Today, the Dutch Baseball Hangout reached the milestone of getting 750,000 hits.
Since the establishment of the blog in August 2014, it took a bit more than six years to get to this point.
As this blog is getting 125,000 hits on the average annually, it will take another two years to reach the next milestone.
I would like to thank the readers and the followers of this blog to help reaching this milestone.
Up to the 1,000,000.
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