The MLB goodwill tour to Cuba, that will start next week, will have a few surprising participant: Cuban defectors that play in MLB. When I read this, my first thought was “the Cuban government can see this as a provocation”, but now it seems that the Cuban government granted permission to MLB to let them join…
I read a blog post of one of the baseball blogs that I follow, Indyball Island. The writer told that she would participate in the First Annual Blogathon for Charity. This charity will be the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation, which is the charitable arm of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Perhaps you think:”That is in the US….
Yesterday in the article about the history of the California League, I wrote about 2010 plans that optioned a move of the High Desert Mavericks and the Bakersfield Blaze to the Carolina League. Both teams have a difficult time to stay afloat and currently it is hard to move elsewhere as city councils are not…
At the moment, the baseball Winter Meeting is going on. One of the teams that is on the market to be sold/bought is the Lynchburg HillCats. The HillCats are still owned by the Lynchburg Baseball Corp, but soon that will change. The Elmore Sports Group is hammering out a deal with the LBC and a…
In this game Europe took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Urving Kemp led off with a single towards third base followed by a single through the middle of the infield, hit by Maick Ehmcke. Both runners advanced on a wild pitch by Sungki Min. A ground out towards first base…
www.diamond-pride.com and yankeebiscuitfan’s Dutch blog have teamed up to a strategic partnership. Diamond-pride is a Munich based baseball webshop that serves the German and Austrian market right now, but an expansion to other markets may be very well possible in the future. Not only does the company sell baseball (related) equipment, it also has its…
Through the decades there have been several leagues that named themselves California League. The first one started in 1886 and lasted through 1889. The second league, that carried the name started in 1891 and lasted a year. The third edition only lasted the 1893 season before a fourth lasted five years from 1898 through 1902….
I have to stop saying things like “It looks like they start to hit better”. I said that in the report of the game between team Europe and team KBO. But in the last two games Europe was shutout twice. Yesterday 9-0 and today… In the first inning the CPBL delegation got on the board…
In a move made by the often puzzled Marlins front office, Barry Bonds was signed to become their new hitting coach. I write “often puzzled” because the Marins often make moves that are questionable to put it mildly. The appointment of GM Dan Jennings as the club’s manager was one of them. But this move…
In the fourth game of the week between the Adelaide Bite and the Sydney Blue Sox, it wasn’t Loek van Mil who was in the center of the attention this time. The Sydney Blue took a decisive 13-3 lead in the first three innings as they scored four runs in the first, four in the…
