In the second game that the European delegation played at the Asia Winter League, team Chinese Taipei was too strong. One of the highlights was the 2-6 double play that Italian catcher Alberto Mineo made in the first inning. Another positive thing was that starting pitcher Maickel Rietel pitched three good frames before he was…
Recently you could read here that two teams from the Italian Baseball League faced financial difficulties. ASD Baseball Parma and BSC Nettuno, two former baseball power houses are on the brink of withdrawal from the IBL due to these financial problems . Two days ago, www.baseball.it published that another team from the IBL has announced that…
The Asia Winter Baseball league has started again. Teams with talented young players will participate. This year, like every year, the Japanese NPB, the Korean KBO and the Taiwanese CPBL will send a team. But this year the European Baseball League, CBE, will send a delegation too. This team will replace the Dominican Republic….
Yesterday the third Curacao Baseball Week started with a press conference. Attendants were (amongst others) initiators Blue Bay Resort Curacao, Hensley Meulens, Ben Thijssen and Jair Jurrjens. During the first two days, clinics will be organized for local coaches. Next to Hensley Meulens, Steve Janssen (KNBSB), Ron Wotus (San Francisco Giants), Martijn Nijhoff (KNBSB) and…
Trading players is from all times. But one trade is weirder than the other. Here is an overview of weird trades that happened through the history of baseball. In 1994, the Minnesota Twins traded future Hall of Famer Dave Winfield to the Cleveland Indians for player to be named later. But when the season was…
The Blue Ridge League was located in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia. The league was founded in 1915 and had headquarters in Hagerstown. It started with six teams, as the National Commission (now known as National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or NAPB) required. Charles H. Boyer, who also owned the Hagerstown…
Today this blog reached the milestone of 100,000 hits. It took longer than a year. Fifteen months to be exact. Perhaps this milestone could have been reached sooner if I had brought my laptop with me during my vacation. But I felt that I needed a break from everything I do in regular life. Anyhow,…
Korean first baseman Dae-Ho Lee, who won the inaugural Premier12 last week with the Korean national team, will visit the USA in December to see if he can sign a contract wtih an MLB club. According to his representative Montis Sports Management Group, several big league clubs are interested in the slugger. That Lee is eager…
The last few weeks this blog has reported about several extensions of Player Development Contracts. Today there is another one. The Cleveland Indians and the Columbus Clippers (AAA, International League winner of 2015) announced that they have extended their PDC through the 2018 season. This season the Clippers won the championship of the Intenrational League,…
As the name indicates, the Blue Grass League was located in Kentucky. There were two leagues with the same name. The first operated five seasons from 1908 through 1912, the second lasted three seasons from 1922 through 1924. The 1908-1912 edition operated as a Class D league. In the five seasons of the 1908-1912 Blue Grass…
