Stephen Jones from No Cryin In Baseball makes his Bat Flips and Nerds debut, where he talks about his journey into baseball. It’s not the usual story when it comes to Yankees merch. I became interested in baseball around 2006
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Baseball in New York – The Casey Stengel Tour Part 1
There is an absence of any breeze and the sky is cloudless, through the trees steeples and towers can be seen from the nearby Cloisters and a brace of churches of unknown denomination. The tarmac is almost sticky as the
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Your New Favourite Aspect of the Offseason
Welcome back to BF&N Ash Day… The MLB offseason is pure torture. Fans long for the return of baseball and the warmer weather that accompanies it. The winter crawls by as we eagerly count down the days until pitchers and
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Episode 137 – Volvos Of Baseball
Tom returns! He’s joined by the ever present Darius Austin and the young spunk, Ben Carter. Tom immediately takes them off track by discussing a twitter storm from the past 24-hours, then the latest mobile games available for Android, before
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The Beautiful Cruelty Of Baseball
Ryan Ferguson makes his BFN debut to tell us all about why he loves baseball. You can find more of Ryan’s excellent work here. Twitter (@RyanFergusonHQ), Facebook (Ryan Ferguson HQ), Instagram (ryanfergusonnn) and LinkedIn (Ryan Ferguson). To the uninitiated, baseball
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Episode 125 – Ben Lindbergh – The MVP Machine
Darius and Tom are joined by Effectively Wild host, The Ringer writer and author of The Only Rule is it Has To Work and The MVP Machine, Ben Lindbergh. They cover the book in detail, including the controversial topic of
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2019 MLB Pythagorean Theorem – Predictions for the rest of the way
Martyn joins us to make his debut for Bat Flips and Nerds, you can read his fantasy baseball musing here, on Twitter. Bill James’ “Pythagorean theorem” is a key feature for baseball bettors, fans & fantasy baseball players. It basically
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Why I Love Baseball
Ryan Ferguson makes his BFN debut to tell us all about why he loves baseball. You can find more of Ryan’s excellent work here. Twitter (@RyanFergusonHQ), Facebook (Ryan Ferguson HQ), Instagram (ryanfergusonnn) and LinkedIn (Ryan Ferguson). “Baseball was, is, and
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Shrimp, Turtles and Baseball
Welcome to Bat Flips & Nerds, Rob Pritchard… It is three decades since Kevin Costner first introduced a British audience to the magic of Minor League Baseball, first as ‘Crash’ Davis in Bull Durham, then, a year later, as Ray
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Two Days in Wonderland – the Magic of the London Series
A warm welcome back to George Martin of UK Astros Fans… Looking back now, it was like a dream wasn’t it? The sun shining gloriously upon a combined weekend capacity of ~120,000 at the London Stadium as we saw a
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