BATTER UP! HERTS SPRING LEAGUE SET TO COMMENCE. RECORD NUMBER OF TEAMS ENTER THE COMPETITION
15 March 2009 – Spring has arrived and that means that the baseball season is just around the corner, but before the 2009 Opening Day, fans of British baseball will have a chance to see the teams in action in the Herts Spring League (HSL), organised by Herts Baseball Club. Last year was the […]
GROVEHILL BALLPARK FEATURED ON “MR BASEBALL”
The following article first appeared on the website www.mister-baseball.com. It was written by Joe Gray who also provided the images of Grovehill Ballpark in his article. Joe Gray writes for www.BaseballGB.co.uk and also looks after Great British top-tier statistics, Project Cobb, and theGreat Britain National Team archive. The HERTS FALCONS (Herts Baseball Club’s […]
CONFIDENCE IS THE KEY – JASON GREENBERG, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
In this week’s edition of “Ask the Manager”, we are pleased to be in the company of Herts Falcons Manager, Jason Greenberg. Here are his answers to the questions sent in by visitors of the Herts Baseball Newswire. What was your reason for choosing to play the game of baseball and not one of the […]
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC TO AIR ON ESPN AMERICA
The World Baseball Classic, the game’s premier international tournament, is to air exclusively live on ESPN America (Sky Channel 417 & Virgin Media Channel 533) from Thursday 5th March. Featuring sixteen of the greatest baseball-playing nations from around the globe, the tournament will see the best players in the world – like Derek Jeter, David […]
BASEBALL AND ME
Baseball appears to be receiving more and more coverage on British TV and Radio over the last few years. This Saturday (7 March) at 10:30am Radio 4 will do a special feature on baseball entitled “Baseball and Me”. Simon Schama, who has lived in the United States for 30 years, explores his love of baseball. He first […]
KEEPING AN EYE ON THE FENCE INSTALLATION
Earlier today, work started at Grovehill Ballpark with the installation of the outfield fence. This stage of the project is expected to be completed within a week, subject to suitable weather conditions. By the end of today all 90 or so holes around the two diamonds will be made and the posts will be placed […]
BUILDING WORK COMMENCES AT GROVEHILL BALLPARK
20 months after the start of the Grovehill Ballpark project, work on the baseball diamonds in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire will commence this Monday, 2 March 2009, immediately after Sunday’s Herts Baseball Club Open Trials and exhibition game between the GB Juniors and the Herts Falcons. This first stage of the project will involve the […]
HERTS FALCONS, GB JUNIORS PLAY FIRST GAME OF 2009
Herts seeks National League hopefuls and rookies alike to ‘join the family’. The Herts Falcons Spring Training Camp will face off against the Great Britain Junior National team on Sunday, in what marks the first baseball game of the English pre-season. GB Coach Paul Vernon will field a team of home-grown talent, while Herts […]
HERTS SLUGGER TIM ELKINS CALLED-UP TO BOSTON RED SOX
[written by Newswire contributor and Red Sox 'National' TIM ELKINS, Herts #45] Well, the day had finally arrived. The 6.30am bus from the hotel pulled up outside the Boston Red Sox Player Development Centre in Fort Myers for the start of another Fantasy Camp. 120 like-minded, rabid Red Sox fans turned up to live out […]
HERTS BASEBALL TO FEATURE ON BBC RADIO: SATURDAY 21 FEB, 2.15pm
BBC Three Counties Radio will host Falcons Manager Jason Greenberg on Saturday afternoon's sports round-up, as he works the wires to promote the upcoming Herts Open Trials and Rookies Clinic on Sunday 1 March.On that day, the Herts Baseball Club will undertake their largest adult recruitment event ever. The gates at Grovehill Ballpark will be […]