Aaron Murray joins us for the first time to write about the joy of a rebuild. He submitted this post via the “Contribute Here” page above. Want to write for us? Do the same as Aaron! We’re hours away from
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Head of MLB UK — Charlie Hill — talks to Bat Flips and Nerds
This past week, John McGee sat down to talk with the head of MLB UK, Charlie Hill, to answer some burning questions about the future of Major League Baseball in the UK. Below are some of the key points from
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T20 Baseball: Solving Baseball’s Greatest Problem – Less Time, More Action
Chris Brown thinks MLB should take a leaf out of T20 cricket’s book… Right, Rob Manfred are you listening? Pace of play is the number 1 issue that us Brits have with the game apparently, so in advance of the
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Starting with the Samurai: Australia v Japan
Returning to BF&N with the first dispatch of his globetrotting year, it’s BaseballBrit… On March 3rd, in front of a boisterous crowd of 33,748 at the Nagoma Dome, the second best baseball team in the world, Samurai Japan, beat the
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Player Profiles – The Kid
This post by podcast guest Mark Blakemore, originally featured on Bases Loaded in 2014. Check out his other player profile The Big Unit It takes a talented individual to not only make it as a major league baseball player but
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The Great British and Irish Baseball Fan Survey Results – Part 3
Part 1 and Part 2 of the survey can be found here. It’s time for part 3 of 4 (I’ve finally decided how many parts it will be), this time we will learn about participation levels for the game and
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The Great British and Irish Baseball Fan Survey Results – Part 2
Part 1 of the survey can be found here We’re back, this time to learn about why and how we consume our baseball, if we have ever watched a game in person and lastly who our favourite and least favourite
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The Great British and Irish Baseball Fan Survey Results – Part 1
During the month of July — in the super secret Bat Flips and Nerds Slack chat — I mooted the idea of running a fan survey for our followers. The idea was to find out who folk support, who they
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Baseball Book Draft – Podcast Reading List
This reading list accompanies our baseball book podcast with Baseball by the Book‘s Justin McGuire. Here’s the link to the podcast. All title links track through to Amazon (where available in the UK), where you can add them to your
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The Tale Of A Third Baseman Called Traffic Cone
In 2015 the Boston Red Sox signed Pablo Sandoval to a five-year, $95m deal. If you missed out on what happened, well he was terrible. In his first season, he batted .245/.292/.366 with 10 HR (wRC+ 76). Not only was
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