Baseball In New Zealand
The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800 and settled there. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the…
Baseball In Brazil
Brazil is one of the few countries in the world where baseball wasn’t introduced by Americans. In fact, baseball was brought to Brazil from…
The Travis Snider 2012 Pittsburgh Pirates Retrospective
Right before the regular season started, the Toronto Blue Jays sent Travis Snider to AAA Las Vegas to work on his swing. Snider’s swing…
The Top Ten Moments of the Toronto Blue Jays’ 2012 Season
Wow. What a miserable season 2012 turned out to be, eh? The arm-shattering in the starting rotation was unprecedented. The much-ballyhooed bullpen imploded early…
Disappointed in the Toronto Media’s Escobar Coverage
Although I really didn’t want to have to blog about this issue, the lack of understanding surrounding the Yunel Escobar fiasco has led me…
Baseball In Great Britain
Despite a general lack of familiarity and ambivalence towards the sport by the British public, baseball has a surprisingly long and storied history in Great Britain….