Category Archives: Baseball Blog

WCAL vs. Moore League: All-Time Baseball Teams

We’ve often thought about the great baseball traditions for schools in Northern California’s West Catholic Athletic League and schools in Southern California’s Moore League. If you stop and think about players and teams from 40, 50, 60 and even more years back, there are no two leagues in California historically that come close and we’d […]

| Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Baseball Tips: Guide To Buying The Right Catcher’s Bag

Baseball, like other sports, requires a set of specific equipment for participants to play the activity correctly. For example, it might be challenging for catchers to grab a speeding fastball mid-flight without a reliable catcher’s mitt. So, it’s relatively safe to say that you’ll need the right bag to place and carry all baseball equipment, […]

| Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

18-Strikeout No-Hitter From 1956

The letter and copies of press clippings from a 1956 baseball game involving Encinal of Alameda and its rivals from Alameda was expected last week, but the article was even more interesting because of who wrote it. The letter was sent by 82-year-old Paul Dennan of Fairfield, who had called a few days earlier wondering […]

| Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

NEW CalHiSports.com Homepage

As a continuing effort to enhance user experience and provide a more dynamic entryway into all that we offer and will add in the future, the CalHiSports.com homepage has been redesigned. The infrastructure of the site’s story pages will be the same, but here are some highlights of the new homepage: 1. Easier to navigate […]

| Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Top 5 List: State’s Worldwide Icons

The coronavirus pandemic might have thrown an almighty spanner in the works of sporting events but rather than speculate over what might be, here’s a change of pace and look at some of the biggest names to have emerged from California high schools. These are five men who’ve led the world — and one who […]

| Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CIF UPDATE: Spring Sports

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. – Today the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) State Office and the 10 Section Commissioners held their annual scheduled spring meeting. The agenda included a discussion concerning the impact of COVID-19 on the 2020 CIF spring sports season. While the time may come when we have to cancel post-season events, today is not that […]

Also posted in Softball Blog | | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Importance of Sleep For Success

As a student and an athlete, your health should be at an optimum level in order for you to perform well in school. There are many challenges that you will be facing as a student, and these will not be easy to overcome if you’re not at your best as far as your well-being is […]

| Tagged , , | Leave a comment

World Series Alums: Lowest Total Ever For California

We knew it might not be a good year for ex-California high school players in the World Series when both the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees (who both have a lot of Californians on their rosters) could get to the Fall Classic. Instead, we have the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros and the […]

| Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Coming Soon: All-Decade All-State

It’s only going to be one more week until the first posts of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State All-Decade Teams are completed. Read below to see how anyone can input their opinions for this project and get a general schedule of when all of these teams are going to be released. Football: The first all-decade all-state […]

| Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

All-State Baseball/Softball Patch Lists

Congratulations to the following baseball & softball players (either sophomores or freshmen from the most recent spring season) who have been added as additional all-state honorees. We do this because there is no all-state sophomore or freshmen teams and it’s hard for very many sophomores and freshmen to get spots on the all-state underclass teams […]

Also posted in Softball Blog | | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

    Latest News

    Insider Blog