The European Baseball League
 

Introducing the European Baseball League.

The league concept:

Two teams each from 24 European countries, 3 subleagues with 8 teams each.

The division winners plus one Wild-Card team will go to the play-offs - Wild-Card Series (best-of-seven), League Championship Series (best-of-seven) and the World Series (best-of-seven).

The league logo was created by txranger

The subleagues are the "Magic League" and the "Dynamic League"

The Magic League East has teams from Russia, Turkey, Greece and Poland

The Magic League Central has teams from Germany (including my Frankenthal Palatines), Croatia, Switzerland and Denmark

In the Magic League West we have teams from The Netherlands, France, Belgium and Spain

Teams in the Dynamic League East come from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia and Finland.

The Dynamic League Central has teams from Norway, Austria, Sweden and Italy

And finally the Dynamic League West wih teams from Ireland/Northern Ireland, Portugal, Scotland and England

I'll post interesting things from this league in this thread, in addition to "When you enter the bottom of the 6th ..."

Poor Ali Bleeker - early in the 1956 season he is ranked second in the league in HR's ... but not quite as high in RBI's :crying:

Enjoyed looking at the franchise uni's/caps/logo's.

Just 4 teams to the post-season. Make them earn it, I say.

You need to rename Stockholm the Syndrome.

Nice names Good story!

Probably ... not :lol:

Nice pitching effort
 

The first perfect game in season 7 of our short history:

Here's the boxscore

Well, my pitching staff struck right back ... three days later we pitched a perfect game, and poor Belgrad, victims of two perfect games in four days :crying:

After losing the perfect game to Lissabon on May 1, the Belgrad Knights beat them 2:1 before losing 6:0, being held to 5 hits ... then came the perfect game of my Palatines ... so their offense is in a real slump right now

79 pitches = perfection. Quite an outing.

The first of the perfecto's interesting in that it was a lead-off homer and after that virtually no offense to speak of.

If the Knights don't pick it up a notch or two we'll be calling for a name change to the 'Mendoza's' ;-)

Good races going on in the early going of the 1956 season:

Sitting in a coffee shop in Holland, Michigan (my hometown) shortly after the big Tulip Time Festival, I am feeling compelled to pull for those Amsterdam Tulips. Go Tulips! (Hmm, that sounds a little silly now that I say it aloud. :laugh: )