Hell has frozen over. Yesterday you could read here that the Toronto Blue Jays will raise the salary of their minor leaguers with 50%. According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, MLB appears to follow suit. According to Passan, Major League Baseball has reportedly suggested changes that would improve minor league playing conditions during a collective-bargaining…
Today (March 19) in 1969 a woman filed a lawsuit against what is known today as Minor League Baseball, as the governing body refused to give her a job because of her gender. Bernie Gera, a secretary from Jackson Heights, New York, filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball today in 1969. The baseball-crazed woman…
Where the “Save America’s Pastime Act” was designed to keep the salaries of Minor Leaguers low after a thorough lobby by MLB, the Toronto Blue Jays have chosen to go another way. Instead of keeping the salaries of their minor leaguers low, the club has decided to raise them. According to sources, the club will…
Runner up in last year’s Holland Series, L&D Amsterdam Pirates have acquired a new player from the Isle of Curaçao. The 24-year old lefty Johan Rifaela will join the club before the start of the upcoming season. Rifaela has played for the Santa Maria Pirates during the 2018 season. He is a very versatile pitcher…
The title of this blog post may tell you it is about St. Patrick’s Day. Next, to being the very first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Reds had another first in the history of baseball. In 1978 during a St. Patrick’s Day practice game, the team donned Green jerseys instead of their traditional red ones….
After a blog post about the comic “Peanuts” and baseball, I thought it would be nice to describe how peanuts became a common thing in baseball. We all know the verse of “Take me out to the ballgame”, “Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks.” Since this song is from 1908 it means that the legume…
After the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokio, when baseball will be part of the Olympic program, baseball games in international tournaments will last seven innings instead of the nine we are used to. President of the WBSC, Riccardo Fraccari presented that idea during a visit to the Cuban capital Havanna. With this draconian move, Fraccari…
According to the Italian baseball website grandelsam.net, former MLB pitcher Peter Moylan had signed a deal with A.S.D. Rimini Pirates. But the sudden departure the president of the club, who moved to Nettuno and took several players with him, led to the downfall of Rimini and the demotion to the third division and left Moylan…
If there is one comic intertwined with baseball, it is Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz. The comic that first appeared on October 2nd, 1950 and ran 50 years until February 13, 2000, the day after Schultz passed away, paid attention to baseball about ten percent of all episodes. A comic about American kids should contain…
With the installment of the sods, the new home of the Las Vegas Aviators starts to look like a real ballpark. A good looking one indeed. The new grass was laid on Thursday, a few weeks before the new Pacific Coast League season will start. With seats installed in most of the sections of the…
