There are nine early games scheduled for the working week, all taking place on either Wednesday or Thursday. All times are listed in BST. Monday 2nd – No early games.…
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Tempers have been flaring in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. Mister-Baseball reports that the Corendon Kinheim and the Konica Minolta Pioniers had a bit of a brawl a couple of weeks ago…
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A Brucie Bonus The Jay Bruce fairytale shows no signs of letting up just yet. After impressing everyone during his first four games in the Majors, he surpassed himself last…
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Book Reviews
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom M Tango, Mitchel G Lichtman, and Andrew E Dolphin
by Joe Grayby Joe Gray(Potomac Books, 2007) 384 pages. Up until this publication, any mention of “the book” in a conversation about baseball was a reference not to a written piece of work, but rather to a body of…
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Written by Steve Bartley Before he was sent down the headline that made me reach for my foam baseball bat the quickest was that the gaunt and wobbly looking Pete…
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Matt’s latest book review got me thinking about hitting streaks, and -Â being a fan of the sport in Britain – my thoughts naturally turned to the subject of our domestic…
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(Touchstone, 2001), 546 pages. Heralded for many years as ‘baseball’s greatest living player’, Joe DiMaggio was, and due to his enduring legend still is, one of the true giants of…
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The A’s fansite, Athletics Nation, is in the enviable position of having a good relationship with GM Billy Beane. Every now and then, Beane gives up a bit of his…
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BST Game Guides
Avoiding England friendlies – Live early games this week
by Matt Smithby Matt SmithThere are eleven early games this week, with British fans only drawing a blank on Tuesday. All times are listed in BST. Monday 26 – It’s Memorial Day in the…
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Tick, Tock. Tick, Tock … Like the White Rabbit in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig is frantically rushing around, looking at his watch and muttering “Oh dear!…