Baseball is a game of superstitions: hitters don't wash helmets while on a streak, and managers don't brush their teeth for weeks after a great argument with an umpire. Discover your own diamond rituals with today's GrouponLive deal: for $20, you get one ticket to the Atlantic Coast Baseball Parent, Player, and Coaches Convention. which takes place at the DoubleTree Monroeville Convention Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on January 21 (a $40 value). See the schedule for presenters' topics and speaking times.
Atlantic Coast Baseball furnishes the diamond playing grounds of American's pastime by providing consistent and competitive leagues and tournaments for children of different age levels. At this winter's festival, players, parents, and coaches can strengthen their knowledge of the sport by absorbing wisdom and posing questions before eight different speakers each presenting a different topic. University of Pittsburgh head coach, Joe Jordano, heads the lineup of college coaches, sports-medicine practitioners, strength-and-conditioning coaches, and bleacher spectators who brazenly bare-hand home-run balls. Topics include developing a championship-caliber player, molding a winning catcher, caring for throwing arms, honing offensive approaches, enhancing infield skills, and navigating the waters of the college recruitment process. Coach Jordano and his sunflower-seed-spitting brethren will each speak for 20 minutes and reserve 10 minutes for Q&A.
Also onsite, vendors from Louisville Slugger, Mizuno, Easton, Wilson, and other gear manufactures showcase their latest products, including an exclusive new line of neon semaphore flags for easy-to-see "steal" signs. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the festival breaks for lunch, and organizers encourage guest to pop in for whatever speakers and topics most tickle their fancy.
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The Groupon Guide to: Obsolete Furniture
As styles and technology change, some of the living room furniture you're sitting on or crying into right now may one day become outdated. Here's a look at some once-ubiquitous furniture no longer found in most homes:
Beanbag Chairs: Once the pinnacle of comfortable luxury, beanbag chairs were the centerpiece of Cornelius Vanderbilt's fabulous Manhattan Pyramid.
Spittoons: Today's more genteel tobacco chewers simply spit into the nearest pet-food bowl.
Love Seats: Most divorce settlements require all co-owned love seats to be destroyed with a sledgehammer.
Carpeting: Modern homes instead feature a swarm of nanobots that can constitute themselves into a soft rug, a mind-clearing bed of nails, or an exact replica of Pierce Brosnan that, like the real actor, can cry, sweat, or vomit on cue.
Courtesy Commodes, a.k.a. Chamber Pots: It may be more sanitary to use the bathroom in a separate, dedicated room, but it's a lot less fun.
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