Since their return in the Dutch hoofdklasse, Oosterhout Twins has acquired a Japanese pitcher every season. This year that won’t be any different. What will be different is that these pitchers will come from a club from the Japanese Baseball Challenge League, one of the premier Independent Leagues in Japan. This morning, Martin Aaldijk and…
Last week, the German 1. Bundesliga South had the scoop of being the first league to start the season in Europe. This weekend, three other countries will start their baseball season. In Germany there is this curious situation that only the Southern Division has started play. In the North, local corona rules do not allow…
Boy, are you lucky today!! Here is another edition of Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday, just because. Enjoy.
The news about this team is not as new as the title suggests but the Spartanburgers are the latest addition to the Coastal Plain League. The relevation of the team name happened in February but recently the team presented its uniforms for the 2021 season. And they are sick. The logos of the Spartanburgers refer…
Yes!!! It’s that time of the week again. Time for another episode of Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy.
The three Canadian teams in the Frontier League are facing some choices before the start of the upcoming season. During the owner meeting in Orlando, they got two options and they have a week to decide. Just like last year, baseball is still bothered by COVID19. As a result, the three Canadian teams in the…
After, Quick Amersfoort, Silicon Storks, Oosterhout Twins, DSS/Kinheim and HCAW, L&D Amsterdam Pirates is the sixth Dutch hoofdklasse teams that is collecting money through crowdfunding in an attempt to be able to pay for the costs of corona tests. Dutch hoofdklasse clubs are allowed to train in groups if the players are tested for corona…
Apparently, April 7 is a good day to launch baseball movies. Today, 45 years ago and 28 years ago, two of the best baseball movies were released. On this day, in 1976, the Bad News Bears was released. The movie is about a crappy little league team with Walter Matthau as as an alcoholic ex-baseball…
Today, 48 years ago, the designated hitter made its first appearance in the American League. On this day, there were some firsts regarding this newly created “position.” On the Opening Day game in Boston between the Red Sox and the Yankees, Ron Bloomberg of the Yankees is the first designated hitter in the AL. In…
Nowadays, we don’t know any better. A baseball game lasts nine innings. Except in Europe and during international tournaments where games can last only seven innings due to the mercy-rule (with a ten-run difference). But there was a time in which there was no rule that baseball games had to last nine innings. Read on…
