Author Archives: Dennis Duin

The third team in our roundup is Italy. This other European baseball powerhouse is participating in Baseball Week for the seventh time, but has never managed to win the tournament. In fact, the teams they’ve beaten in those previous appearances can be counted on one hand […]

In Part 1 of our three-part series on The Future of Baseball, we looked at new rules designed to make the sport more appealing. In this episode, we turn our attention to an innovation intended to make the sport fairer: the Automated Ball-Strike System—ABS for short, but commonly referred to as “robot umps.” Grumbling […]

After introducing European champions Spain to you last week, it’s now Team USA’s turn. The Americans are coming to Haarlem with a slightly younger squad than last year. Get to know the stars of the tournament ahead of time. Two years ago, we were treated to a rock-solid American squad. Standout players […]

The first team we’d like to introduce is Baseball Week debutant Spain. Although this Southern European team is making its first trip to Haarlem, their fifteen bronze medals at the European Championships mean they can rightly be called the “best of the rest” behind the Netherlands and Italy—a status they’ve held for as long as anyone can remember. In recent years, the team led by head coach […]

The sport that is still sometimes affectionately referred to as America’s National Pastime has been losing ground for years to sports such as American football, basketball, and soccer. In an effort to turn the tide and make the sport faster, more spectacular, and more unpredictable for a younger audience, various rule changes have been tested in recent years. In this first episode […]