Today, 86 years ago, an exhibition game between the Boston Braves and the North Carolina State Wolfpack was called due to a lack of baseballs. When the lowly Boston Braves were on their way back home after spring training, they halted in Raleigh, North Carolina to take on the Wolfpack in an exhibition game. Not…
In a Championship Series that became closer than was expected after two games, Alanzanes de Granma clinched a comeback from behind victory in game six to win this year’s Cuban title. After trailing 5-1 the team managed to come back and win it in the ninth. After the Alazanes took a 2-0 lead in games,…
Tonight, game six of the Cuban Championship Series is played. The score in games is 3-2 in favor of Alazanes de Granma. The Cocodrilos de Matanzas needs to win today to avoid elimination. Enjoy.
In order to get rid of the WordPress reference, the Dutch Baseball Hangout WordPress account has been updated. As a result, there is a different URL without the name WordPress in it. The WordPress reference was bothering me for quite a while but to change it, you needed an upgrade of your account. Eventually after…
A name that will be familiar to Austrian and Dutch baseball fans. Melvin Perdue. Melvin spent time in Austria with the Attnang-Puchheim Athletics and played in the Netherlands with DSS from Haarlem and Oosterhout Twins. Now the friendly American is ready for a return to Europe, Austria to be precise. Since Melvin is hired as…
After what has happened in the past year in MLB (not punishing the Astros players that cheated their way to the 2017 World Series win, fighting with players about who should pay for the losses of the 2020 season, and the mutilation of Minor League Baseball), I loathe MLB and its greedy owners. But yesterday,…
The baseball club that will represent Rimini in the Serie A this season has presented its logo today. The club is a merger/cooperation of five baseball clubs located in the city at the Adriatic Coast. Below you can see the logos of the clubs that has decided to cooperate to bring Serie A baseball back…
While in the US, some baseball clubs have appointed female coaches, the Austrian Dornbirn Indians have assigned a woman as their head coach. The Bundesliga club has named US citizen Marin Pschorr as their new head coach. Pschorr wasn’t the first choice of the club. But after the first two candidates could not join the…
With a big wink to the parent club, the new AA farm team of the Yankees have unveiled their new uniforms. Once again, a minor league club wants to look like the parent club. The Somerset Patriots did not only leave their identity behind by joining the new style Minor League Baseball that is now…
It is Friday again. The herald of a long weekend. Time for another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic on Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy.
