to send Baseball Reflections some sample keychains to review, I have to admit that my first thought was, “Wow! I really need a new Red Sox Keychain”. But then Jeff later told me that we could also give some [...]
Akadema® Unveils The Patriot Series
Happy Independence Day! Seeing that Baseball is our national past time, I am thrilled to endorse Akadema® Professional: A leading baseball and softball equipment based out of Hawthorne, NJ! They make the gloves that players such as the Phillies CF Shane Victorino, the Dodgers LF Manny Ramirez, and Team USA Softball P Monica Abbott (just [...]
Amazon VOD “SPACEMAN: A BASEBALL ODYSSEY”
Image by Paul Keleher via Flickr I recently was asked to help promote a documentary that was just released on Amazon VOD. It’s called SPACEMAN: A BASEBALL ODYSSEY. Here’s the synopsis: “Throughout the 1970′s, Bill Lee was the ultimate gonzo baseball player, a brilliant left-handed pitcher who flouted every manager orfront office executive who tried [...]
Product Review: MLB Insiders Club Fleece Blanket
During cold weather games, many fans bring a blanket with them to the stadium to stay warm. The MLB Insiders Club has recently come out with their own blankets, presumably to be used in this manner, to be passed out to their members. The fleece blankets have a common design, but one can acquire it [...]
The Bob Feller Story: A DVD Review
Bob Feller seems to be an almost forgotten baseball name outside of the city of Cleveland, but throughout the DVD, the viewers are reminded that he was without a doubt the greatest pitcher of his time and his accomplishments were such that he should be mentioned in the same sentences as Ted Williams and Joe [...]
Baseball Reflections Product Review: ABC Sports-Sports Master
This product claims that sports fans can “resolve nearly any sports argument with the push of a button.” While this may not be completely true, the Sports Master does provide a unique way to test one’s knowledge of sports while on the move. While the baseball trivia is no doubt in depth, it also features [...]
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