Today in 1942, the Texas League announced it would cease activities as a result of the Second World War. A little less than three months after the US has been dragged into the war because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Texas League was one of the first minor leagues to cease activities….
The KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) has released the competition schedule of the Dutch hoofdklasse. The Dutch season will start on Thursday, April 4 and the final game of the regular season will be played on July 28. With the upcoming European Championship in early September, followed by the Olympic Qualifier, the Dutch…
Don Newcombe, the legendary pitcher of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who recently passed away, had a “secret” I did not know about. In the final year of his baseball career, Newcomb played in Japan. Not as a pitcher but as a position player. In 1962, the year the New York Yankees won their last World Series…
It was a busy offseason regarding new MiLB names and logos. No less than nine clubs presented a new look of which one still has to move to the new city. The Rocket City TrashPandas only exist in name as the team will play its swan song as the Mobile BayBears in 2019. Minor League…
The Michigan Ontario League was a Class B league that started in 1919 and lasted for six and a part of a seventh season. The end of the league came halfway 1926 when it merged with the Central League to form the Michigan State League. The Michigan Ontario League or Mint League (MIchigan-oNTario) as it…
Today in 1970, Gold Glove outfielder Curt Flood, after refusing to report at Spring Training of the Philadelphia Phillies after he was traded by the St. Louis Cardinals, filed a lawsuit against MLB’s commissioner Bowie Kuhn and all 24 MLB teams. Flood’s case even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Three-time All-Star, seven-time Gold…
Today, New York Yankees’ starting pitcher C.C. Sabathia announced his retirement after the 2019 season. The tall lefthander will have spent a total of nineteen seasons in the Major Leagues then. During a press conference in Tampa, during the Yankees’ Spring Training, Sabathia told the attendants he will hang up his spikes after the 2019…
In this episode of Baseball related songs a second song of the Baseball Project, “1976.” In one of the previous posts about Baseball related songs, we paid attention to “Satchel Paige said“. The Baseball Project was formed in 2007 by Peter Buck, Mike Mills (both R.E.M.), Scott McCaughey (The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5), Steve Wynn…
This year, MLB will celebrate the 150th anniversary of professional baseball. In 1869, the Cincinnati Reds were baseball’s first fully paid team. All 30 MLB teams will wear the special patch on the right sleeve of their jerseys all season long. Next to the patch on the right sleeve, all 30 clubs will wear a…
With a partial owner and a manager with a Yankee past already, the third former Yankee will join the Miami Marlins. Even though it is not official yet, former Yankee catcher Jorge Posada is spotted at the Marlins’ Spring Training camp already. According to sources, Posada will join the Marlins as a special advisor to…
