When the Batavia MuckDogs did not get an invitation by one of the MLB clubs last month, it was another New York-Penn League whose future was not clear. Today, the city announced it will join the Perfect Game Collegiate League. Former pro hockey player in the American Hockey League and International Hockey League, the 56-year-old…
Since Italian baseball has a problem to come to a twelve-team league, like the FIBS (Italian Baseball and Softball Federation) would like, the FIBS has now made four proposals for a new format of the Italian baseball championship. According to the local newspaper Corriere Romagna, the two most likely plans to be accepted are dealing…
Earlier today, the Sydney Blue Sox announced to have released twelve-time MLB All-Star and two-time World Series Winner, Manny Ramirez without further disclosure of the reason. Now Ramirez is telling the Sydney Morning Herald that he was released due to an obligue injury and that the ongoing medical issue had nothing to do with drugs….
With a lot of fanfare, the Sydney Blue Sox announced the acquisition of former MLB star Manny Ramirez some time ago. But shortly before the ABL season started, the outfielder got injured and wasn’t able to play. Besides his injury, Manny was sidelined due to an undisclosed medical issue. Up till today, he hasn’t played…
In today’s episode of “Baseball Shorts,” we pay attention to the term Emerald Age. Yours truly wasn’t familiar with the term until he bumped into it on a search for the item of today’s episode. The true baseball lover may think of the Eugene Emeralds, when hearing the term Emerald Age. The Emeralds are named…
It is that day of the week again. To celebrate the upcoming weekend, here is another episode of Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang.The real baseball player doesn’t give up with a bit of rain. Enjoy.
Good news!! The Tri-City ValleyCats, treated like dirt by MLB, has found a possibility to stay alive. The team will join the independent Frontier League for the 2021 season. As the Valley Cats were excluded from participating in one of the remaining Minor Leagues, the club from the capital region had to look for other…
Former MLB star Andruw Jones will join an effort by the Curaçao Government and the ARBJ Foundation to build a new Little League Ballpark on the Caribbean Island. Jones, the Curaçao Government and the ARBJ Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU for short) for the construction of this state of the art ballpark. A…
In a memo sent by MLB to all minor league clubs that are left, it was announced that the start of AA and A Ball will be delayed in 2021 as a result of Covid-19. The memo said that Spring Training for the aforementioned levels cannot start until after MLB and AAA players have left…
During a world tour in which several European Countries were visited, the French Baseball Federation honors New Giants manager John McGraw and Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey with a medal for their efforts to promote the game of baseball in France. This world tour started in 1924 in Canada and would sail the Atlantic…
