Editor’s note: This is the latest story in an occasional series about former professional baseball players living in the suburbs. Jack Perconte’s Major League Baseball debut was an inauspicious one.

Babe Ruth`s cinematic baseball biography says that as long as there is a bat, a ball and a boy, there will be baseball. Jack Perconte, age 34 and a retired major leaguer, goes along with that. But the ...

Perconte, who coaches softball and baseball, has written a thoughtful guide for the “countless kindhearted people” who are trying to coach and inspire athletes in youth sports, which he believes are ...

A lot of books pass my way, and this is the time of year to catch up on baseball reading. Some of these books are instructional and most have something interesting to offer. There is a hitting book on ...

To avoid having regrets later and to reach one's potential, a great work ethic is mandatory in sports. Legendary coach John Wooden said, "Many athletes have tremendous God-given gifts. ..