Also in the Netherlands, the government announced a series of facilitation but also limited several sports to take place before September 1st as contact sports are forbidden. With baseball considered a contact sport, starting a decent competition after September 1st will be very hard. Playing baseball with keeping 1.5 meters distance is pretty hard as…
Two days ago, the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) announced that in the upcoming 2020 season, no teams will relegate or will be promoted. Time for clubs to think about how to spend their resources. With no baseball played so far and the season still up in the air, it remains to be…
According to the local journal, Haarlems Dagblad, the five fields at the beautiful complex of Hoofddorp Pioniers are damaged. Even this bad, it is not possible to play. The massive presence of the larvae of mosquitos has damaged the fields almost beyond repair. The larvae are eating the roots of the grass. As a…
Last night, the Dutch government announced new measures to contain the coronavirus. Two measures caught the eye and may influence Dutch baseball. The first measure is that festivals and events will be banned until September 1. For Dutch soccer, this also means that the current season will be canceled. Nothing was said about it because…
In the past, I have made several blog posts about my ten favorite MLB, MiLB, Dutch and European caps. This time I want to post an overview of the ten caps of my own collection that I like best. Nr. 10: High Desert Mavericks This is the former home cap of the now-defunct High Desert…
Throughout the world, baseball is shut down due to the coronavirus. The sole exception is Taiwan, where the CPBL started this week without fans in the stands. But elsewhere clubs struggle to stay afloat. Take Europe for example. Baseball season hasn’t started yet and the question remains if there WILL be any baseball in 2020….
I bumped into this English baseball newsletter created in 1973. It was tweeted by @ExtrainningsUK. It is nice to see how people from abroad are writing about the Netherlands. In this newsletter, it is written that former MLB commissioner Bowie Kuhn visited the Netherlands during the 1973 European Championship and regarded the Dutch turf better…
2019 runner up in the Dutch championship, Curaçao Neptunus has extended the contract with its main sponsor United Foundation, the club announced through a press release today. The Curaçao-based foundation promotes the Isle of Curaçao in various ways. One of them is by sponsoring multiple Dutch baseball champion Neptunus from Rotterdam. The 2020 season (or…
A day after the announcement that the start of the Dutch hoofdklasse season was postponed until further notice, the Dutch baseball community has to deal with another blow. The organizing committee of the Haarlem Baseball Week has announced to cancel the 2020 edition. After the Dutch government announced more restrictive measures to contain the coronavirus,…
Today, the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation), announced the postponement of the upcoming baseball season. For sure, the season will not start before April 27. But as the Dutch government announced new measures due to the stubbornness of several people not to follow the rules that should prevent a rapid spread of the…
