Welcome to 2019, arguably the biggest year in the history of British baseball since the national team’s 1938 triumph in the sport’s inaugural World Cup. The year Major League Baseball brings its two biggest franchises – the New York Yankees
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Welcome to BF&N, our very own West Ham season ticket holder, Jonny Gaffney… Given I’ve spent the last 2 years falling in love with a sport I previously knew very little about, when the London Series was announced, I was
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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
Read moreThe day is finally here – details of when the tickets for next June’s games in London have finally been announced by the official MLB London Series account, and we might have a clearer indication of first pitch times as
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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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The London Series announcement answered some questions, but not all. We have decided to try and pick some of the major questions and see if we can answer them. Timings As much as this may disappoint some people, I feel
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On a scorching Tuesday afternoon in London, we at Bat Flips and Nerds were asked to join MLB UK at the Regent Street Cinema for a rather important announcement. Sadiq Khan was joined by the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
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Back in 2016, we asked questions of what, when and how Major League Baseball could work in the United Kingdom. In January 2017, John wrote how he doesn’t think the Red Sox and Yankees should be the first two in
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Update: 10am, GMT – now includes quotes from Red Sox, Joel Sherman, YES Network video. 4pm, GMT – AP quotes from Aaron Boone, Greg Bird. Late last night the business website Bloomberg broke the latest in a series of mini-scoops
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