The coastal town of Pacifica, surrounded on three sides by mountains and one side by the Pacific Ocean, has a rich baseball history that dates back to the city's incorporation in 1957.
In the 1960s, its youth baseball program was formed and reared future big-leaguers Bob McClure and
The significance of team sports can be boiled down to a single day when David Mead was 13 years old and playing in San Mateo’s youth baseball program.
It was a late-spring Saturday and Mead had a game, but he also had tickets to a Day on the Green
The West Coast Federals’ track record for cultivating baseball talent can be seen just by glancing PeninsulaPrepBaseball.com’s Prime 31, the list of players to watch on the Peninsula this spring.
Serra’s Ian Josephson, Aragon’s Josh Jacobs, St. Ignatius Prep’s Archer Horn, Beau Shaffer and Chase
In the midst of the COVID 19 shutdown, the Kinetic Performance Institute opened its doors, which some might have called a curse. Erik Wagle saw it as a good thing.
“Parents were looking for things for their kids to do,” said Wagle, who founded the Morgan Hill training center in
Try to keep up because this might get confusing. John the Sign Guy, Pacifica’s flagship printer of T-shirts, stickers and banners, is run by Mike Biancalana, a lifelong Pacifican who came up as a catcher in the coastal town’s storied youth baseball leagues.
He took it over from
Since opening its doors, All In Baseball has emphasized a holistic approach to development — combining high-level baseball instruction with mentorship, leadership training, and a strong emphasis on character. The program was built on the belief that baseball can be a powerful vehicle for teaching accountability, resilience, teamwork, and confidence.
In
