“Can we play you, can we play you, can we play you every week. Can we play you every week.” Those of you more familiar with British football will recognise this chant. It is one that the fans will sing
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Tag: Baseball
How I got into baseball – Mark Buckton
My first baseball experience came in August 1994, almost… Working for a few weeks on Nellis Air Force Base just outside Las Vegas, Nevada as part of an RAF Harrier squadron, we had been told an MLB team would be
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From The Press Box – April
Rachel Steinberg returns to begin a regular column. You can find her BFN debut here. Welcome to From the Press Box, a weekly attempt to round up the best of the UK media’s reporting on our favourite sport. I’m not
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Here’s A Popular Post from Bat Flips and Nerds Dot Com…
Being a fan of MLB isn’t the easiest when you are based in the UK. With only a few games being played at times where you might expect a finish at a reasonable hour. Fans have to regularly determine if
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The Boys of Spring – Part 2
The story so far – During a trip to watch Spring Training in Florida, I watched a Yankees/Phillies minor league game. I noted the names of six of the Phillies players, and resolved to follow them through the season to
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Pitch Movement – There’s something in the air
If you have been watching baseball for some time you will know the game is slightly different at Coors Field. At 5,200 feet (1,580 m) above sea level, Coors Field is by far the highest park in the majors. The
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Chris Davis gets a hit – And the best moment of the season so far
Put it in the books. In the top of the 1st inning of today’s ongoing game with the Boston Red Sox – approximately 6.23pm here in the UK – Chris Davis broke his historic skid of 54 at bats without
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The Nationals are going to be just fine, even though some guy left this offseason
If you’re vaguely aware of baseball and somehow missed the fact that the Washington Nationals lost some guy whose name rhymes with Nice Sharper this offseason, that’s actually pretty impressive. But you-know-who, who spent seven great years in D.C., signed
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A four-man outfield: last positioning gambit or the new norm?
With the 2019 MLB season about to start, a whirlwind of uncertainty surrounds the game. Firstly, the second year of cold ‘hot stove season’ with limited free agency signings happening has lead to open discussion of action by the players’
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Gambling’s influence on Major League Baseball’s approach to minor league pay.
There have been multiple reports that Major League Baseball may be changing it’s approach to the pay of minor league players. The latest statement below seems to be a change from their historic stance of doing everything they legally can
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