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As well as here at BaseballGB, you can now get a British perspective on baseball via Twitter.  Both Joe and I have created accounts.  If you are already on the Twitter network, please feel free to ‘follow’ us.  If you’ve not joined up yet, why not take the plunge? Joe’s page is: http://twitter.com/gbbsa My page is: http://twitter.com/mattbaseballgb [...]

Biographies for Great Britain Seniors players, past and present, can now be found here. The large majority of the research was carried out by Josh Chetwynd, and I am very grateful to him for supplying me with the information so that I could work it into the website.

Scenario: The first two batters of an inning strike out. The third hits a home run. The fourth draws a walk. The fifth hits a pop-up to the first baseman for an easy catch in foul territory but the ball is dropped, causing the first baseman to be charged with an error. The next pitch is drilled over [...]

The IBAF have announced “impressive” early ticket sales for the Baseball World Cup, to be staged across Europe this September.   Over 8,000 tickets have been sold in forty-eight hours for the Pool E games based in Regensburg, Germany. The news is a welcome source of optimism for the year ahead; however Regensburg is the only [...]

It seems as though the standoff between Manny Ramirez and Scott Boras and the Dodgers is showing no sign of ending any time soon.   Months after the Dodgers made a contract offer – $45m for two years seems to be the most widely reported figures – Manny is still without a team.   Even [...]

(Ballantine Books, 1991), 470 pages. The Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869 have an important place in the history of baseball.  As the first all-professional team, they can be said to be the pioneers that paved the way for the multi-billion dollar industry that exists today.  The team and the early days of pro baseball are [...]

Alex Malihoudis has been a GB Senior for the past 14 years and has also enjoyed domestic success, most recently as a London Met in their championship-winning seasons of 2007 and 2008. In 2008, he won the best shortstop award and led the league in hits and in runs scored. Through a combination of natural [...]

Life’s Grandeur by Stephen Jay Gould, (Vintage, 2002) 272 pages. (The book Life’s Grandeur does contain some baseball; however, it is included here not to recommend it as a “baseball book” but rather to set up a discussion of Gould’s only book that featured baseball and nothing else – Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville – and [...]

Scenario: While facing the first batter of game, the home team’s starting pitcher suffers a knee injury and has to be replaced. The batter has a full count when the new pitcher enters the game. As the official scorer, you must choose whether the original pitcher’s statistics or the new pitcher’s statistics will be affected, based on what the outcome is of the plate appearance. Which of [...]

If you haven’t seen it yet, I would highly recommend watching a recent video published on MLB.com about ‘combination signs’.  These signs are used by a catcher to relay the selection of pitches to the pitcher in a coded way, making it harder for the runner on second base to work out what is coming the batter’s way.  [...]