In today’s episode of “Baseball Related Songs” we pay attention to “Green Onions” performed by Booker T and the M.G.s. This piece of music is actually an instrumental piece instead of a song. Green Onions is such a typical piece of music from the 1960s. Typcal for that era is the use of a Hammond…
In the past few years, the classification of the several Dutch baseball leagues was rather confusing. In the upcoming season that problem will be solved. For decades there was the highest league, the hoofdklasse, followed by the overgangsklasse ( literally translated as transition league), the eerste klasse (first league), tweede klasse (second league), etc. down…
A bit later than usual but Yours Truly has been pretty busy so far today. But once again it is time for… another episode of Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday to kick off the weekend. Enjoy.
Due to the coronavirus, several European leagues played games of seven innings instead of nine. The Belgian Baseball Gold League was one of them. Also the Italian Serie A1 played seven innings. But with the latter, there was more behind this decision. At the start of the 2020 season in Italy, there was a video…
The 2020 World Series are played at Globe Life Field, the home ballpark of the Texas Rangers. With the Series played in the same ballpark, the 2020 World Series is the fourth of which all games are played in the same stadium. The very first World Series that was played in the same stadium was…
Most of you will know Bob Uecker but mainly because of his role of Harry Doyle in Major League. Despite his abysmal stats, he still managed to stay in the bigs for six seasons. But Uecker was best known for his quotes. Here is an anthology. Uecker was mostly a backup catcher in six…
Italy’s oldest baseball club, Nettuno BC 1945, has earned a promotion to the Serie A1. As several teams dropped out of the Serie A1 before the start of the season, some rumors swirled around that Nettuno BC 1945 would join the Serie A1 but the team just started at the second-tier league Serie A2. Mostly…
After a season that stated later than usual and that was ended abruptly by the decision of the Dutch government, the KNBSB decided that no champion will be appointed after the Holland Series were cancelled. For the first time since Dutch baseball started a league (1922), a season will end without a champion. Even during…
Today, 31 years ago, the World Series were rudely interrupted by a 6.9 Earthquake. At the time two teams of the Bay Area in California were preparing themselves for game three of what was called the Bay Bridge Series. In the series between the American League champion Oakland Athletics and the National League champion San…
A bit late today. But better late than never. Another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday. Just to kick off the weekend. Enjoy.
