The games between the Softbank Haws and the Rakuten Golden Eagles of Friday and Saturday were cancelled due to the earthquakes that struck the area south of Fukuoka on the island of Kyushu the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan. After the area was hit by a powerful earthquake on Thursday, another one…
The inaugural season of the Euro League Baseball will start coming Tuesday when the Buchbinder Legionäre from Regensburg will visit Draci Brno for a two game series. In May 2015 the announcement of the ELB shook up the European baseball community. The inaugural season will start on April 19. To make this European professional league…
Today day two of round one was played. One game, the one between L&D Amsterdam Pirates and Vaessen Pioniers, was rained out. The other games were De Glaskoning Twins vs Curacao Neptunus, Kinheim vs HCAW and UVV vs DSS. UVV 8 – 2 DSS Despite two errors, UVV stayed at the right side of the…
MLB.com announced today that former manager, Jim Leyland will be at the helm of team USA during the World Baseball Classic in 2017. It will be the first time since the 2013 ALCS that Leyland will guide a team. In that year the Tigers fell to the Boston Red Sox. As a manager, Leyland has…
A very short one this time. There is hardly anything to find about this defunct league. After a lot of digging, this was the best that I could offer. Because of the lack of information and photos it is rather unadorned. The Eastern Kansas League was a Class D league that was founded in 1910,…
After a long winter the Dutch baseball season took off today, at least for the highest league, the Dutch Hoofdlasse. De Glaskoning Twins took on Curacao Neptunus. Notable fact is that Twins was the home team because their ballpark still does not have a proper lighting system. Corendon Kinheim from Haarlem hosted HCAW from Bussum,…
Tonight Curacao Neptunus held their yearly presentation of their flagship team. The event in their clubhouse took about half an hour. In the short event, chairman of the club Georffrey Kohl, who was also a successful pitcher with the club, reviewed the past season in which the club won the Dutch national title, the European…
Every year MLB teams sport a couple of special jerseys and caps to celebrate special days like Independence Day or Memorial Day. This year will not be any different when it comes to the two aforementioned holidays. But next to these two, MLB comes up with four more special caps and jerseys. Mother’s Day will…
The season is far from over yet but the news about the extension of Player Development Contracts keeps coming. This time the Buffalo Bisons announced the extension of the PDC with the Toronto Blue Jays. Unlike the announcements of the past few weeks, this extension will be only for two years, through the 2018 season….
Within a month after the start of the Mexican Baseball League season, Delfines de Ciudad del Carmen released Kalian Sams. Despite getting seven hits in as many games, the Mexican League club thought it was time for him to go. The outfielder from The Hague actually did not do this bad but he has been victimized…
