Many of us will know Durham Athletic Park from the movie Bull Durham. Before the Durham Bulls moved into DAP or El Toro in those days, they played their home games at Hanes Field of Trinity College from 1912-1926. On July 7 1926 the Bulls moved into El Toro, then a wooden ballpark. Seven years…
While surfing the net I bumped into this interesting article. It claims that pitcher contracts are no longer based on ERA. I am not an expert on stats. It’s even worse, I think that stats are plain boring. Of course they are useful, but in general I am not really interested in them. I always…
Next to Jair Jurrjens and 22 others, Roger Bernadina received an invitation for the Rockies’ Spring Training Camp. In December last year, Bernadina signed a Minor League conract with the club from Denver. The Curacao born Bernadina played a total of 548 games at MLB level. His best season was in 2012 when he hit…
This morning I wrote that Jackie Robinson West might have been cheating. Chicago Little League would consider what to do. I wrote “To be continued”. Talk about continuation. Jackie Robinson West was stripped from its American title by Little League baseball. What was the reason for this decision? In December 2014 accusations were made about…
Last week I wrote about the special member’s meeting of baseball club ADOLakers. Even though the required 3/4 of the members did not show up in the clubhouse, the available memvers voted to dismantle the club. This means that the club will be withdrawn from the Dutch Hoofdklasse.ADOLakers is the fifth club since 1988 that…
On the website of ESPN there is an article about an alleged scam by the 2014 winner of the Little League World Series American Title, Great Lakes (Jackie Robinson West). The team is accused by an official with a suburban athletic organization of violating residency rules by bringing in suburban players to improve its roster….
In my post about Rickwood Field I wrote that that was the oldes still standing ballpark in the US. Well, today I learned that that is not the case. I have made a correction. It is the oldest standing ballpark where professional baseball is played, even though it is only once per year. The (arguably)…
It was fifty-five years ago that the Cuban representative Elefantes de Cienfuegos won the last Caribbean Series in which the island participated. After Fidel Castro overthrew the regime of dictator Bautista, the island withdrew from the tournament, making it disappear for ten years. In 1970 the series were reborn and the Dominican Republic took Cuba’s…
After years without a Cuban representative the Caribbean Series added a Cuban team to the lineup of teams in 2014. Cuba lost all games but one and did not reach the semi-finals. This year the Cubans sent their national champion Pinar de Rio. But unlike last year, this year’s Cuban team was heavily fortified with…
This morning I read at Fox Sports.com that the new MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is willing to open the door of Cooperstown for Pete Rose. Normally Pete Rose would have been a fix for the Hall of Fame, but in his role as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, he bet on games in which his…
