Lang leefde TIW Survivors tussen hoop en vrees. De hoop was tegen beter weten in want uiteindelijk stemde de meerderheid van de gemeenteraad vanavond in met het verlenen van een krediet van 2,5 miljoen Euro voor een herinrichting van sportpark De Diemen. Het gevolg is dat TIW Survivors zal moeten verhuizen naar het nabijgelegen terrein…
After Rangers Redipuglia, Grizzlies Torino, Nettuno Baseball City now Nettuno 2 has announced to withdraw from the 2020 Serie A1 season. As a result, the schedule of which the Dutch Baseball Hangout wrote about earlier this evening, can be thrown away again. Since the afternoon, a lot of rumors about Nettuno 2 stepping back were…
While we are still waiting for the schedule of the Dutch Hoofdklasse season, the FIBS has posted the schedule of the 2020 Italian Serie A1 on its website. As written before, the season will start on Wednesday, July 8. In the first game that will be played this year, Nettuno 2 will host Godo Knights. …
Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. We continue with the letter: N…
After Minor League Baseball announced the cancellation of the 2020 season, the Mexican League, that is also considered an AAA minor league, though not affiliated to any MLB club, also announced the cancellation of the 2020 season today. COMUNICADO OFICIAL Los 16 equipos del circuito, en conjunto con la Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, toman la…
Yesterday, when the news was announced that the 2020 Minor League Season was cancelled, one minor league team reacted in a typical Minor League way. By offering some quirky t-shirt for sale. The Bowie BaySox, the AA affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, came up with an “undefeated” tour T-shirt. Can it be more minor league…
In this episode of Baseball Shorts, we pay attention to the term Baseball Annie. What does the term mean and where does it come from? Read on and you will learn (in case you did not know it yet). A Baseball Annie is a woman who follows baseball players very closely and who is “easy”…
It sounds almost unbelievable but it happened today 104 years ago. (Hall of) Fame(d) shortstop Honus Wagner hit his final round-tripper that happened to be an inside-the-park home run. In the fourth inning, Wagner goes deep off Reds’ right-hander Elmer Knetzer in the team’s 2-1 victory at Cincinnati’s Redland Field. Even at the wrong side…
In a statement by MLB tonight, it was announced that they will not provide MiLB teams with players for the 2020 season. Even though there was still some hope, we all knew that this would happen. Minor League President and CEO Pat O’Conner stated that thanks to this decision, there is an end to uncertainty….
Today, Italy’s oldest baseball club, Nettuno BC 1945 (BC stands for Baseball Club) presented its new road jersey through Facebook. A true thing of beauty. Normally I do not pay attention to second-tier league teams (Nettuno BC 1945 is playing in the Italian Serie A2). If I have to do that, I won’t have time…
