The indedpendent Joliet Slammers will tee off the season with a exhibition game against the Gateway Grizzlies on April 30. This game is part of the 100 anniversary of Route 66. This game is very special as it will be played inside the former prison of Joliet, now known as Old Joliet Prison Historic Site….
Recently, the KBBSF (Royal Belgian Baseball and Softball Federation) has released the schedule of the 2026 Division One season. During the regular season, each team will play fourteen doubleheaders. The 2026 season will tee off in the weekend of April 11 and 12. As usual, the opening games of each double header are scheduled to…
Through their socials and website, the El Paso Chihuahuas presented their new identity for the Copa de la Diversión. For the 2026 season (and further) the Chihuahuas will call themselves the Matachines. The El Paso Matachines is a tribute to one of the most recognizable and meaningful cultural traditions of the Paso del Norte region….
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)!!!!
Baseball and April Fools, it is a nice combination. Yours truly also posted some April Fools Jokes in the past. This story is about an April Fools’ joke published by a major sports magazine backed by the New York Mets. In early 1985, Mark Mulvoy, the managing editor of Sports Illustrated, noticed that a cover date that year would fall on…
Yesssss!!!! It is that time of the week again. Friday. 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 reported about the possibility that baseball in Rimini was to end. Since Google Translate doesn’t translate Italian all that well, there was a misunderstanding on my side about this. The reality will be explained below. New Rimini, which was built on the ashes of the bankrupt Rimini Pirates,…
In the Italian Facebook Group Casabase, yours truly learned that New Rimini, the successor of the bankrupt Rimini Pirates is evicted from its ballpark by the municipality of the Italian seaside resort. A debt of 400,000 Euro was the limit apparently. The Pirati stadium will swiftly return to the ownership of the municipality of Rimini….
Yessss!!! It is that time of the week again. The final Friday of the week. Time for another episode of Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday to celebrate the upcoming weekend. Enjoy (your weekend)!!!
When baseball rules were translated into Dutch, one rule about pitching was lost in translation. It took forty-six years before this mistake was discovered. Read on and you learn about how. In the Netherlands, Baseball is played since 1908. In those days there wasn’t a regular competition yet. Even though the sport was introduced in…
