They crushed pizzas just as often as they crushed baseballs. For the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks, this was a summer they won’t soon forget.

Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School baseball standout Sam Bresnick was selected to the Massachusetts State All Star Game.

At 6 feet, 6 inches, and 230 pounds, Sharks pitcher and Oak Bluffs native James Sashin has quite an appetite. But parents Howie and Cheryll make sure that he never goes hungry.

On a perfect evening, the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks opened up their season with an 8-1 victory over the North Shore Navigators.

As the season reaches the midway point, several teams are asserting their dominance while others are recouping from hard-fought losses.

Baseball inspires storytellers, as Jim Kaplan demonstrates in his engaging new book of essays Clearing the Bases: A Veteran Sportswriter on the National Pastime.

As high school athletes begin post season play, the boys baseball team topped the roster this week with a first-round win over Hanover, marking the first post-season win for the boys in 14 years.

As the regular season winds down for high school athletics, four teams will see post-season play.

This year's varsity baseball squad has seven starting seniors — Aidan Aliberti, Taber Caron, Mitchell Chaves, Elias Fhagen-Smith, Jonas Lukowitz, Chris Mayhew and James Sashin. Many of them have been playing together since Little League.