Category: Austria

Two of the three Austrian Baseball League clubs from Vienna started with sweeps into the new season. This weekend the undefeated METROSTARS and the SUPERFUND WANDERERS will square off at the Spenadlwiese…

SUPERFUND Wanderers Vienna – Dornbirn Indians 21-3, 13-3 The SUPERFUND WANDERERS opened the 2009 season in the Austrian Baseball League with a sweep. In game one against the INDIANS they scored a…

The two Austrian Baseball League clubs from Vienna celebrated a successful opening weekend. Both swept their doubleheaders on the road. Defending champion MOSQUITO ATHLETICS had to settle for a split against the…

2008 champion MOSQUITO ATHLETICS ATTNANG-PUCHHEIM starts the season on the road against the promoted club SCHWECHAT BLUE BATS. Besides the BATS, the VIENNA DIVING DUCKS are also back in the highest division…

The Austrian Baseball League club UNION KUFSTEIN VIKINGS brings in a new head coach/player for the 2009 season. The 25-year-old Canadian Chris Piano replaces the Australian Todd Fairbrother, who cannot come back…

The Austrian Baseball League club SUPERFUND WANDERERS VIENNA confirmed this week on their website that Hiro Sakanashi stays for another year and that Clemens Cichocki returns to the team. Sakanashi will be…

The sixth-ranked team in the 2008 season of the Austrian Baseball League, the DORNBIRN INDIANS, announced this week on their website that the Venezuelan utility man Richard Bermudez stays with the team…

The former Seattle Mariner Greg McCarthy joins the reigning Austrian Champion MOSQUITO ATHLETICS ATTNANG-PUCHHEIM as new head coach. He succeeds Mike Schulz. McCarthy was born on October 30th, 1968 in Norwalk, Connecticut….

The 2008 Austrian champion MOSQUITO ATHLETICS ATTNANG-PUCHHEIM announced on their website last weekend that right-handed pitcher Carter Clements will leave the club for the SCHAUMBURG FLYERS of the independent Northern League. The…

The 2008 Austrian Baseball champion MOSQUITO ATHLETICS announced that the 17-year-old catcher Markus Efferdinger will join the club for the 2009 season. Due to a loan contract he will be eligible to…

Michael Vielhaber had another round of rumors from the Austrian Baseball League online at sportnet.at last week. Let’s take a look at the new stuff. The 26-year-old Hiroyuki Sakanashi is apparently thinking…

Michael Vielhaber, who reports from the Austrian Baseball League (ABL) all year long, has summed up the first part of the hot stove in Austria on Sportnet.at. Here are the important names…

The MOSQUITO ATHLETICS succeeded the VIENNA METROSTARS and won the Austrian Baseball League Championship on Saturday. They defeated the UNION KUFSTEIN VIKINGS in front of 300 people in the stands twice to…

by Peter Ferak, coverguy.wordpress.com For the twenty-fourth time the Champion of the Austrian Baseball League will be crowned this weekend in Attnang-Puchheim. The home team MOSQUITO Athletics picked up a win in…

The people in Kufstein saw two games dominated by pitching at the start of the Austrian Baseball League finals. In game one, Walter Strasser led the ATHLETICS to a 3-0 shutout, winning…

by Peter Ferak, coverguy.wordpress.com The Athletics steamrolled the Schwaz Tigers and are now looking to get a good start into the ABL-Finals in Kufstein this weekend. Meanwhile, the Vikings grabbed a ‘last…

The MOSQUITO ATHLETICS and the UNION KUFSTEIN VIKINGS will play for the Austrian championship in the finals, starting next week. The A’s completed a three-game sweep over the SCHWAZ TIGERS on Saturday…

The second part of the semi-final round in the Austrian Baseball League takes place this weekend. The MOSQUITO ATHLETICS hope for the sweep against the SCHWAZ TIGERS after taking a 2-0 lead…

The playoffs in the Austrian Baseball League began on Saturday with games one and two of the semi-final best-of-five series and the dominating team of the last months continued their winning ways….

by Peter Ferak, coverguy.wordpress.com There’s only one question when it comes to the ABL-Playoffs. What phrases will the highly animated, as well as highly talented, Cuban third baseman for the MOSQUITO Athletics…

The regular season in the Austrian Baseball League is over. The playoffs can come. The 2007 champion Vienna Metrostars defeated the Superfund Wanderers on Tuesday 4-2 and finishes in fifth place of…

The UNION KUFSTEIN VIKINGS lost their last regular season game in the Austrian Baseball League in DORNBIRN 13-14 and finishes in third place in the standings. Despite having a game open next…

The Austrian Baseball League concludes its schedule this weekend with a bunch of more or less meaningless games. The only open question is, which team will finish in second place behind leader…