In the Italian Serie A1 Unipol Bologna lost its first game of the season Thursday, when the Godo Knights prevailed 4-1. Bologna rebounded on Friday with a 14-0 rout. Parmaclima and Autovia…
Results Baseball League Austria May 30 to June 1, 2019
In the Baseball League Austria the Vienna Metrostars celebrated three wins this past weekend. On Thursday they downed the Diving Ducks Wiener Neustadt. On Saturday they swept a doubleheader against the Traiskirchen…
Stefano Michelini leaves Unipol Bologna as President in a few months
Unipol Bologna president Stefano Michelini is going to leave his post according to a report by Baseball.it. He will leave the club in a couple of months. He headed Bologna from 1999…
ISG Baseball Conducts Historic Coaching Classes in Cuba
by ISG Baseball ISG Baseball became the first organization to travel to Cuba with American coaches and present coaching courses to Cuban baseball coaches since before that country’s historic change of…
2019 Golden Spikes Award Finalists Announced
Press release USA Baseball DURHAM, N.C. – USA Baseball announced the four finalists for the 2019 Golden Spikes Award on Wednesday. JJ Bleday (Vanderbilt), Adley Rutschman (Oregon State) and Noah Song (Navy)…
MLB Awards the 2021 All-Star Game to the Atlanta Braves
Press release Major League Baseball ATLANTA – Commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. announced today that Major League Baseball has awarded the 2021 All-Star Game Presented by Mastercard and accompanying All-Star Week events…
MLB and the Cleveland Indians Launch Revamped All-Star Balloting for the 2019 Midsummer Classic on MLB.com
Press release Major League Baseball Major League Baseball will mark the official start of All-Star Balloting today at 2:00 p.m. (ET) for the 2019 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard, which will…
Max Kepler, Nolan Arenado Named W.B. Mason Players of the Week
Press release Major League Baseball Outfielder Max Kepler of the surging Minnesota Twins has been named the W.B. Mason American League Player of the Week, and All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado of…
Swiss National Team wins Swiss International Alpine Cup in Zurich
The Swiss National Team won the 2019 Swiss International Alpine Cup in Zurich, Switzerland this past weekend. Switzerland beat the German 2nd Baseball-Bundesliga club Tubingen Hawks in the final by a score…
Results Bulgarian Baseball League 2019 May 25&26
by Alex Gorrin May 25 Buffaloes Blagoevgrad v Athletic Sofia 13:4 Buffaloes Blagoevgrad v Akademiks Sofia 11:4 May 26 Akademiks Sofia v Coyotes Dupnitsa 9:0 (ff) Lions NSA Sofia v Athletic Sofia…
Baseball Mexico: Monday, May 27, 2019
by Bruce Baskin, Baseball Mexico, http://baseballmexico.blogspot.com/ RIELEROS’ VARGAS AT 26 HOMERS AFTER 3-HR GAME Aguascalientes Rieleros third baseman Jose Vargas has opened a sizeable lead in the Mexican League’s home run title…
18-year-old Dutch RHP Arij Fransen signs with Cincinnati Reds
18-year-old Dutch right-hander Arij Fransen is signing with the Cincinnati Reds organization. The reliever of HCAW won the U18 European Championship with the Netherlands last year. He started his baseball career as…
Baseball Softball UK to support festival celebrating the first recorded baseball game
by Baseball Softball UK, www.baseballsoftballuk.com The first documented game of baseball was played in Ashley Park, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey in 1749, and in a summer when the London Series will give baseball its…
Dutch Infielder Sharlon Schoop joins L&D Amsterdam
L&D Amsterdam has added Dutch infielder Sharlon Schoop to the roster for the 2019 season. The 31-year-old is coming from the Baltimore Orioles, where he played in the minor leagues since 2014….
Swiss International Alpine Cup in Zurich from Friday to Sunday
The 2019 Swiss International Alpine Cup will take place in Zurich from Friday to Sunday. Participants are the Swiss National Team, the Swiss U23 National Team, the Tubingen Hawks from Germany, X-Presidents,…
Battle for Britain Tournament this weekend
The Kent Buccaneers will host the Battle for Britain Baseball Tournament this weekend with teams from Ireland, Scotland and England competing from May 25 to 27 in the event. Schedule:
France to face USA U19 and Japan U20 Teams in Preparation of Women’s Softball Euros
The French Baseball and Softball Federation (FFBS) announced the second edition of the Achille Challenge, the France International Fastpitch Softball Tournament. The tournament will take place in Evry from June 21 to…
“Fun At Bat” to be Implemented in Schools Throughout Mexico
Press release Major League Baseball MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – Major League Baseball and USA Baseball announced that “Fun At Bat” (www.funatbat.org), the introductory and character building bat-and-ball program designed for use in…
Ken Eriksen named USA Softball Head Coach for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
By World Baseball Softball Confederation, www.wbsc.org USA Softball announced long-time Women’s National Team leader Ken Eriksen as the Head Coach for the Tokyo 2020 U.S. Olympic Softball Team. Selected by members of…
L&D Amsterdam Pirates name Ballpark after Club Founder at 60th anniversary
L&D Amsterdam renamed its Ookmeer ballpark during a ceremony this past weekend into Loek Loevendie Ballpark. 87-year-old Loek Loevendie was the founder and long time youth coach of the Amsterdam Pirates, which…
Mexico announces Preliminary Roster for Premier12
Mexico is hosting one of the preliminary round groups at WBSC’s Premier12 in November of 2019. On Tuesday the Mexican Baseball Federation released a preliminary roster for the Premier12, which is stacked…
Great Britain U-22 and U-19 Women Softball select teams for Canada
by British Softball Federation, www.britishsoftball.org Coaches for the GB Under-22 and GB Under-19 Women’s Teams have announced the players selected to compete this summer at the Canada Cup in Surrey, British Columbia….
Results Spanish Division de Honor Softball May 18 & 19, 2019
In the Spanish Division de Honor Softball the first phase of the championship ended this past weekend except for a doubleheader between Atletico San Sebastian and CS Fenix Valencia, which got postponed…
Results German Softball-Bundesliga May 18, 2019
In the German Softball-Bundesliga the Wesseling Vermins improved to 10-0 for the season with two wins over the Mannheim Tornados. Also the Neunkirchen Nightmares and Tubingen Hawks celebrated two-win weekends. The Buchbinder…
Results Italian Serie A1 Softball May 18 & 19, 2019
Similar to the Italian Serie A1 Baseball also the Italian Serie A1 Softball suffered from rainouts this past weekend. Poderi Dal Nespoli Forli split against Specchiasol Bussolengo, as did Saronno Softball against…