You may all remember the closer from the Dominican Republic, Fernando Rodney. He had an impressive seventeen-year career in the Bigs but after that, he kept playing, mainly in Mexico. Apparently, the fourty-seven-year old is not tired of baseball as he has landed in Canada, where he has joined the Hamilton Cardinals. It is not…
Yes!!! It is that time of the week again. Let’s celebrate the upcoming weekend with another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday,” with Charly Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy (your weekend)!
It is know for a while that the Los Angeles Dodgers will move their A-ball team from Rancho Cucamonga to Ontario (the city in California, not the province in Canada) next year. Here is a sneak preview of how the ballpark will look like. With this move, there will be quite a musical chairs in…
In today’s episode of Baseball Shorts, we pay attention to the expression Bench Jockey. Not to be confused with Bench Warmer or Discjockey. A bench jockey is a player, coach or manager with the talent of annoying and distracting opposition players and umpires from his team’s dugout with verbal wit. Especially useful against those with rabbit ears (a participant…
A complete round but one game was played today in the Belgian Division One. The one game that caught the eye today was the second game of the double header between the Namur Angels and the Deurne Spartans. Namur Angels 15 – 2 Deurne Spartans A sensational victory for the Namur Angels over the Deurne…
Yesssss. It that time of the week again. To celebrate the upcoming weekend, here is another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy (your weekend).
In late August 2024, historic Jay Littleton Ball Park burned down to the ground. Since then, local baseball fans are trying to raise funds to rebuild the ballpark. For nearly ninety years, Jay Littleton Ball Park was a beloved part of Ontario, California until a few screetchy pukes (pardon my French) set the wooden grandstand…
After yesterday’s blogpost about the Pimento Cheese cap of the Augusta GreenJackets, there is another food related blogpost today: The hot dog. We all know the hot dog. A long bun with a frankfurter sausage inside with some additives like sauerkraut, baked onions, mustard and ketchup. There is a broad variety of hot dogs, one…
As an avid ball cap collector, I could lay my hands on a couple of caps of the Augusta GreenJackets in 2023. One of them was the Pimento Cheese cap. But how did the club come to this alternate identity? Read on and you will learn. The athletic trainer, who is a Dutchman and played…
In today’s episode of baseball related songs, we pay attention to Zanzibar, performed by Billy Joel. At first one can wonder what this song has to do with baseball, but there is more than is apparent to the eye. We all know Billy Joel, famous for songs like “We didn’t start the fire”, “River of…
