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Gary Adornato

Gary Adornato

Joined: Jun 17, 2024

Gary Adornato is the Senior VP of Content for High School On SI and SBLive Sports. He began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University. In 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.

Hitting a breaking ball is what separates hitters to proceed to the higher levels of baseball from those who do not. Learning to hit the curveball on the high school level is your key to advancing in the sport.
Baseball

From pitch recognition to plate discipline, here’s how high school hitters can train their eyes, control their timing and finally turn baseball’s most deceptive pitch into an opportunity instead of an out.

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