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From The Press Box – April

April 19, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

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

Baseball’s unwritten rules, when tradition overstays its welcome.

April 18, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion, Pinch Hitting

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

Swept Away in Japan

March 27, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Hannah is one of the Baseball By Committee clan, who also contributes to the UK Oakland Athletics twitter account. According to her Twitter account she may enjoy some form of fermented beverage. As the dust settles and the jet lag

Best of British – Europe: Baseball Played Here

March 27, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, London Series, MLB UK

Matt Smith is the chair of the British Baseball Hall Of Fame, Oakland A’s fan and founder of the excellent BaseballGB – the original British Baseball (And world baseball) website. For all the excitement at the thought of the upcoming

Best Of British – Spring has sprung!

March 26, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Steve Klein set up a blog called Bush League Ramble a couple of years ago and has been writing sporadically about baseball on there (and for a few other sites) ever since. His latest undertaking is Reading The Game, a

Best Of British – Baseball: Shelf Awareness & The National Pastime

March 25, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, London Series, MLB UK, Pinch Hitting

Ash Day writes about the Cleveland Indians at England Tribe and you can find him at @AshDay29 To fall in love with the great game of baseball, your average British fan must overcome numerous barriers when they first encounter the

FIGHT! 2018

March 21, 2019 Rob Noverraz Baseball

As we ramp up to the beginning of the 2019 season, one thing Baseball players have demonstrated over and over is that they’re good at keeping grudges (Lest we forget that in 2017 Hunter Strickland plunked Bryce Harper in retaliation

Stud Flop Bingo

March 9, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Fantasy Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Ryan Owen is the founder of RotoTrix – A UK based fantasy baseball rankings, advice and musing website. He is also unfortunate enough to be in the same TGFBI league as our own Tom Pringle. One of the things that

Episode 107 – Emily Waldon

February 24, 2019 Bat Flips Admin Podcast

Emily Waldon of The Athletic Detroit and The Athletic MLB joins Tom to talk about her start in Baseball writing and Minor League Players rights. They talk about Ken Rosenthal and his Slack messages, juggling two jobs of Baseball writing

Welcome to hell – Tuckin’ Hell.

February 19, 2019 Thomas Pringle Announcement

People who know me, know I don’t like to stand still. Not only physically, but metaphorically. I am always looking for the next venture, the next idea, the next plan. Not in a crazy entrepreneur way, but in a “I