If you have ever watched a Japanese baseball game online or in a ballpark, you will have noticed the fans and their orderly conduct. Nowadays, it is a common thing, but there were times when (parts of) the Japanese fan bases misbehaved and acted like true hooligans. While the NPB’s Central League has some fierce…
Yessss!!! It is the final Friday of the week again. Time to celebrate the upcoming weekend with another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy (your weekend)!!!
It’s that time of the year again. Time for another anthology of national champions in European baseball, the 10th edition of what started in 2017. Austria: A four-peat in Austria. The Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt clinched the Austrian title for the fourth time in a row. Against the Traiskirchen Grasshoppers, the Ducks were with their…
Another blog post about Japanese Baseball. This time about the Orix Buffaloes and how they were created. Fans of Japanese baseball will know the story, but to those who are not familiar with the NPB, this may be a nice read. Before the Orix Buffaloes, there were the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes….
This is kind of old news (but still worth posting about) as the Hill City Howlers presented their new line of caps on October 19. A major improvement over the original cap the club introduced at the start of the season. In a previous post about the rebranding of the (former) Lynchburg Hillcats, yours truly…
In this episode of “Baseball Shorts” we go back to the 1880s when complete games were a common thing, even though it meant that pitchers would hurt their throwing arm. We are writing 1884. On June 7 of that year, star pitcher of the Providence Grays, Charley Sweeney struck out 19 batters in a single…
This blog post is all about how two teams, one from Japan and one from Korea are “related” to each other. Not only by name of the owning company, but also (back in the day) by uniforms. The two teams we are talking about are the Lotte Giants from Korea and the Chiba Lotte Marines…
Yesssss!!!! It is that time of the week again. The final working day. Time to celebrate the upcoming weekend with another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy (your weekend)!!!
The other day, the Dutch Baseball Hangout came with the news that the Brasschaat Braves have released a part of their coaching staff. What was written is true in general, but a few things need to be corrected. First of all, my source. I wrote that is part of the Braves organization, but when he…
The Yomiuri Giants, the 22-time winner of the Nippon Series, has appointed a new manager. After the team lost 2-1 in the first round of the Climax Series (the Japanese playoffs), the club announced Hideki Matsui as the successor of interim manager Hideki Hashigami. In a press conference this morning, Godzilla was presented as the…
