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Technical Glitch Repaired; Changes Looming
Oops … mister-baseball.com was knocked offline last week due to a technical glitch. We apologize for any confusion the outage might have caused! The site will continue to be plagued in the…
Happy New Year!
Dear Readers, Wherever you might be found, I wish you all the best as 2023 gets underway, with good health and good weather atop the list of blessings I hope the new…
Happy Holidays!
Dear Readers, The site’s first year under new leadership is winding down, and what a year it has been. Managing Editor Gabriel Fidler and I managed to publish 227 articles on the…
A New Era for Mister Baseball: Sunburns, Harry Caray, and Bavarian Hardball
Francisco Barreto celebrates with the Passau Beavers on the way to the dugout. Francisco Barreto may have been a welcome—but surprise—addition to Mister Baseball at the end of 2020 (as detailed in…
A New Era for Mister Baseball: Wuerfel Hangs up Spikes
Philipp Wuerfel (right), with the Hungarian Baseball Freaks at the 2012 World Baseball Classic Qualifier in Regensburg. Not long after the calendar turned to 2021, a new chapter in the story of…
Farewell from Mister-Baseball.com
Dear Friends of Mister-Baseball.com, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope you’re enjoying the last days of 2020, a very strange year for all of us. I would like to…
No Mister-Baseball Top 50 European Club Ranking in 2020
by Josh Chetwynd Without a doubt, 2020 has been a difficult year. For European baseball, there were some bright spots with a number of countries being able to complete full seasons. Unfortunately,…
2019 Final Standings Mister-Baseball European Top 50
by Josh Chetwynd For the first time since 2012, a team that plays in Italy came out on top in the Mister-Baseball Top 50. By virtue of its national championship and pan-continental…
New Edition of “Baseball in Europe” Book available
Josh Chetwynd has updated his book “Baseball in Europe” and released the new edition recently. With the success of The Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, baseball in Europe has begun to…
2018 Final Standings Mister-Baseball European Top 50
by Josh Chetwynd For a second straight year, Curaçao Neptunus took the title as the number one team in the Mister-Baseball Top 50. Earning the 2018 honor shouldn’t be a huge surprise…
2017 Final Standings Mister-Baseball European Top 50
by Josh Chetwynd Curacao Neptunus earned top honors in the 2017 Mister-Baseball Top 50 thanks to a combination of capturing the Netherlands’ national title and winning Europe’s top club event, the Champions…
Q&A with CEB President Candidates Petr Ditrich, Jan Esselman, Didier Seminet
At the combined ESF/CEB Congress on February 4 in Belgrade, Serbia elections for the executive board of the European Softball Federation (ESF) and the Confederation of European Baseball (CEB) are on the…
2016 Final Standings Mister-Baseball European Top 50
by Josh Chetwynd No doubt, 2016 was a tumultuous year. So, perhaps it makes sense that the competition for the number one spot in Mister-Baseball Top 50 would be such a battle….
Mid-season changes for European Baseball Magazine
European Baseball Magazine, Europe’s first app-based baseball magazine, is making major changes both in format and staff. Since Tuesday, June 28, 2016, EBM+, formerly a subscription-based monthly publication with interactive content, will…
New Book from Josh Chetwynd: Field Guide to Sports Metaphors
Our own Josh Chetwynd (“Baseball in Europe“; Mister-Baseball’s European Top 50) has written a new book: “Field Guide to Sports Metaphors”. A gift-worthy playbook of common and unexpected words and idioms rooted…
2015 Final Standings Mister-Baseball European Top 50
by Josh Chetwynd Curacao Neptunus entered the 2015 season with a new sponsor and finished it with a dominant results, earning its third consecutive title as the number-one ranked team in the…
European Baseball Magazine, EBM+, is the first mobile baseball magazine in Europe
Press Release European Baseball Magazine, EBM+ European Baseball has now the brand new digital magazine. It offers the hottest European baseball topics for fans, players, people who are actively involved in baseball…
Mister-Baseball’s European Top 15 Minor Leaguers
For the first time ever there will be a ranking of the best European Minor Leaguers. After polling selected scouts and coaches in European Baseball we introduce Mister-Baseball’s European Top 15 Minor…