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,…
January 2009
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It seems as though the standoff between Manny Ramirez and Scott Boras and the Dodgers is showing no sign of ending any time soon. Â Months after the Dodgers made…
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(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…
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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…
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Book Reviews
Stephen Jay Gould: a “learned Harvard professor and baseball-loving everyman”
by Joe Grayby Joe GrayLife’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”…
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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.…
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BST Game Guides
Combination Signs courtesy of the MLB Network (and another reason to save ‘MLB on Five’)
by Matt Smithby Matt SmithIf 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…