Welcome to BFN Tim Vergoossen… The new baseball season is approaching the end of its first full month. With that, the first matchup between two American baseball franchises on European soil – for so long a dream we never thought
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Jake Arrieta’s Looking ‘Ace’ Again
Welcome to BFN, Sean Guest… It’s easy to forget just how good Jake Arrieta was in 2015. In 33 starts, he won a career-best 22 games, with an ERA of 1.77 en route to the National League Cy Young. He
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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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Baseball’s unwritten rules, when tradition overstays its welcome.
Cultural Relativism is the theory that beliefs, customs, and morality exist in relation to the culture from which they originate and are not absolute – in other words, what is moral in one society or culture, may not be moral
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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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The Trump administration just cancelled an historic baseball deal. Here’s what you need to know.
With incisive analysis on an important issue, please welcome Rachel Steinberg for her BFN debut… What was cancelled? A deal between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Cuban Baseball Federation (CBF) that would have allowed Cuban baseball players to sign
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The Palace of Don Alfredo – A British Take on Mexico’s Newest Baseball Stadium
Welcome back, Geoff Enderby… Mexico City in March is a beautiful place, an enormous valley filled prominently with the blooming violet of the Jacaranda trees, brought to Mexico by Tatsugoro Matsumoto back in the years prior to the formation of
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The Boys of Spring
A warm welcome to BFN for a stalwart of the UK fan community, Mark Smith… Saturday March 23rd – sunshine, clear blue sky, temperature touching 70 degrees at 10am. You’re right – I wasn’t at home in London. I was
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Best Of British – AJ Pollock: 2019’s Best Free Agent Signing
Joel is one half of Four Bases, a British Baseball website that has recently produced a fantastic (and FREE) guide for the 2019 MLB season. The Landscape With the benefit of a couple of years of hindsight, the winter of
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