Beyond the Baseball Field: Meet Dallas and Rylee Baldri and the Family Joining Team Moms: Baseball (Paramount+)

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Team Moms: Baseball brings the world of competitive youth baseball — and the families behind it — to Paramount+ this September.

There’s a side of competitive youth sports most people never see.

They see the games. The uniforms. The highlights. The wins and losses.

What they don’t always see is everything that happens around them: parents reorganizing their lives, siblings spending weekends at ballparks, businesses being managed from the road, family disagreements, long drives, early mornings and the enormous commitment required to help a young athlete chase a dream.

That world is about to get a much bigger spotlight.

***Team Moms: Baseball* premieres September 24 on Paramount+, with ITV America producing the series and Kim Kardashian** serving as an executive producer.

Among the families viewers will meet are Dallas and Rylee Baldri and their family — [the Baldris.](http://thehdfamily.tv/)

I’ve known Dallas for years through business. What television audiences are about to discover is that there’s much more to his story than entrepreneurship.

Meet Dallas and Rylee Baldri

Dallas Baldri is an entrepreneur and co-founder of **The HD Group**. That’s the world in which many people in my professional network know him — building businesses, developing partnerships and pursuing new opportunities.

But Dallas and his wife, **Rylee Baldri**, are also parents raising a family immersed in competitive athletics.

Their son, **Salvatore Baldri**, is a competitive youth baseball player.

And when your child plays baseball at that level, the sport rarely belongs to just the player.

It becomes a family commitment.

That’s where the story gets interesting.

Youth Baseball Is a Family Sport

Talk to almost any parent of a serious young athlete and you’ll hear some version of the same story.

Weekends disappear.

Vacations become tournaments.

Dinner schedules revolve around practices.

Cars become equipment rooms.

Family calendars start looking like logistics operations.

And parents find themselves walking a difficult line between supporting a child’s ambitions and maintaining some sense of normal family life.

For families like the Baldris, baseball doesn’t exist in isolation. It intersects with school, careers, relationships, other children’s activities, travel and everything else that doesn’t stop simply because there’s a tournament this weekend.

That’s one reason I think Team Moms: Baseball has the potential to connect with an audience far beyond baseball fans.

The Baldris Are More Than Baseball

One of the things I’ve learned from knowing Dallas and Rylee is that their family doesn’t fit neatly into one category.

There’s baseball, certainly.

But there’s also business and entrepreneurship.

Dallas and Rylee are raising children with their own interests, athletic pursuits and ambitions while simultaneously building businesses and pursuing new ventures.

One of those ventures is **Collezione Di Vini**, centered around rare wines from Irpinia in Southern Italy.

Then there is the normal family stuff — if anything about raising ambitious kids while building businesses can be considered normal.

Put all of those worlds together, and you begin to understand why the Baldri family makes for an interesting television story.

What Happens Behind the Highlights?

Social media has made it incredibly easy to see the highlight.

We see the home run.

The championship photo.

The signing.

The trophy.

The family vacation.

The business announcement.

What we rarely see are the hundreds of decisions, sacrifices and sometimes chaotic moments required to get there.

That’s where reality television can become interesting when it’s done well.

The baseball may get people through the door, but the relationships and personalities are what ultimately tell the story.

How does a family respond when things don’t go according to plan?

What happens when different personalities collide?

How do parents balance supporting one child’s athletic goals without allowing those goals to consume the entire family?

And how do you simultaneously build a career, maintain a marriage, raise multiple children and keep moving forward?

Those questions aren’t exclusive to television.

They’re questions families across America navigate every day.

From Business Meetings to Paramount+

I’ve spent years knowing Dallas in a business environment.

I’ve seen the entrepreneur.

I’ve seen the dealmaker.

I’ve seen the person constantly thinking about what’s next.

Now millions of people potentially have the opportunity to see Dallas Baldri, Rylee Baldri and the Baldri family from an entirely different perspective.

That’s what makes this chapter particularly interesting.

With ITV America behind the production, Kim Kardashian among the executive producers and Paramount+ bringing the series to viewers, Team Moms: Baseball puts a national spotlight on a world that usually plays out one baseball field and one family at a time.

For the Baldris, it also means opening the door and allowing viewers into a part of their lives most people have never seen.

This May Be Just the Beginning

Television has an interesting way of introducing audiences to people they otherwise never would have encountered.

Sometimes the show becomes the story.

Other times, it’s merely the introduction.

I have a feeling this could be the latter for Dallas and Rylee Baldri.

People who already know them through business will get to see another side of their lives.

People discovering them through Team Moms: Baseball will quickly learn there’s considerably more to the family than baseball.

And beginning September 24, audiences will have the opportunity to meet them for themselves.

***Team Moms: Baseball* premieres September 24 on Paramount+.**

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— Eric Foster