Little did we know when the New York Mets bought the Syracuse Chiefs to become their AAA farm team. Little did we know about the name change that would be coming up. Yesterday the New York Mets announced the new name, colors, and uniforms of their new AAA farm team. The Chiefs will adopt a new…
Rumors have been swirling around the last few days. And the added photo are feeding the rumors even more. The Miami Marlins will change their look and their logo(s). A lot of fans want to return to the old teal and black colors the Marlins wore in the first few years of their existence. It…
In this episode of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to Steve Goodman once again. And once again the Cubs are in the center of the attention. After “Go Cubs Go”, “A Cubs Dying Cubs Fan’s Request” links Goodman to the Cubs forever. This song is played around the North Side of Chicago at the…
A few years ago you could read a blog post about how to reshape a worn down cap on this blog. It bothered me that old caps lost its shape. That is why I tried to patch them up. It is also possible to make caps that are too big fit. You can read it down…
If everything had happened according to the original schedule, the European Championship would have been played this year. But with baseball becoming an Olympic Sport in Japan, the WBSC Europe (former CBE) decided to push back the tournament so it can serve as pre-qualifier for the Olympic Games. The tournament will be played in 2019…
On July 20, 2019, it will be fifty years ago that the Apollo 11 landed on the moon. This historic event will be commemorated by the Richmond Flying Squirrels with a special space suit themed jersey. The special space suit jerseys are inspired by the suits that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore on their…
Dutch-born Didi Gregorius will be out until next summer due to an elbow injury. The elbow injury is this serious, Didi will need Tommy John surgery. According to Yankees’ manager Aaron Boone, Gregorius injured his elbow in Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Red Sox. Didi is coming off a season that…
In this edition of Baseball related songs, we pay attention to “There used to be a ballpark”, performed by Ol’ Blue Eyes, a.k.a. Frank Sinatra. In this song from his comeback album Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back, Sinatra took a sentimental journey to the Golden Age of baseball when the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York…
The rumours were there for quite a while already. Today the word came out. Manager Charles Urbanus is leaving L&D Amsterdam Pirates. A decision that was made earlier in the season. Urbanus decided to call it quits because he cannot combine the job with his regular (real life) job with Topsport Amsterdam as general manager CTO…
As expected, Curaçao Neptunus won the Dutch championship for the sixth time in a row. After two poor games, the team fought back and won the Holland Series in Six games. In the promotion/relegation series, Silicon Storks from The Hague prolonged its stay in the hoofdklasse with one more year. After Neptunus won 4-1 in…
