When the European Association of Professional Baseball (EAPB) announced the newly erected Euro League Baseball, the CEB announced that it would not recognize the new competiton. In the slipstream of the CEB, the Dutch Federation, the KNBSB, also announced that it would not allow Dutch clubs, playing in the Hoofdklasse, to participate in the ELB…
Today, the Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation (KNBSB) held a press conference in the clubhouse of new hoofdklasse club Oosterhout Twins (pronounce Oaster hout) about the upcoming season in the baseball hoofdklasse, Golden League softball, the upcoming European (nations) Cup in Hoofddorp, the upcoming ladies World Cup softball and the cooperation within the Dutch…
I hear you say: “Who?” Timothy Broas, the former US Ambassador to the Netherlands has accepted a role as ambassador of the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) and of the Curacao Baseball Development Foundation. Both institutions can benefit from his enormous resource of international contacts. You may think: “How?” Well, as an ambassador…
The other day I read a short note at the Twitter account of EBM+, the European Baseball Magazine. Good job. @EuroLeagueBaseb will play season 2016: @PiratesHonkbal @disciples_haar Draci Brno @legionaere #baseball pic.twitter.com/cJaXaHfV6O — EU Baseball Magazine (@BaseballEBM) December 19, 2015 This made me curious about the reason why. The general manager of the Bonn Capitals…
In the Netherlands there is a lot of complaining about the level of the baseball umpires. But what do they do to get better? How much time do they spend to keep their knowledge of the rules at the required level? These and other questions were answered by three Hoofdklasse umpires. People say that umpires…
Today UVV from Utrecht and the KNBSB (Royal Dutch Baseball and Softball Federation) organized the All Star Game for the best baseball players and softball players. With the Softball ASG, team red beat team blue 5-2. The KNBSB put together the teams in a different way. In the previous editions, there was a North team…
Last week I wrote about the special member’s meeting of baseball club ADOLakers. Even though the required 3/4 of the members did not show up in the clubhouse, the available memvers voted to dismantle the club. This means that the club will be withdrawn from the Dutch Hoofdklasse.ADOLakers is the fifth club since 1988 that…
In the previous edition of Baseball in the Netherlands: Not always a story about heroics, I wrote about the upcoming special meeting of AdoLakers from the Hague. The club got into financial trouble and the members had to vote about the future of the club. Well that special meeting was last night. The outcome? 2/3…
