At first glance, the opening week of my Fantasy Baseball UK challenge did not go well. The Week 8 competition was won by Kris Marriott’s KillaKlowns team, who picked up…
June 2008
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After the latest set of results, and nearly two-thirds of the regular season completed, the London Mets have a 5-game lead in the division over the Richmond Flames in the National…
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(Brassey’s Inc, 2002) 196 pages. If you had to pick one topic that British baseball fans might need some help with, in-game strategy would be near the top of the…
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There are nine early games this week, including two classic cross-town rivalries on Friday. All times are listed in BST. Monday 23rd – No early games today and just five…
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A change is as good as a win? It’s not been a good week to be a Major League manager. The Mets, Mariners and Blue Jays have all been wielding…
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Christopher Massey picked this up in his comment on the ‘Switch-hitting cricketers’ post and now MLB.com are running a story about it. The Yankees’ minor league pitcher Pat Venditte can hurl…
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The Rays have announced that they’ve come to terms with number one draft pick Tim Beckham. The shortstop will receive a signing bonus worth $6.15m . Not many 18 year olds…
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I noted recently that there are a lot of books on my ‘must get around to buying a copy’ list. The trouble is, new titles keep coming out each month…
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I posted last week about the proposed MCC exhibition tracing the relationship between baseball and cricket. One of the ways cricket has borrowed from baseball over the years is in…
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It’s Interleague play week in MLB, which doesn’t seem to have much bearing on the number of early games being played. We start the week off slowly today and tomorrow,…