After winning game 1 and 2 of the promotion/relegation series vs Mampaey the Hawks, Twins from Oosterhout (province of North Brabant in the South of the Netherlands) was one win away from promotion to the Dutch Hoofdklasse. In a game that never really was a game, Twins never really had to flex its muscles. Mampaey…
When the Staten Island Yankees and the Brooklyn Cyclones (Mets A Short Season affiliate) joined the New York – Penn League in 1999, the Cyclones were an instant success. The Yankees on their turn not so…. The promotion of the team to the New York – Penn League was promising. People would flock into Richmond County…
The KNBSB (the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) announced today in a press release that former MLB pitcher Calvin Maduro has been added to the coaching staff of the Dutch Kingdom team for the Premier 12 tournament. Maduro will serve as the team’s bullpen coach. The 41-year old Aruban native played at several minor league…
The city council of New Britain has agreed with a lease of the vacant stadium of the New Britain Rock Cats. The Rock Cats will move to Hartford, where they will become the YardGoats, so they will leave a basebal void in New Britian. Ever since the Rock Cats announced that they would move to…
I have been mulling all afternoon if I should write something about Yogi Berra’s passing. A bit cheap to write about it as all other baseball websites wrote about it already. But on the other hand, as a Yankee fan I should spend some words on it. Berra signed with the Yankees in 1943 while serving…
The other day I wrote an article about the Fresno Grizzlies and how they turned from a hapless PCL franchise into a PCL champion. Well, they can name themselves overall AAA national champion now. Last night they took on the International League’s Champion Columbus Clippers in the Gildan Triple A National Championship in El Paso….
With the lease of Disney’s Wide World of Sports ending in 2017, the Braves look to move elsewhere. Disney’s Wide World of Sports lured the Braves when the complex was just finished to use it as their Spring Training complex, but nowadays, the Braves are just a minor player at the complex; in other words,…
After two previous years in which the Toronto Blue Jays played a couple of exhibition games in Montreal, it looks like it starts to become a tradition for the Blue Jays to there before the regular season starts. Next year the Blue Jays will take on the Boston Red Sox to conclude the 2016 Spring…
This morning it was announced by Dutch Hoofdklasse club HCAW that three members of the coaching staff will not return to the club next year. Both HCAW and manager Ralph Milliard decided not to continue the cooperation. So after one season, HCAW will have to look for a new manager again. Assistent coach Marlon Frolijk and pitching…
When Phoenix was awarded an MLB franchisein 1998, the local PCL team the Phoenix Firebirds had to move. The San Francisco Giants affliliate moved to Tucson and became the Tucson Sidewinders. Next to moving to Tucson, the team changed affiliations and became the Arizona Diamondbacks’ AAA affiliate. The team that was located in Tucson, the…
