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Stephen Strasburg Photo by Icon SMI Throughout the course of the year, there are several different dates/events that receive plenty of hype and that fans look forward to.  Opening Day, Week 1, the All-Star Break , the Trade Deadline and Free Agency are just a handful.  Another event that generates plenty of hype and optimism is the Amateur Draft.  Each sport has one with varying levels of media coverage.  The NFL and  NBA drafts, rightfully so, generate the most fanfare because the impact... Read Full Story

Picture Taken from Google Images By Brendan Bisschop AMSTERDAM – As of Friday, July 9 Haarlem is ten days in the sign of the silver jubilee of the Haarlem Baseball Week . This summer Haarlem still writes a piece of history in sport. From July the 9th to the 18th, the 25th edition will take place. It all started in 1961, and now almost 50 years later, the organization managed to bring into the Pim Mulier Stadium , six baseball teams to tie in the top 10 teams in the world. Venezuela will... Read Full Story

Brad Bergesen Photo by Icon SMI Considering that he has just been demoted to the minors, it might seem strange to now be comparing struggling Baltimore Orioles pitcher Brad Bergesen with Hall of Famer Jim Palmer . However, it is often forgotten that like Bergesen, after early success Palmer also struggled before eventually becoming the best pitcher in Orioles history. In 1966, the 20-year-old Palmer won 16 games and pitched a shutout against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series... Read Full Story

Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for updates on this topic. Powered by WP Greet Box WordPress Plugin Photo of Doala by Susan Hamaker The Phillies have their Phanatic , San Diego has a famous chicken , and the Mets have a guy with a giant baseball for a head. But in Japan, each team has a family of mascots. A lot of them are birds; most of them are . . . just . . . strange. The dragons of the Chunichi Dragons look like pink and blue aliens, and the... Read Full Story

If you had told me before the season began that, come the beginning of June, the Cardinals would be trailing the Cincinnati Reds in the National League Central standings, I’d have smiled and shaken my head.  If you’d told me that in mid-April, when the Cardinals had roared out to a five-game lead in the division, I believe I’d have outright laughed. Yet, here before games on June 14, the Cardinals reside in second place, a full game and a half behind the Reds.  Exactly what has happened to... Read Full Story

The first round of Major League Baseball’s 2010 first-year player draft featured many unexpected surprises, including the position at which Bryce Harper was drafted. As expected, the Washington Nationals made the 17-year-old Junior College standout the No. 1 overall pick last Monday night. Unexpectedly, they selected the switch hitter as an outfielder instead of a catcher, the position at which Harper has played the most. Ultimately, the Nationals decided Harper’s 80 raw power , excellent... Read Full Story

Ugh!! What can I say?! I know that baseball is a marathon not a sprint. What this means is that one needs to roll with the highs and lows of their respective team over the course of a long season. I just didn’t expect the highs and lows to come in the same week. Being the emotional and passionate person that I am, this season has all the feel of a fast roller coaster ride. And of course, having been a Giants fan for thirty plus years, there is no way that I’m getting off this ride. The... Read Full Story

Well, we’ve made it to about the one-third mark of the season. Now, let’s take a look at how things progressed during the month of May. What Went Right: May was only 31 days long and it has (finally) come to an end. In all seriousness, I would put the first week of May in the what went right category. The Brewers played well that week, winning 5 of the last 6 games on their west coast road trip by taking 2 of 3 from a solid Dodgers team and taking care of business against the Diamondbacks... Read Full Story

GWW1203 Photo provided by Mizuno USA GWW1203 The Basics from Mizuno The Mizuno GWW1203 is a baseball glove with a Tartan web design (closed back) and ProFlex finger inserts in a pro style pattern. It comes specially tanned in a retro leather for a soft, supple feel for durability allowing for a quicker breaking in period. In fact, it comes nearly game ready for use at either the pitcher or third base positions (editor’s note: this is true for almost all 12″ gloves). It retails at around... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Last week we saw the retirement of one of the truly elite talents in baseball history and one of the most dominant players that played in my (and every other ~23 year old’s) generation.  Ken Griffey Jr. was my first favorite baseball player, the first guy that I would wait to watch on Sports Center and the first (and only) guy that I went out of my way to collect baseball cards for.  As a matter of fact, I still have a box of his cards in my closet.  This got me to... Read Full Story