Marlins pitcher Scott Proctor (left), plays with his 3-year-old daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and wife, Carrie. Photo by Sarah Grile

JENSEN BEACH — There’s no disputing Scott Proctor’s passion for baseball. After a tough loss, the new Marlins reliever once burned his glove on the dugout steps at Yankee Stadium — “a sacrifice to the baseball gods,” he explained.

Proctor persuaded his wife to name their first child,  5-year-old Camden, after Baltimore’s baseball yard.

Their youngest, 18-month-old Cooper, got his name from the New York town that’s home to the Hall of Fame.

“It helped me understand what really matters,’’ he said. (more…)

SEBASTIAN — Scott Bernard’s contest on www.HowToWinMyHouse.com likely will not have a winner when it ends Dec. 17.

The coloring contest he started, in an attempt to unload his remodeled three-bedroom, one-bath 1957 Florida home at 457 Columbus St. he dubbed The Sebastian Chateau, had a paltry 15 entries. The contest, which began in July, cost $49 to enter. (more…)