CHINA - They're baaaack. The reigning Olympic baseball champions from Cuba will be looking to claim their fourth gold medal when skipper Antonio Pacheco's squad battles unbeaten South Korea on Saturday night. And, it's no surprise. The star-studded Cuban lineup features a cast ...
One of the challenges of collecting baseball cards as a young boy was getting enough good players to form a major league squad and my very own minor league system. My neighbor Donald Beatty and myself even invented a game in which we used the little white tops on ...
Now, the "real" Olympic baseball tournament begins. Forget everything that happened in the preliminary round. Cuba, Team USA, Japan and South Korea already have. All that matters now is a two-game winning streak. I took offense to the Beijing Olympic site describing ...
If you've noticed some recent changes at BaseballdeWorld, you are not alone. Because the majority of our readers are from Asia and the United States - we have redesigned the site to appeal to a wider Asian and American audience. Once the Olympics are over - BaseballdeWorld will be putting ...
I like Harvey Schiller. And, the IBAF is lucky the American accepted the "huge" challenge of getting baseball back on the Olympic slate. However, growing the game in Europe might be an impossible task even for a man with his ...
An aching back, intestinal discomfort and a high fever has resulted in a part-time workload this past week. Today's column was to spotlight the continued rise of Asian baseball...but this Texas weed is sweating buckets, and craving painkillers. Still - the show must go on.
"And I'm proud to be an," oops...it's too early for Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad. The two things I enjoyed most about coaching was watching young talent develop and scouting. Give me some barbecue, a note pad and a bottle of Crown Royale and "Coach" was loving sitting in the shade ...