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Josh Engler will enter the 2022 Grip 'N Rip Baseball League season with a 2.91 career earned run average across 68 innings pitched. He's allowed 47 hits, and struck out 97 batters in two seasons. If all goes well, he'll become just the third pi
It's the M-V-Podcast. Josh Engler is the 2021 Most Valuable Player of the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League. He struck out a single season record 69 batters in nine games with the Republic Locos, and he also got 12 hits.Josh Engler is from Mount Ve
Lefty Trey Watson pitched for a team named in his honor in 2018, the Trey Watson Realty Closers. After growing up in Springfield, Missouri, and playing for the legendary coach Howard Bell's Glendale Falcons, Watson went on to play two years at
Justin Skinner approaches entrepreneurship like he approached the baseball career that put him in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2020 — he's not afraid to try everything. April 5, 2022, Justin Skinner will release a book, "Professional Fai
There's a baseball league in Ozark, Missouri, and sometimes, it gets characterized as a league for old men. Some of the people who play in the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League self-identify as old men. Zach Ralph, Cole Haselhorst, Trevyn Batey, Chan
Here come the young lions. In a baseball league where some of the players self-identify as old men, these five guys are lowering the median age and raising the level of competition.Nixa Suckers pitcher Kyle Carpenter, Springfield Mets outfield
With 40 hits, Jared Braschler ranks third all time in the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League. Now a resident of Ozark, Missouri, he lived out a modest dream of playing ball for the hometown team in 2021, when he started in center field for the Ozark M
Ozark Mountain Ducks center fielder Jared Braschler ranks third all time in base hits across six seasons of Grip 'N Rip Baseball. When he isn't tracking fly balls and driving doubles, Braschler is flying airplanes.The commercial pilot takes u
Moon City Mavericks third baseman Brandon Freeman takes us back to the buttersoaked glory of yesteryear, his days as a professional roll thrower at Lambert's Cafe in Ozark, Missouri.Their motto is "Come Hungry, Leave Full, and Maybe Have a Lau
"Man, what is Freeman doing?" is a phrase I have heard more than once on the playing field and in the press box at U.S. Baseball Park. In five years of Grip 'N Rip Baseball, professional civil engineer Brandon Freeman has proven himself to be k
Evan Meagher walked away for surefire employment and salary in the financial sector to pursue some unfinished business... baseball. He put down his economics degree from Stanford and decided that maybe, if he trained hard enough, he could make
Evan Meagher is the author of "Have Bat, Will Travel: My Year in French Baseball." The book is available in hard copy and on the Amazon Kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0971QHXCZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0You might remember E
It's been an uphill run for Caleb Cole, who battled through back, hamstring and ankle problems to put it all together in his 2021 Gold Glove Award-winning season with the Ozark Mountain Ducks. Caleb Cole became the first person inducted into th
Caleb Cole collects awards wherever he goes. In the Grip 'N Rip Baseball League, he's a two-time Gold Glove Award winning shortstop, the 2017 MVP, a 2019 Howard Bell Trophy championship winner, a multi-time all-star and the first player ever vo
Dayne Shoff is not actually ageless. He's 60. He's a baseball player. He's also a fire captain in his hometown of Lamar, Missouri, an engineering and safety consultant, a bus driver, a coach, an advisor, a caring father, a loving husband, a pub
Roundtable discussion with five members of the 2021 Moon City Mavericks continues. Guests Daniel England, Tyler Jones, Clay Murphy, Matt Spangler and Devin Braswell share some highlights from Moon City's 8-1 run to the Howard Bell Trophy champi
The 2021 Moon City Mavericks celebrated a championship with a record of eight wins against a single defeat. They were the first team to ever win eight games in a single Grip 'N Rip Baseball League season, and they posted two shutouts along the
Dayne Shoff is 60 years old, and he still plays high-level baseball. To just talk about Dayne Shoff's age and the fact that he still plays baseball grossly undersells who Shoff is as a person. He's a firefighter, an assistant coach, a substitut
Chris Meza survived his childhood in a Chicago barrio and made it onto a junior college baseball team. His injury-riddled career at the College of DuPage left him feeling like it was time to hang up the glove and the spikes for good, but baseba
Chris Meza grew up on the south side of Chicago in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood. He grew up with two loving parents with the added bonus of his grandparents and aunts living in the same place. Like many Hispanic kids in Chicago, Chris was ju
Pitcher Chris Matlock talks us through his progression as an unheralded kid from Springfield, Missouri to becoming the 21st round draft pick for the Texas Rangers in 2009. He went from the junior college ranks to the University of Central Misso
Chris Matlock came within one out of winning MVP of the 2020 Grip 'N Rip Baseball League championship game, which would have put his name on the Howard Bell Trophy a second time. The 2009 21st round draft pick of the Texas Rangers jumped into
Ethan Bryan played catch for 366 consecutive days in 2018, and then he wrote the book on it. In 2021, he's encouraging other people to play catch, and if they don't have baseball gloves, Ethan is going on the road to bring baseball to them. Sta
Announcement after announcement after announcement. Grip 'N Rip Baseball League Chief Operations Officer Kevin "K-Rob" Robertson drops some serious information on Season VI of the GRBL, which gets going with tryouts and the draft Sunday, Aug. 1
Long before he ever made a baseball comeback, won a Grip 'N Rip League championship with the Ozark Mountain Ducks, and won the 2020 league MVP Award, Clay Murphy had to bounce back from having Tommy John surgery on his right throwing elbow. We
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