It is time for another anti-MLB rant. Why? Because the vile organization has made clear that Atlantic League players may be banned from all of affiliated and partner league baseball in the US and Canada, if they opt out of their contract now the mound in the Atlantic League has been pushed back to 62…
Just like the Canadian teams in the Frontier League, the Winnipeg Goldeyes are the next Canadian team to face a problem due to the corona crisis. As the US/Canadian border is still closed from the Canadian side, it will be hard for the Goldeyes to play in the American Association this year. So, in order…
The Cleburne RailRoaders, the team from Texas that debuted in the American Association in 2017, has rebranded a while ago. Next to the new logo and jerseys the club presented a few weeks ago, the club came up with their new caps today. With their new look, the club is emphasizing its Texan heritage. The…
Most of the time, this item is about things that happened in a far past. Not this time. Today’s subject happened in a very recent past: A player to be named later trade. In independent baseball, silly things happen sometimes. Decades ago, a player was traded for a bag of baseballs and a couple of…
The other day, the Australian Baseball League announced a cooperation with the independent American Association. Also some postponements of games were announced as corona rules got more strict. Three games between the Canberra Cavalry and the Sydney BlueSox at Sydney’s Blacktown International Sportspark, scheduled for January 1-3, have been postponed due to ongoing restrictions on…
In today’s episode of Today in baseball, we pay attention to the very first trade in baseball. Today 133 years ago the Cincinnati Reds and the Saint Louis Browns were the first teams to do so. We write 1886, a time in which players were bought from other teams on a regular basis. But today,…
Today 106 years ago, an American Association game between the Minneapolis Millers and the Indianapolis Indians finally finish after four attempts as the Millers beat the Indians 11-2. The Indianapolis Indians weren’t quite successful in that 1913 season. At the end, the team finished dead last with a 68-99 record, thirty-two games out of first…
It has been a while when you could read the news of Dashenko Ricardo’s contract being picked up by the Tampa Bay Rays. But finally, the Curaçaoan backstop made a comeback in organized baseball. In the first game of a doubleheader, Ricardo was positioned behind home plate. On his own, Ricardo was responsible for a…
The Lincoln Saltdogs of the independent American Association has placed their catcher Dashenko Ricard on the disabled list, retroactive to August 13. The Curaçao native and player of team Kingdom of the Netherlands injured his foot last Sunday as he fouled off a pitch in the first at-bat of the third inning. After being examined by…
After an absence of more than a year, Juan Carlos Sulbaran has made a return to professional baseball. The last game as a pro was at AA level with the Springfield Cardinals RedBirds. Yesterday he returned to pro ball with the independent Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association. Last Thursday in the hoofdklasse report…
