When the FIBS (Federazione Italiana Baseball e Softball) removed the schedules of the Serie A from its website a few days ago, one could imagine that the season would be postponed. The website of the FIBS confirms that the season will be put on hold and that friendly matches cannot be played either. Even though…
Quite a long title for an item called baseball shorts… Anyhow, in this episode of baseball shorts, we will talk about a player who hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat, but never hit one afterward. We are talking about Hoyt Wilhelm, a famed knuckleballer. Old Sarge, as he was nicknamed, Made his…
The former Princeton Rays have unveiled its new name today. Since the club, like the other ones, was left alone by their parent clubs to safe money and the Appy League became a collegiate wood bat league, the Princeton franchise had to look for a different name. The new name is Princeton WhistlePigs. What’s a…
The Czech Extra League, the highest level of baseball in the Czech Republic will start a week later than planned due to COVID-19 according to milujeme-baseball.cz. The original starting date, April 2nd, will not be met. But the dark scenarios of starting at the end of April or the beginning of May, are also scratched….
Recently, you could read about Silicon Storks having started a crowdfunding to support the club during these harsh times. It appeared that at least one other Dutch hoofdklasse club has started a crowdfunding before Storks started one. Now another club has followed in its footsteps. The other club that started a crowdfunding before Silicon Storks…
The newest team in professional baseball and one of the newest in the Atlantic League, the Gastonia Honey Hunters have unveiled their new uniforms yesterday. Nice looking uniforms with some even nicer twists. The Gaston Gazette was one of the first to show the new uniforms. The team comes up with three uniforms: An all…
The European Baseball Confederation (CEB) and the French Baseball and Softball Federation announce the postponement of the European Women’s Baseball Championships scheduled for this summer to 2022. According to the CEB, it is very hard to to make any final decisions regarding the tournaments at this moment. As a result, the Executive Committee of the CEB is…
Yes! It is that time of the week again. Time to celebrate the upcoming weekend with another episode of “Peanuts Baseball Comic On Friday” with Charlie Brown and his baseball gang. Enjoy.
Many sporting clubs are going through a rough time. With no options to play or only being allowed to play without fans in the stands, not much money, if any, is coming in. Dutch hoofdklasse club Silicon Storks decided to do something about it. Through its Instagram account, the club sent an ad into the…
The bullying continues. If cutting 40 teams and abolishing the old league names wasn’t bad enough, MLB continues to leave its negative mark on MiLB. Now the moloch is cutting down the number of specialty caps and jerseys in Minor League Baseball. According to Baseball America, MLB sent a memo to minor league teams telling…
