Baseball history will be made this week when the Hertfordshire Baseball Club hosts the first ever Herts Baseball derby. The Herts Falcons will clash against the Herts Hawks at Grovehill Field,
Both teams have been building up to this game ever since the 2007 League schedule was published. The Falcons come into the game as the odds-on favourites to win both games. Over the last few weeks Falcons players have gone on record to say that they will administer an embarrassing beating which the Hawks will remember for years to come. The war of words escalated to such an extent that the club’s internet Forum has been overloaded with page after page of pre-game exchanges.
The Hawks have kept quite in the pre-game build up, probably fearing the worst, but no matter how much the odds are stacked against them, in baseball miracles do happen and a miracle is what the Herts Hawks will need if they are to stand any chance of even staying close to the Falcons.
The two teams have met 6 times in the past but only in non-league exhibition games as part of the “Kyle Hunlock” Series last September. The Falcons won those Series 4-2 and off-the-record they would probably claim that they handed the two wins out of pity for the Hawks and to extend the season by a week or two.
The Hertfordshire Baseball Club invites all baseball and non-baseball fans to come along and witness baseball history being made this Sunday and maybe to enjoy a picnic in the pleasant surroundings of our home field. Game 1 starts at