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Old Dogs and New Tricks: My Belated Attempt to Learn to Play Baseball with the London Mets

June 21, 2022 Joshua Edwards Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Team Contributors

Here I am. The top deck (ahem, upper tier) at the London Stadium, watching the inaugural International Series game between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Me: ‘They make it look so easy.’ Friend: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ Me:

5 things you can do to catch up on the 2022 season

March 31, 2022 Thomas Pringle Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Learning to Baseball, Opinion

Each year I begin the season staring at Fangraphs (other baseball reference sites are available), wondering where all my favourite baseballists have moved to. I wonder which team will be winning 100-games and which team will be floundering at the

Stadium Review – Colorado Rockies – Coors Field, Denver

May 4, 2020 Sarah Briggs Baseball, Beginner's Guide, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting, Reviews, Team Contributors

I am on a quest to visit all 30 Major League ballparks – so far, I’ve done 13 in eight years, which is not bad going. The visits to Coors Field were part of a road trip around Colorado and

A history of fugitive hamsters (or, getting through the indefinite off-season)

March 31, 2020 Rachel Steinberg Baseball, Learning to Baseball

Here at Bat Flips and Nerds we sometimes get people who want to contribute but don’t know what to write. We often say to them, “Why not write about what got you into baseball?” I have never written one of

baseball – worth losing sleep over

February 6, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Learning to Baseball, MLB UK, Opinion

A warm welcome to BFN, Rupert Lewis… Sleep is vital. According to the NHS it is “essential for a long and healthy life” and a consistent lack of sleep “puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, (and) heart disease”.

Never too old for baseball

February 3, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Opinion

Can a complete novice turn up and participate in your training session on Sunday? Even if they’re in their 50s? Asking for a “friend”. Send. An immediate reply came back from Cambridge Baseball Club that of course, my “friend” would

Your New Favourite Aspect of the Offseason

November 11, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, He is Joy, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

Welcome back to BF&N Ash Day… The MLB offseason is pure torture. Fans long for the return of baseball and the warmer weather that accompanies it. The winter crawls by as we eagerly count down the days until pitchers and

Fireball – Following Baseball from the UK and beyond Since 1986

December 11, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

A welcome return for our Mexican correspondent, Geoff Enderby… “I didn’t know I was creating memories I just thought I was having fun” – Lemmy As a child in the latter part of the 1970s and during the early 1980s we would

A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: The Summer Game and Living Forever

September 6, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Baseball Book, Baseball Books, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Reviews

“Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain forever young. Sitting in the stands, we sense this, if only

A Brit learning Baseball through Books: A Drive into the Gap and the selflessness of Roberto Clemente

June 16, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Baseball Book, Baseball Books, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Reviews

“The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.” – Kevin Guilfoile A Drive into the Gap was one of the first books about baseball that I ever read. My