The title is not quite correct since it is baseball for the blind and visually impaired. But that is way too long for a title. Anyhow, about two-and-a-half weeks ago, an event that advocates the aforementioned baseball branch was organized in the Dutch Province of Limburg. Since the Dutch Baseball Hangout had written about baseball…
Today is Halloween. Not my cup of tea. Especially because the retail companies are trying to shove a holiday that isn’t Dutch down our throat. Everything for the buck eh? But do Halloween and baseball fit together? Absolutely. Since the expansion of the playoffs in MLB, five games have been played on Halloween: Game 4…
Once again there is some controversy about a name in baseball. This time not about a club but about the area where relief pitchers “reside” during a game: the bullpen. The animal rights organization PETA seems to have some problems with the name bullpen. According to them, the name refers to the area where they…
According to Libartas.sm, a San Marino based news website, Riccardo Fraccari and the World Baseball and Softball Confederation are under investigation for money laundring. According to the article, the sports federation of Panama complained about the price of game balls, provided by the WBSC. As a result, there was a fiscal inspection that made clear…
Recently, yours truly had a conversation with a baseball loving friend about the four baseball academies in the Netherlands and how they select players. In this conversation, yours truly expressed his doubt about children of poor families being selected because playing for an academy is rather expensive. We both thought that children from poor families…
Two years ago, Matt Burns and his son visited all Major League and Minor League ballparks in their home state California. The planing was to visit sixteen ballparks in eighteen days in the Carolinas in 2020 but the corona virus threw a spanner in the works. But now, Matt and his dad are making up…
Once in a while you see an incredible play that deserves the nomination “play of the year.” Last night, Monte Harrison made a play like that. In last night’s game between the Charlotte Knights and the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (that name should be forbidden), outfielder Monte Harrison made an incredible catch. Not only did he…
Today, I watched another great documentary on Youtube. This one was about the Brooklyn Dodgers. The documentary started around 1941, the year they won their first pennant since 1920. Of course the move to Los Angeles, orchestrated by villain Walter O’Money is given attention too. This is a long one, about 1 hour and 58…
As you may know by now, yours truly is a cap enthusiast or a cap nut if you want to. I love to wear authentic baseball caps. Since my aversion of MLB, I turned to Minor League caps and caps of European clubs more and more. But what bugs me is the lack of accuracy…
As I wrote in one of my previous blog posts (the one about Ballparks Around the World), I watched a baseball documentary named “Summer Ball.” It is about a collegiate woodbat team in the community of Bancroft, Iowa. This community has a population of about 730 and baseball is the thing that bonds the people…
