Peanuts baseball comic on Friday
From now on, the Dutch Baseball Hangout will post a random baseball comic of Peanuts on Friday. In total Charles M. Schultz created about 1,800 baseball comics, 10% of all the Peanuts episodes.
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“Moonlight” Graham’s career not as dramatic as portrayed
If there is one player made famous by a novel and/or a movie, it must be Archibald “Moonlight” Graham. The obscure ballplayer played an important part in the novel “Shoeless Joe” and the movie that was made after the novel “Field of Dreams. Graham was made famous for his one game in the 1905 season…
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Charlie Brown baseball comics
Charlie Brown and baseball. American as American can be. Here are some comics of Charlie and his gang “Peanuts” that are related to baseball. Enjoy.
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My baseball top five of the decade
In the past decade, a lot of baseball took place. This is my top five of the best baseball moments in the past decade. 5. Cubs win World Series After 108 years, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016. In a nailbiter of a World Series that went seven games, the Cubbies bested…
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Baseball related songs: “Take me out to the ballgame” by Bernie Williams
In this episode of “Baseball related songs”, we pay attention to an instrumental performance by Bernie Williams, the former center fielder of the New York Yankees. In more than one way this “song” is baseball-related. First of all the song itself, which was released for the first time in 1908. But also the person who…
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Happy New Year
The Dutch Baseball Hangout would like to wish all of its followers and readers a Happy 2020. May all your wishes come true and may you succeed in clinging on to your New Year’s resolutions. May your favorite baseball team win it all (oh well, excluding the Red Sox and Dodgers of course 😉 )….
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DiMaggio for Williams; the trade that never happened
There is a story floating around about a trade between the Yankees and the Red Sox back in the 1940s. Both owners would trade away their biggest star to the opponent. Eventually, the trade never happened but it would have been something to see both Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams in the uniform of the…
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Top ten of worst baseball movies
Almost three years ago, I posted a blog post about my top ten of the best baseball movies. Today, I will look at baseball movies in the opposite way: A top ten of worst baseball movies that I have seen. 10. The Rookie Also, this movie is based on a true story. It is about…
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Baseball related songs: “Me and Julio” by Paul Simon
In today’s episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “Me and Julio by the schoolyard” performed by singer-songwriter Paul Simon. The song is about two boys that have committed a crime. When the mother of the boys (mama pajama) notices what the boys have done, she heads to a police station to report…
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How baseball can be a healer
This is a very personal note about how baseball helped me to deal with the loss of my dad. To me, it proves that baseball (and perhaps sports in general) can be a healer for sad personal situations. Thanks to my father I was infested with the baseball virus. Originally my father was a soccer…