Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday
Yes! It is Friday again and we all know what that means. Here is another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy.
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Origin of Minor League Team Names, a Reprise: V
Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. This time the letter:V Unfortunately, no…
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Today in Baseball: Catching fly balls with a Tuba
Today in 1964, a player that would not reach the Hall of Fame because of his splendid playing career, used a musical instrument to catch some fly balls during batting practice. This ball payer would be voted into the Hall of Fame because of his broadcasting career with the Milwaukee Brewers. This should ring a…
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Borgerhout Squirrels @ Hoboken Pioneers
With almost no baseball in the Netherlands, yours truly went to Hoboken in Belgium to attend the game between the Borgerhout Squirrels and the Hoboken Pioneers. On an overcast and windy day, Hoboken Pioneers won the game 12-1 and clinched the 2020 Belgian corona championship. Here is a short impression of the game. This blog…
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Peanuts Baseball Comic on Saturday
As I have a lot on my mind lately, I totally forgot our main Friday item “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday.” To make it up to you, I’ll post the comic about Charlie Brown and his baseball gang today. As a little bonus, I post two today. Enjoy.
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2020 Dutch hoofdklasse: Top 4, make up game
After a clear 10-0 victory over HCAW in which three pitchers threw a combined no-hitter, L&D Amsterdam Pirates also clinched a clear victory vs HCAW in Bussum today. Yesterday, Rob Cordemans (5 innings), Nick Veltkamp (1 inning), and Matz Schutte (1 inning) pitched a combined no-hitter. If Schutte had not issued the sole walk to…