Islanders have a catch, baseball gloves and all

Anders Lee Photo Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van DykeFARMERS BRANCH, Texas — Hockey players for many years have warmed up for games by kicking around a soccer ball. But an hour before Friday’s practice, several Islanders used a far less common form of cross-sport limbering up.

Anders Lee, Brock Nelson, Cal Clutterbuck and Kyle Okposo were among a group of players that took to the empty parking lot outside the Stars’ practice facility here carrying baseball mitts, then proceeded to have a catch.

“We were in Florida in the fall and we just got off the [excitement of the] October baseball swing, so we all had an extra day and went and bought mitts and warmed up that way,” Lee said, speaking of a…