Here are some mid-April Easter dinner leftovers as we are just about halfway through an unforgettable first full month of spring:

Longtime Alvirne High School baseball coach Mike Lee has a good recommendation for a lot of you baseball purists out there: It’s the book “Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s Home Run Revolution”,by Jared Diamond. It talks about the unknown hitting gurus behind the ability of certain players to raise their success level and power numbers.

One of those gurus, or, as the intro says, “rogue swing coaches” that is featured is none other than one Lee’s favorite Alvirne alums – Bobby Tewksbary. Of course many of you remember back nearly five years ago when Josh Donaldson credited Tewksbary with his resurgence to the point that he had Tewksbary pitch to him in the Major League Baseball All-Star Home Run Derby.

“Tewksbary so helped Donaldson emerge as an MVP-caliber slugger that, in 2015, Donaldson brought Tewksbary along as his pitcher when he competed in the Home Run Derby,” the book says.

It also gets into Tewksbary’s work with former Nashua Pride standout Chris Colabello, who struggled with Minnesota but was a success in Toronto. Colabello has now been working closely with Tewksbary in filming and tutoring local players. The two were a fixture at high school games at Holman Stadium last spring.

Lee to this day calls Tewksbary “one of the very best players to ever put on an Alvirne uniform” and was interviewed extensively by Diamond and is in the book. Like you, we’ll check it out and tell you what we think. …

If American Legion baseball if allowed to have a season in New Hampshire, word is that the call would be made by state officials, if Governor Chris Sununu allows summer sports to take place. Even then, play will end with the state tourney.

According to an article in the Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.), national officials cancelled all eight regional tournaments as well as the 2020 American Legion World Series.

That’s a shame after the great season Nashua – which whenever it plays again will be, reportedly back under the Coffey Post 3 sponsorship – had last year.

“These times are unparalleled,” Americanism Commission official Richard Anderson said in a release this past week. “And while it is distressing to think of all those youth across the nation who re disappointed to learn of the cancellation of American Legion programs this year, it would be a much, much greater tragedy if even just one of those youth(s) were to fall ill during a program. The Americanism Commission feels this is the right thing to do.”…

Travel, hotel stays and large gatherings likely would all be risky things. But let’s hope things improve to the point where state officials give summer ball a go-ahead.

The disruption of major and minor league baseball caused one local observer to ask this question: Have the Lowell Spinners played their last game?

Hard to imagine. But this is all about the publicized effort back in December of MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, who is bound and determined to cut the

number minor league teams and eliminate most short season leagues. If there’s no baseball, especially in the minors, reportedly the hope around Minor League Baseball was that its agreement with MLB set to expire at the end of the 2020 season would be extended another year.

Reportedly, MLB wants no part of doing that. Already the draft, normally held in June, is likely to be pushed back to July and then be cut from 40 rounds to as few as anywhere from five to 10 to cut costs. And the economic impact may certainly hurt minor league teams.

We hope this doesn’t happen. The Spinners need to be tied to the Red Sox to stay successful. Lelacheur Park meets all of the standards – and then some. Plus, the franchise is close to its affiliate, one of the complains Manfred and his people have about the minors. Please.

“Lowell meets or exceeds every facility standard there is,” Spinners owner David Heller told Boston’s WGBH two months ago, when negotiations again stalled. “They (Major League Baseball) say they want minor league teams that are closer to their major league affiliate. Well, goodness gracious – you can’t get much closer to your major league affiliate than we are.”

This is a case where generalizaton is certainly wrong. Here’s hoping the Spinners, who want no part of being some type of independent league team, stand firm and remain as is.

—- The Tom Brady interview with Howard Stern was certainly a bit revealing, wasn’t it? Well, maybe yes, maybe no. It confirmed something we’ve told you in this space the last couple of years – his opting not to attend OTAs until mandatory minicamp was more to do with family than anything else. It’s been a natural progression – Brady is a husband, a father, a businessman, etc. And he’s almost 43, certainly not willing to put up likely with some of the things he’s put up with. It’s an older Tom Brady, perhaps a wiser Tom Brady, and, as we have seen, a different Tom Brady. That’s that. …

Very sorry to hear of the recent sudden passing due to natural causes of Larry Hodge, who was always the sidekick of the late Bill Neverett, seen at just about every local baseball game (and even football) that was played. After Neverett passed away nearly two years ago, Hodge was always in the company at local games of retired local sports PA announcer Bob Bates – he of the golden pipes. According to Bates, before the pandemic, Hodge was looking forward to baseball in the area this spring and summer, evidently according to Bates expecting it to be his last as he was set to move soon after. He’ll be missed. …

Believe it, postponing the Nashua Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony set for early May was an emotional decision for Nashua athletic director Lisa Gingras. Yes, there’s a committee, of which yours truly is a member, but Gingras was the engine. She had vowed a few years ago to get the Hall of Fame back, and rest assured, it will return in the public eye with an induction ceremony – just a little further down the road than was planned. peaking of returning, wouldn’t one think baseball has a better chance to come back before any of the other major pro and college sports? Why? The others have much more contact, but who knows. Golf, though, right now feels like it would be the leader in the clubhouse.

Tom King may be reached at 594-1251, tking@nashuatelegraph.com, or @Telegraph_TomK.