John Miller, head coach of the Brussels Kangaroos and a reporter for a major American newspaper, is chronicling his team’s 2008 season in a column that will appear every Monday on mister-baseball.com. It is the first of several Mister-Baseball Blogs this year.
European baseball fields squeeze their way into available space. Belgium’s first division yards are near airports, train lines, cemeteries and on top of windy plains. We’re starting a collection of pictures of these interesting diamonds. Here’s one of Kangaroo Field, built over a former soccer pitch in a public park.
Deurne Spartans @ Brussels Kangaroos, Brussels, Belgium, July 26, 2008
Note the 270-foot Net Monster in left-centre. Pitcher’s Hell. On Saturday, we set a team record with, ahem, eleven homeruns. Belgo-Dominician Williams Rosario hit four, including one inside-the-park.
Send the best image you have of your home field to oldworldpastime@gmail.com, and we’ll post it here. Please include a caption listing the date, teams and precise city location of the field. You can add other info if you want. If you have a picture of an empty field, you can send that, too.
Photo: © Leander Schaerlaeckens