Dutch MLB Bid still waiting for Green Light
Honkbalsite.com has published an article on Saturday, updating us on the Dutch bid to host Major League Baseball games in 2014. A delegation headed by Robert Eenhoorn had presented the plan to MLB in September. Now everybody is still in waiting mode. Field and facilities coordinator Murray Cook visited the site of the planned new ballpark between the cities of Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep earlier this month. The construction of the new baseball stadium as part of the large-scale project Park 21 is scheduled to start in the last quarter of 2012 with the completion one year later.
The submitted plan for MLB games has the year 2014 in sight, which would bring a three-game series between two, most likely east coast based, MLB teams to the Netherlands. The only news organizers so far have received is the fact that their bid is the only serious plan for Europe. A decision by MLB is expected for March, when the team owners will talk about international games in the coming five years. This spring the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will travel to Tokyo for a two-game Japan Opening Series (March 28&29, 2012).
