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Morning of April 4th, 1957
The first series of games finished the previous evening and after three games the standings in the inaugural European Baseball Community were
Luxembourg 3-0
Netherlands 3-0
Italy 2-1
West Germany 1-2
France 0-3
Belgium 0-3
Philippe Lebeau from Luxembourg is leading the batting averages with 0.727 (8-11)
May 1st, 1957
A whole month has passed since the start of the season and people are still attending in droves, though how much of this is down to the subsidies provided by the national governments. The Netherlands have done the most to keep their start going opening up a 4 game lead over the Italians
Netherlands 20-8
Italy 16-12
Luxembourg 15-13
France 12-16
West Germany 11-17
Belgium 10-18
Neill Bartwijk from Utrecht has been the batting find of the month. In 28 games he has raked in 38 hits from 101 AB giving him an average of 0.376 - he isn't that great a power hitter but has great speed on the basepaths coupled with an eye for the gap allowing him to record 8 doubles and 3 triples which are league leading values.
Yassine Schmit from Provence has been causing catchers no ends of problems by stealing 12 bases in the month.
Home run leader is Miles Blankendaal with five round trippers in his 24 games.
Sake Buddenberg from Rotterdam is the star pitcher so far with a 6-0 record with an ERA of 1.19 and WHIP of 0.79. In all but one of his 6 starts he has gone the distance recording a league leading 5 complete games. He also leads the league in strikeouts with 43.
Top reliever is Raymond Maneilli who has posted a 2-0 record with 2 saves.
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