Some of you might remember from my first article here on Bat flips and Nerds that I wrote that baseball is our national sport here in Finland. It’s just a bit different from the one we all know. I also
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Category: Your New Favourite League
College Baseball 2021 – a UK perspective
Like all of you reading this, I am ecstatic to see Major League Baseball return in a much more recognisable form than the version we saw in 2020. That being said, there has also been some top quality baseball going
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Interview with Lin An-Ko, CPBL’s Argentinian-Taiwanese Phenom
The original of this piece appeared at Baseball Argentina. We can’t thank their team enough for asking us to host it here too. Here’s a link to the original, in Spanish. In these pandemic times we are living through, with
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #4 Savannah Bananas
If you have not read my previous posts, I will give you a little background to my love of MiLB. I was diagnosed with terminal cancer back in September 2017, so decided
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #3 Charleston Riverdogs
If you have not read my previous articles about MiLB on the Batflips and Nerds’ website, I’ll give you a bit of background as to how my trip came about: I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017 and so
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‘Expand your baseball knowledge beyond MLB’ feature – Episode #1 Macon Bacon
In September 2017, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer and made a bucket list. At the very top of the list was a trip to see a minor-league baseball game. A road trip was also on there, so in 2018,
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Chinatrust Brothers Ace Mitch Lively Talks to Bat Flips & Nerds
In a recent interview with Mitch Lively, starting pitcher for the Chinatrust Brothers, Mark Buckton got a few insights into his life in Taiwan’s CPBL. ML: Mitch Lively MB: Mark Buckton MB: Talking to Sam Williams, sports editor of Lassen
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Painting Passion – The CPBL
Making a welcome return to BFN, British ‘baseball artist’, Andy Brown… It was a month ago that I came for my first visit to Taiwan to paint the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Having witnessed the Chinese Taipei national team
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The Power, the Beer and the Glory – Baseball in Mexico City
Welcome back the brilliant gonzo talents of Geoff Enderby… Sunshine by Danny Boyle is probably his most forgotten work, but not by me, and certainly not today. This is because after almost twelve years of life in the sun-drenched Mexican
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Your New Favourite League – Chinese Professional Baseball League
Taiwanese baseball is going to be the only gig in town for much of this summer so it’s time to get across it, so John’s back with an update to his guide from 2018 You What? Yes, you heard right,
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