Minor League Baseball is known for its wacky promotions to lure fans to the ballparks. Next week, the Missoula Paddleheads will have one that includes a certain alcoholic beverage. The Missoula Paddleheads of the “independent” Pioneer League (you know, one of those leagues that that were cut by MLB to save the greedy MLB owners…
Time flies. The Dutch hoofdklasse is entering its fourth week already. Tonight’s games: DSS/Kinheim @ Curaçao Neptunus, Quick Amersfoort @ HCAW, Silicon Storks @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates, and Hoofddorp Pioniers @ Oosterhout Twins (in Hoofddorp). DSS/Kinheim 0 – 13 Curaçao NeptunusClearly, Neptunus woke up after last Sunday’s loss vs Hoofddorp Pioniers. The team went on…
In this episode of “Ballparks Around the World” we pay attention to one of the newest ballparks in AAA: Las Vegas Ballpark in Summerlin, Nevada, home of the Las Vegas Aviators. This episode comes rather quick after the previous one about Blacktown Baseball Stadium in Sydney, but yours truly bumped into a video of a…
And there we have it. The other day, one could read about the questionable status of the Olympic Qualifier due to the spike in corona contaminations in Taiwan. Today a Taiwanese newspaper spread the news that the island state has forfeited the right to organize the final Olympic Qualifier. According to Liberty Sports, Taiwan has…
How cool is this? An umpire who is catching some warmup pitches until the catcher is coming out of the dugout. When do you see this? I think this is awesome. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPA_aeiAXlW/?utm_medium=copy_link
In this episode of “Baseball Related Songs,” we pay attention to another song of singer song writer Willy Tea Taylor: “Knuckleball Prime,” which is the title song of his sophomore album with the same name. Willy Tea Taylor grew up on Oakville, California, a town that is know as cowboy capital of the world as…
Tonight three games, that were rained out previously, were played: Oosterhout Twins @ Quick Amersfoort, HCAW @ L&D Amsterdam Pirates, and DSS/Kinheim @ Hoofddorp Pioniers. Oosterhout Twins 6 – 3 Quick AmersfoortFor three innings, Jakob Syrén kept his former club in check rather well as he allowed two hits, but in the fourth, the Twins…
On this day in 1980, a game of the Spokane Indians was cancelled because the ballpark was covered with a layer of Ash. This was the day that Mount St. Helens erupted and destroyed a big part of the surrounding area. The eruption was predicted by geologists who had registered several tremors on their seismographs…
With round three almost in the books, it is time for another set of summaries. Only the third game between Oosterhout Twins and Quick Amersfoort is missing because it was rained out. That game will be played on Tuesday, May 18. Hoofddorp Pioniers vs Curaçao Neptunus https://eyecons.com/videos/pioniers-dient-neptunus-eerste-nederlaag-toe-9161 L&D Amsterdam vs DSS/Kinheim https://eyecons.com/videos/ld-amsterdam-sterker-dan-dsskinheim-9164 HCAW vs Silicon…
A few weeks ago, you could read here about Dave Janssen earning player of the week honors in the ICCAC for his school Indian Hills Warriors. At the end of the season, things got even better for Dave. Dave and his team won the region championship by beating Iowa Western Reivers 4-3 (loss), 6-2 (win),…
