The only affiliated minor league club in Canada, the Vancouver Canadians (A Short Season, Northwest League) has signed a PDC extension with the only MLB club in Canada, the Toronto Blue Jays through the 2018 season. In the past season, the Canadians set an attendance record with 215,595 fans that passed the turnstiles of Nat…
This is far from Dutch baseball news, but it sure is worth mentioning because you hardly hear anything about Lithuanian baseball. Lithuanian right handed pitcher, Dovydas Neverauskas has received an invitation for the MLB Spring Training camp of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The 23-year old will report at Bradenton, the Pirates ST facility and also home of…
The Boston Red Sox and their A Full Season affiliate, the Greenville Drive, have extended their player development contract through the 2020 season. The cooperation between the two clubs stated in 2005, when the South Atlantic League club moved from Columbia SC to Greenville to become the Drive (eventually). The last time that the Red Sox extended…
The Copper Country Soo League was a minor league that was situated in the area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, an area that is better known for its hockey history than for its baseball history. The league contained teams from mining towns along the Soo Line Railroad. The league was first recognized by the the National Association of Professional…
The Australia Baseball League finished the regular season today. With the Brisbane Bandits, the Adelaide Bite and the Canberra Cavalry, there is only one profitable team that has reached the post season. The other one, the Perth Heat, was out of contention weeks ago. This season’s attendance figures have not been published yet, but during…
A lot of news about players from Curacao and Aruba came out today. First of all Xander Bogaerts received the MVP trophy of the Boston Red Sox. To me it doesn’t come as a surprise after I wrote about the possibility of Bogaerts being the AL MVP. The BWAA writers of the Boston region voted for…
Sharlon Schoop, the older brother of Jonathan, signed a one year deal with the Baltimore Orioles. After the 2015 season, the 28-year old opted to become a minor league free agent, but until a few days ago, he wasn’t signed by any team. Eventually Sharlon decided to rejoin the O’s again so he could prepare…
There was a time when Major League Baseball had a similar approach as Minor League Baseball has now. The game was more fun. Players fooled around and there was pre game and in-between-innings entertainment, arranged by baseball clowns. Players like Wiliam Schaefer (Washington Senators), Al Schacht (also Washington Senators) and the 1934 St. Louis Cardinals, known…
Just days after he was voted into the Hall of Fame, the Mariners announced that they will retire Ken Griffey Jr’s number. Griffey will be the first Mariner whose number will be retired. His nr. 24 will hang next to Jackie Robinson’s 42. The event of retiring his number will take place on August 6….
When you ask the average baseball fan what the first televised baseball game was, they will probably answer the one in which the Brooklyn Dodgers hosted the Cincinnati Reds. Wrong!!! The first televised baseball game took place in the same year, 1939, but not on August 26 but on May 17. The college teams of…
