It’s summer 1978 in monochrome, impoverished North East England; a time of power cuts, incessant industrial action and an England football team that had failed to make the World Cup in Argentina. Fast-forward a couple of months, and I’m living
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Nobody wants to see me recreate the famous Spider Jerusalem column. Still, as I see it, Mookie Betts and David Price have escaped, fled to Los Angeles in a trade that doesn’t seem any more likely to yield a quality
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It’s tough to know exactly what the Boston Red Sox are playing at, and what sort of discipline this team will face for the signal-stealing that led them to part ways with Alex Cora. We do see a lot of
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News will break shortly that the largest ever MLB free agent contract has been agreed. Will Bryce Harper sign it with one of the frontrunners or is there a mystery team? The favourites to land the superstar are the “spending
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MLB Legend and Former Yankee Alex ‘BaeRod’ Rodriguez was in London today for the news we’ve all been waiting for – an announcement of the opening of ticket sales for next year’s MLB London Series, heretofore and forever known as
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Since Sunday gone, a great number of words have been spared for Nathan Eovaldi and his Herculean feats in the 2018 World Series. He was, it’s been said, the inspiration for his Boston Red Sox team’s come from behind Game
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It looks like we may have a start time for the MLB London Series 2019. Eagle eyed twitter follower Andy Hart sent us this tweet. @batflips_nerds look like they will be afternoon games. pic.twitter.com/qcOd4x6gxh — Andy Hart (@AJHart__) September 20,
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Since the news that MLB was scheduling a marquee series between the Yankees and Red Sox at the London Stadium on 29-30 June 2019 a couple of key questions have circled. How will the league compensate teams for the travel
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Regular readers of this site over the last couple of years will have seen plenty of coverage of the MLB’s attempts to carve a small foothold in the consciousness of the British public. From initial fan engagement events, through to
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With his final dispatch from his Stateside trip, John’s back… The line in the box score doesn’t do justice to Jalen Beeks‘ Red Sox debut. The zeroes and ones show he lasted four innings and gave up six earned runs
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