Learning to Baseball – Bat Flips and Nerds

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

A Brit Learning Baseball Through Books: Why Baseball Matters

June 5, 2018 Paddy Johnston Baseball, Baseball Book, Baseball Books, Learning to Baseball, Opinion, Reviews

“The game stands up and out in the lowest-common-denominator American culture of distraction, disruption, and interruption. For me, this distinction makes baseball the most intellectually stimulating, emotionally satisfying, and downright glorious pastime ever devised.” – Susan Jacoby It’s not likely

Official UK Indy Ball Affiliate – Introducing the Teams

April 16, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Baseball Brit, Indy Ball, Learning to Baseball, Official UK Indy Ball Affiliate

The following article aims to inform and help you decide which independent team to vote for during the next two weeks of battle. One of the most desired outcomes from this competition is to increase interest in independent baseball and

Is 2018 Looking Blue for the Jays?

December 1, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Learning to Baseball, Previews

A warm welcome for a guest blog to the proprietor of East Atlantic Outlook, James Dawne… After back-to-back ALDS appearances, 2017 saw the Blue Jays drop under .500 for the first time since 2013 (4th in AL East; .469, 76-86).

Getting to Know You – Yaya Baseball

November 30, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Learning to Baseball

In case you’ve missed it, we’ve teamed up with awesome Slovakian bat manufacturers Yaya Baseball to offer one lucky Bat Flips & Nerds reader or follower the chance to win one of their incredible custom made bats worth €119. At

California Dreaming – Part One

August 23, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Learning to Baseball

Here to recap a Los Angeles baseball experience, it’s Paul Mitchell… Traffic in Los Angeles isn’t as bad as you may have heard – it’s worse. A family holiday to California in July brought the opportunity to see some West

Learning to Baseball – Really Learning to Baseball

July 3, 2017 Steve Wright Baseball, Learning to Baseball

You don’t really need to understand baseball to watch great baseball movies because at their core they are metaphors for life rather than sporting action. If you are going to support a team though and watch some games it all

Learning to Baseball – Thirty Years Later, I Went To A Game

June 17, 2017 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Learning to Baseball

So, I had fallen for the Mets and I had fallen for baseball but what I really wanted was to sit in the stands to watch a game and roughly thirty years later here I was. Well you get side-tracked