The third Curacao Baseball Week was another success. The week started with a press conference and an auction/charity dinner. The dinner raised $40,000 and this painting was one of the items: On the first two days, the coach seminars were attended very well. Managers and coaches like Hensley Meulens, Steve Janssen and Ben Thijssen shared their…
The Adelaide Bite did some good business today as they won both games of a double header vs the Sydney Blue Sox. Game one was won with a slim margin of one run: 4-3. In the second game, the Blue Sox and the Bite scored a lot of runs in the first ininng. Sydney took…
After two good performances, team Europe couldn’t keep the upward trent. In nine innings they were outscored 9-0 and outhit 14-5. Where they were more or less still in the game at the end of the eighth inning, trailing 5-0, the final blow was dealt in the top of the ninth. Pitcher Lukas Dickmann gave…
As the name of the league indicates, the Buckeye League was located in Ohio. The started in 1915 but it did not finish the season as the league crumbled after two of its teams pulled back during the season. Cities represented: Akron, OH: Akron Rubbermen 1915 Canton, OH: Canton Giants 1915 Findlay, OH: Findlay Finns…
Today Loek van Mil earned his first save in the Australian Baseball League. In the game vs the Sydney Blue Sox, the towering Dutch reliever, entered the game for the Adelaide Bite in the ninth inning. Throughout the game, the score went back and forth. The Blue Sox took a 1-0 lead in the first…
Another report of the European team during the Asia Baseball Winter League . In a in which the score went back and forth, team Europe took on the KBO (Korean Baseball Organization) today. European starter Maickel Rietel was hit hard in 1.1 inning of work in which he allowed four runs. A throwing error led to two…
The Arizona Diamondbacks unveiled the much anticipated new uniforms. Normally when a team comes up with new unis, it is about three or four new jerseys and caps that come with it, but in the case of the D-Backs it is about eight (!) new uniforms. Quite an overload. Except for the script and the…
As you could read here recently: Cuban baseball is hot. This time MLB will make an effort to improve the relationship between the USA and Cuba even more by visiting the island during a goodwill tour. MLB will send Joe Torre, Dave Winfield and MLBPA executive director Tony Clark to Cuba on a goodwill tour….
Another team that announces a rebranding this off sesason. This time the Norfolk Tides (AAA International League affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles). The colors of the team turn from blue into green, warship grey, orange (representing the Orioles) and black. The new logo, jersey and caps continue to show the nautical theme that the Tides…
Another daily report of the Asia Winter League. Today team Europe clinched the first win of the Asia Winter Baseball League. Against the delegation of the NPB from Japan, to whom they lost 24-3 two days ago, the Europeans played a lot better this time. For three innnings neither teams did not score but in…
