This post has now also been published at Banished to the Pen, the site set up by listeners of the Effectively Wild podcast. For more from BttP, follow @BanishedtoPen. It’s the question we’ve all been asking: in a home run
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Blake’s Free Agent Finds – 5-11 July
So it’s the final week before the All-Star break, where I’m back with my usual Free Agent finds for the week. I’m hoping to get out a couple fantasy All-Star teams for you, but all will be revealed in due
Read moreThe Game Planner, July 3rd-July 9th
While some readers will get to watch actual baseballs being crushed in person tomorrow, many still need to rely on the TV options. It’s actually a bumper week, with at least one watchable game every day, so if you’re disappointed
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Battlegrounds Profile: Shawn Green
MLB UK’s Battlegrounds event takes place in Hyde Park tomorrow, and what better way to get ready for the event than reading about the third and final of the former MLB stars set to participate in the home run derby,
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Minoring in British – Serena Promoted, Conlon An All Star
Not a full round-up of Brits in the minors, merely a quick note to report some great news for a couple of our prospects. Angels outfielder/infielder Jordan Serena‘s rise through the LA club’s system this year has been meteoric. He
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Learning to Baseball – Really Learning to Baseball
You don’t really need to understand baseball to watch great baseball movies because at their core they are metaphors for life rather than sporting action. If you are going to support a team though and watch some games it all
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MLB Battlegrounds 4th July Fan Meetup Details
In case you’ve been hiding under a stone, there’s a pretty big deal going down this Tuesday 4th July in London’s Hyde Park as MLB takes over the British Summer Time Festival to showcase our beloved sport to the capital’s
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Bird in the Bronx
Kurt Wilks (@KurtWilks) has recently returned from the Bronx, where he (A Cardinals fan) watched the New York Yankees tackle Yu Darvish and the Texas Rangers. Read all about him breaking his baseball virginity. As a St Louis Cardinals fan
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A Brief History Of Mound Charges – Part 2
Picking up where we left off in part one, here are three more mound charging episodes that we all secretly enjoyed whilst pretending outwardly that it has no place in the game. This time we have two Venturas for
Read moreEpisode 37 (ish) – Mike Scioscia is…
Award winning journalist Darius Austin and “Peter and the Wolf” lead Tom Pringle join together on a miserable Thursday evening to talk baseball. MLB UK have announced the lineup and itinerary for MLB Battlegrounds! Tom reads the list out (Jeff Stelling
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