Tommy Morton
Tommy Morton Finds Strength in Pursuing Dream of Playing College Baseball
Tommy Morton (North Babylon 2026) gets the start for Dodgers Nation and throws a scoreless first inning pic.twitter.com/YhDwP2IDZT — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) September 16, 2023 It would certainly be understandable, expected even, to miss a baseball practice when you receive the news that your father passed away unexpectedly on a business trip. Tommy Morton was just 12-years-old at the time when his world was turned upside down. He was the oldest of four children, with the youngest being just a couple months old. Steve Corrado, longtime head varsity baseball coach at North Babylon, was shocked to see Tommy at the little league clinic at the high school the next day. When he saw the young man, Tommy said, “I just want to be here and play baseball.” It’s what his...
North Babylon Returns Strong Core
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by Max Edelman With his 13th season as head coach of the North Babylon Bulldogs fast approaching, Steve Corrado looks to build upon an 11-11 season in 2024. Despite the tough ending to the season, Corrado believes that there were plenty of positives to take away from his up and coming Bulldogs squad. “We went into last season with a lot of questions with our pitching.” Corrado said. “We had graduated literally all of our pitching from the year before. But our younger guys stepped up, in our two playoff games we started two sophomore pitchers. 75% of the innings we pitched last season were by kids in either 10th or 11th grade.” While the majority of North Babylon’s key players will be returning in 202...
