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Leighton Sheldon always considered himself an avid baseball card collector. “I remember opening a pack of cards in 1984 and I got a Don Mattingly rookie card,” said Sheldon, a resident of Hoboken. “I was always careful with my cards. I was like 12 or 13 years old, but I knew what I wanted to …

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The start of the high school basketball season is still a good four months away, but don’t try to sell that idea to many of Hudson County’s top girls’ teams and players. That’s because several of the local squads have spent the summer months playing in the highly competitive Kearny High School girls’ summer league …

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Slowly but surely, Robert Ayers is becoming more comfortable with being a member of the New York Giants. Ayers, the Jersey City native who spent his freshman year as a member of the Hoboken High School football team before moving to South Carolina, signed with the Giants as a free agent in the offseason, after …

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Justin Willis may be only 15 years old, but he obviously has a very bright future in baseball. The West New York resident, who will be a sophomore at St. Joseph (Metuchen) next month, recently spent a few weeks training with the United States National Baseball program in Cary, North Carolina, vying for a spot …

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For years, local youth baseball teams have competed in the various leagues sponsored by the Amateur American Baseball Congress. Local teams have played on the Cal Ripken, Sandy Koufax, Mickey Mantle and Connie Mack levels, depending on the age limits. It’s been a way for the aspiring Hudson County baseball player to continue learning and …

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Ever since Hoboken Recreation got involved with the Major League Baseball RBI softball program, the Hoboken Shockers have been a dominant force. That was the case again last weekend, when the Shockers captured the RBI Northeast Regional championship for the fifth straight time and sixth time in the last seven years. By virtue of the …

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For the past decade or so, Jersey City has been one of the premier participants in Major League Baseball’s popular RBI (Rebuilding Baseball in the Inner Cities) summer program. Jersey City has two prominent leagues in RBI, namely Pershing Field and Jackie Robinson. Last weekend, Jackie Robinson got the better of the rivalry, winning both …

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Evan Rodriguez knows that he’s definitely at the crossroads of the rest of his professional football career. At the tender age of 25 years old, the former North Bergen High School two-sport standout and former Hudson Reporter Male Athlete of the Year in 2007 headed off to Orchard Park, N.Y. last week to start training …

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The kids of Jersey City, who were participating in a free football camp, had no idea that they were in the presence of a legend. To them, the guy organizing the camp was just some older gentleman wearing a baseball cap. Well, in reality, it was Rich Glover, the former two-time All-American from the University …

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Can a kid from Jersey City get any further away from home than spending the summer in the mountains of Billings, Montana? Well, that’s where Fabian Roman is this summer, pitching with the Billings Mustangs, the Cincinnati Reds’ affiliate in the Pioneer League, Rookie classification. The 22-year-old Roman, the former Marist High School standout, was …

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