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EUROBASEBALL 2025: Great Britain and the cliché Group of Death In just a few weeks, 16 of Europe’s finest baseballing nations will compete for the European Championship. In 2023, Europe’s most prestigious baseball event produced a cascade of excite…

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Only 6 weeks until @GB_Baseball tackle the "Group of Death" in the Euros.

#EuroBaseball #EuroBaseball2025 #BaseballEurope #LetsGoGB

Forget the last few months, the Baseball Season proper starts in August There are, as you can guess by our name, plenty of baseball nerds in the UK. However, there are also many non-nerds for whom the first week of August represents the “proper” start of the baseball s…

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🚨 NEW POD! 🚨

We’re talking London events, All-Star snubs, that Skubal guy and which teams should be buying or selling! 🤝

Available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube! 📺 🎧

Coaching Playbook – UK’s Dynamic Coach Education and Development Programme Designed in collaboration with the British Baseball Federation and British Softball Federation, and with input from stakeholders across the UK, the Coaching Playbook sets the standard that all Brit…

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Ok, I’ll bite:

1. Judge
2. Soto
3. Freeman
4. Ohtani
5. Lars Nootbar (just by name alone he could be in the top 3)
6. Rickey Henderson (I refuse to believe he’s dead and he may still be playing under an assumed name)
7. James Wood
8. Tarik Skubal
9. Vladdy Jr.
10. Cedric Mullins

Enjoying the methodology here!!

Hot takes wanted! 🔥

We’re hopping on the podcast mics tonight to debate ‘who are the best 10 players in baseball’?

And we want to hear your lists - or at least an outside shout at who you think we should consider. Go! 💬

Outstanding piece from @justintinsley.bsky.social

And huge kudos to the awesome Xavier Scruggs for saying everything that needs to be said, despite his work with the league 👏

How Baseball Films reflected American Religious Life Films reflect life and they do so in often unexpected ways, or not in the way that they seem to on the surface, and sometimes in the ways that the makers of the films didn’t consciously intend them…

Fascinating article on the website today from Jonathan Plummer, author of a new book "Movies and the Church of Baseball: Religion in the Cinema of the National Pastime"

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My Baseball Origin Story: Josh Wright A niche within a niche: a British Twins fan. In short, it was me thinking up date ideas with my now-wife. I am an all-round British sports nerd, but American sports had stayed on the fringes for me…

A Brit who is also a Twins fan. Talk about niche.

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Aotearoa at Bat: Forging the Future with Baseball New Zealand’s Pathways Programme More and more young Kiwis are looking beyond rugby and cricket for something a bit different – and baseball’s stepping up to the plate. With growing interest and support, Baseball New Zealand is la…

Baseball is global! New Zealand baseball fan @coryxturner.bsky.social got in touch with Bat Flips & Nerds to explain how the game is growing in Aotearoa.

Want to write for us? Check out the link on the website.

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YouTube video by Bat Flips & Nerds Beginner's Guide To Baseball Stats - Episode 1: Batting Average

Check out our YouTube Channel for our latest piece of content, The Bat Flips and Nerds Beginners Guide to Baseball Stats. Episode 1 is on Batting Average.

It's exclusive to our YouTube Channel and you won't be hearing it in any pod.

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Middle bottom is taken from the ‘cause of death’ column in a 19th century register of English infant mortality.

Great to be in such August company.

Jake & Jordan are the best.

We can’t all like everything can we? Keeps it interesting.

Not offended by them, just find it dull.

It’s just really boring stuff to me.

Luke warm and lacking spark.

Good for them on making a success of it.

Yer man, I meant.

But also booze.

I don’t drink.

It’s not for me.

That platform is just the weakest piss going.

Joyless content farming led by a charisma void frontman who once did a good video about bins.

Is that ‘thing’ a name brand, over the counter painkiller?

Join the statistical revolution 📈

What’s Occurrin’? Last Week in Baseball (4 April) Baseball is back, and life is good unless you are an Atlanta Braves fan. The opening week of the 2025 season provided some incredible action.  Here is your five-minute roundup of the week’s ba…

Your 5-min roundup of the week's action. It's more Bat flippy and less nerdy

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If nobody got me, Wilmer Flores got me Allow me to set the scene: It’s Opening Day and the conditions are perfect inside Cincinnati’s beautiful Great American Ballpark. The sights, sounds and smells of our beloved game have returned for…

Here's Ash Day reflecting on the San Francisco Giants' Opening Week

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Tampa Bay Rays: Five Players to Watch in 2025 Having missed the playoffs just once in the last six seasons, the Tampa Bay Rays have discovered how to achieve a level of success that belies their salary liabilities. Adam Cockerill offers five p…

Five Rays players to watch in 2025 from Adam Cockerill
Who you would you choose?
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Wanted! The next Liam Carroll, Drew Spencer, Bruce Bochy It was a shocker to learn that Drew Spencer, Great Britain’s inspirational head coach, had resigned his position to concentrate on his New York Yankees career. Drew stepped into huge shoes tr…

Liam and Drew set the bar high. Who do you want as the next GB manager? Tell us 👇

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No April Fool’s Joke – Twins DFA their Best Pitcher this Season Minnesota Twins’ dismal start to the season got a little bit worse on Sunday when star pitcher Bailey Ober was pulled after just 2 ⅔ innings with the St Louis Cardinals already having eight r…

Not an April Fool Joke

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An Understated Joy of Baseball: On the Train to Opening Day There’s something uniquely vibrant about sharing a train ride packed full of excited sports fans, all heading toward the anticipation of a baseball game. This simple journey, an everyday comm…

Baseball is more than just on field action. It's also about the memories you make travelling to the game

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Explaining the Dodgers to a Non-baseball Sports Fan One of my mates, let’s call him Martin, is on holiday in California and intends to take in a Los Angeles Dodgers game. Previously, he was an exceptional cricketer and is a knowledgeable sports fan,…

How would YOU explain the Dodgers to a non-baseball pal?

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The Process (plus) of projecting I spend far too much time looking at baseball statistics on the internet. In doing so I meet so many fascinating statistics that are outside the realms of baseball reference. One though has stuck w…

Get your NERD on this weekend with @alexwilliamsonmlb.bsky.social's latest article

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Join us for live MLB, beers and batting cages!

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