MLB Scoop recently conducted an interview with Mike Kindle, president of Baseball Ireland. Kindle raises the issues of lack of funding and competition from other sports as key obstacles to…
Matt Smith
Matt Smith
Matt Smith is the editor and lead writer at BaseballGB. An Oakland A's fan, Matt has been following baseball since 1998 and started writing about the sport in 2006. He is the current Chair of the British Baseball Hall of Fame.
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There are nine games to choose from on MLB.tv over the first two evenings of the week. Monday The Braves-Cardinals clash and the game between the Red Sox and the…
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Most people watch Spring Training games more out of curiosity rather than expecting a great contest and that’s often the best way to approach them. The intense competition is obviously…
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Injuries are already starting to bite in Spring Training. While you would prefer to suffer injuries now rather than in September, it’s still a disruption that teams and players could…
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I just happened to come across an article published yesterday on the BBC website about Great Britain’s withdrawal from the Olympic qualifier in Taiwan. The tournament starts tomorrow and it’s…
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Listening to the A’s game against the Padres last night reminded me what I love about Spring Training. The game itself (which Oakland won 15-4) was fairly incidental to the…
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The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence S. Ritter, (Perennial, 2002), 360 pages. The Glory of Their Times is the quintessential introduction to the “early days of baseballâ€. The death…
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Tune in to hopefully watch Chelsea lose or catch some Spring Training baseball? It’s a tough choice, but baseball wins again. There are four games on MLB.tv this evening: 18.05 (GMT)…
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Cricket and baseball. Alike in some ways, completely different in others. The similarities make them both antagonistic towards each other (specifically cricket fans denouncing baseball as a way to imply…
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Those of you who are not particularly interested in Champions League football can choose from three MLB.tv games this evening instead. Two have just begun. The Tigers are facing Roy Oswalt and the Astros, while…