USA - The Golden Baseball League (GBL) announced today that they have offered professional baseball superstar Rickey Henderson $1 Million if he elects to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown as a San Diego Surf Dawg. "Rickey played his final professional season in the Golden Baseball League in 2005 as a key member of the championship winning San Diego Surf Dawgs," said Golden Baseball League CEO David Kaval. "Cooperstown is the National Baseball Hall of Fame for professional players and ...

I first played email-tag with BaseballdeWorld founder and Chief Editor Marvin Moore early last spring. The reclusive, hermit-like former sports editor and Swiss national baseball team manager was a deeply private individual (who shunned baseball forums and message boards) who walked away from the game a decade ago determined to live a normal life. Moore was a standout prep baseball player at Seagoville High School near Dallas (Texas) where he hit .478 and was the team Offensive Player of the Year in 1983. However, major ...

USA - Dusty Coleman was drafted by the Oakland A's in this summer's MLB draft. And the former O'Gorman standout wants to help other South Dakotans make it to the majors. Coleman, along with members of the Witchita State baseball team, put on a clinic Friday for over 120 kids at Augustana College. And while baseball isn't exactly on most people's minds in late November, Coleman knows the importance of keeping kids motivated during the winter months. Full Article: http://www.keloland.com/Sports/NewsDetail7981.cfm?Id=0,77112

CUBA - German Mesa couldn’t have had a better debut as manager of Industriales, with his team defeating Santiago de Cuba, the defending league champions, on a 4-0 shutout on Tuesday night. Despite allowing 11 walks in the first 4.1 innings —only three short of the game record of 14 by Ariel Prieto— left hander Ian Rendon managed to turn over the mound to Odrisamer Despaigne still with the possibility of a no-hit no-run game. Between the two pitchers they silenced a ...

PHILIPPINES - With the Batangas Bulls reeling from their 16-inning loss to the Muntinlupa Mariners, the Forward Taguig Patriots took advantage late. The Patriots broke a 5-5 tie at the resumption of their suspended game and a 7-7 deadlock in the eighth to defeat the Bulls, 11-7, and finished the classification phase on a winning note. An hour after losing to the Cebu Dolphins, Forward Taguig erupted for a four-run binge in the eighth inning behind the efforts of Fernando Badrina and Tawi delos Reyes. With the win, ...

USA - Cheatham County Central High School football coach Cody Finley will add to his coaching duties in the spring. Finley has volunteered to be the school’s head baseball coach following the resignation of Gary Patterson, CCCHS Athletic Director Jack Morton said last week. Patterson resigned in November after accepting a position as a project manager for a construction company in Houston, Texas. Zach Suggs, who was hired to fill the teaching position vacated by Patterson, will be the assistant baseball coach, Morton said. Full Article: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081203/MTCN0102/312030009/1002/RSS6002

JAPAN - Japanese schoolgirl Eri Yoshida became the country's first woman to sign a professional contract with a men's baseball team. The pint-sized 16-year-old pitcher, whose favorite pitch is a knuckleball, was drafted by Kobe 9 Cruise, a team from the newly formed Kansai independent league, earlier this month. "My hope is to be able to contribute to the team," a nervous-looking Yoshida told a packed news conference. "I just want to be able to play at the same level as my teammates. It is a big stage for me. I can't believe there are so ...