Episode 7 – After 8 historic seasons, the most dynamic softball team of all time, gives you a candid look at what it takes to be a champion. Straight from Huntington Station, New York, this is Station Softball… The Reality Show. Starring the kinda popular internet video star, Galz, aka the Best Athlete Ever. Also starring the 2nd Worst Basketball Player Ever, Garrett Steinger. This is really as real as real gets. Video by Adam Schleichkorn of Hidden Track TV.
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How does the USA National Team hone thier defensive skills? In this DVD, you’ll see how the team prepares to defend against the best players in the world.
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Episode 6 – Start of the Regular Season – After 8 historic seasons, the most dynamic softball team of all time, gives you a candid look at what it takes to be a champion. Straight from Huntington Station, New York, this is Station Softball… The Reality Show. Starring the kinda popular internet video star, Galz, aka the Best Athlete Ever. Also starring the 2nd Worst Basketball Player Ever, Garrett Steinger. This is really as real as real gets. Video by Adam Schleichkorn of Hidden Track TV.
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Episode 5 – Start of the Regular Season – After 8 historic seasons, the most dynamic softball team of all time, gives you a candid look at what it takes to be a champion. Straight from Huntington Station, New York, this is Station Softball… The Reality Show. Starring the kinda popular internet video star, Galz, aka the Best Athlete Ever. Also starring the 2nd Worst Basketball Player Ever, Garrett Steinger. This is really as real as real gets. Video by Adam Schleichkorn of Hidden Track TV.
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Duration : 0:8:25
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Episode 4 – Bonus Footage – After 8 historic seasons, the most dynamic softball team of all time, gives you a candid look at what it takes to be a champion. Straight from Huntington Station, New York, this is Station Softball… The Reality Show. Starring the kinda popular internet video star, Galz, aka the Best Athlete Ever. Also starring the 2nd Worst Basketball Player Ever, Garrett Steinger. This is really as real as real gets.
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Duration : 0:5:50
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Im 14 and play at my level for water polo. I hae some friends who play the other sports and we are all very competitive… the most difficult sport means you need to have (ps, we are all girls if it makes a difference)
stength
endurance
speed
strategy
communication
team (meaning you communicate with your team to get a point or basket or goal….)
agility
i think that water polo wins! what do you think? and why….. (hehe i feel like a teacher)
Smiles and Thanks,
Gabi 
I’d got with gymnastics as being the most difficult, it requires insane strength, and tremendous agility and flexibility. You also don’t have the luxury to fall back on your teammates should something go wrong, it’s all on you. However there isn’t much in the way of communication during the actual competition as everything is preplanned and practiced extensively well before hand. With soccer, softball, basketball, volleyball, and water polo, it’s much more team oriented and the team as a whole can make up for a weak player. But from a pure physical standpoint the only one of those that comes even close to gymnastics is water polo.
At age 86, Frank Murano figures he has two choices. “You’ve got to keep active some way,” he said. “Unless you want to go home and sit in the rocking chair.”
It’s clear what side of the fence Murano is on. The only time you’ll catch him sitting down is if he’s in the dugout awaiting an at-bat.
The Weymouth resident was one of 10 players inducted into the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame this month. He’s been told he’s the oldest tournament-level softball player in the country.
“I don’t know of anybody else,” he said after a break from batting at Faxon Park in Quincy, where he practices with a Scituate-based team. One of his grandsons caught his fly balls in the outfield.
If there is another 86-year-old ballplayer out there, Murano would have likely run into him.
As a member of the Baltimore- based Hotel Tremont team, Murano and his wily teammates play all over the country and have won 10 national championships in the Senior Softball USA league. They won the senior softball world series tournament in Minnesota last month. Murano boarded a plane this week to Dalton, Ga., to play in another tournament.
“We’ve played some teams in Japan, we beat them,” Murano said. “We’ve been pretty good, a good ball club.”
William C. Smith, sponsor of the Tremont Team, wrote a letter to the hall recommending Murano for induction.
“There is little I can say that is not known throughout all of senior baseball,” Smith wrote. “The best senior softball third baseman ever. Please hurry and vote him into the Hall of Fame.”
For all the plaudits, you won’t catch him bragging.
“He’ll tell you what you need to know about all his rings, all his trophies, everything he’s given away to all his grandkids,” said his daughter Joanne Laubacher, who lives in Whitman.
The son of Italian immigrant parents, Murano was born in South Boston. He and his future wife lived on the same street growing up. In high school, Murano played baseball, but also ran track and played hockey and football. He found his first pair of hockey skates in the trash.
As a young man he was impressive in the semipro Boston Park League, and even received a letter from a Red Sox scout after he joined the Air Force in 1943. He still has the letter.
“Take good care of yourself and keep the faith,” wrote Hugh Duffy of the then-Boston American League Baseball Company. “I hope it’s a short war.”
In addition to fighting in World War II, Murano played ball in the Air Force, where he was roommates with some major leaguers. Such connections got him chances to participate in pre- game warm-ups at Fenway Park.
“I went over there to pitch for batting practice,” Murano said. “I was throwing pretty hard, had a good arm, they couldn’t hit me. I was trying to make a good impression.”
Murano has always had a way of showing up at practice fields and finding his way into the action. When he joined the Boston Fire Department rescue squad, he jumped right into the department’s hockey and softball teams.
In addition to his 23 years in the fire department, Murano also worked as a mailman to help support his five children. He said he carried one of his daughters, Joanne Laubacher, in his mailbag when she was 2 to keep an eye on her while his wife battled health problems.
Elizabeth Murano has for years battled symptoms common to people with Parkinson’s disease and requires around-the-clock assistance. Murano visits his wife of 64 years in the Weymouth Health Care Center at least twice a day, unless he’s on the road playing in tournaments.
“Of course that’s the most important thing,” Murano said of his wife.
It seems everyone who knows Frank knows his priorities. Tracy Shea, who works in the health care center’s laundry room, said Murano is “absolutely the most devoted husband I’ve ever seen.”
On a recent morning while his wife was resting, Murano toured the health care center like he was the mayor, shaking hands and catching up with every other patient he passed. He seemed to to know a little about everyone.
“I’m always giving you cookies, right? Anytime you ask,” Murano said to patient Bob Huntoon, a stroke victim.
“I know, you’re very good to me,” Huntoon replied.
Murano said he enjoys more than anything visiting his wife and other patients, but admitted it “takes quite a bit out of you.”
Not enough, though, to slow him down.
“I just go from day to day, actually minute to minute at this age,” he said. “You just keep moving.”
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The Italy Lady Gladiators Softball Team win the first two games of a best 2-out of-3 playoff series to claim the Bi-District Championship, thanks to “The Catch”.
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I’m looking into playing a sport next school year, and I need help figuring out which sport I should join.
Even if I don’t get any answers here, a few links to different websites with suggestions and such would be helpful.
I can’t stand baseball/softball – fielding doesn’t demand constant attention and therefore tends to bore me. I need something where I am almost always concentrating on what is going on.
I also do not enjoy swimming.
I have bad feet (almost no arches, and I overpronate) but I have very strong legs and love to run.
I have correctional inserts I can put in shoes to help with the foot issues, but something that requires balance and jumping and such is not good for me.
I am also quite short… 4′ 11".
I like tennis and volleyball, but I will enjoy pretty much any sport except basketball and a few others that escape me right now.
Thanks in advance for helping!
Try the one you would enjoy the most and work hard at it to succeed.
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