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May's suggestion was
www.webball.com. They have
an extensive archive of coaching
tips, and a monthly newsletter
that's quite informative. It's a
"commercial" site (in that it
sells stuff) but the guy says
that all profits are put back
into supporting the web
resource. Seems reasonable.
Worth a look. |
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June's suggestion was
www.baseballguru.com.
Information, history, news,
links, coaching, games and a
kids' area.
A little offbeat, but hey -
nothing wrong with that!. |
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July's suggestion was
www.baseball-fever.com.
Probably the internet's premier
baseball forum site. Discuss
ANYTHING to do with baseball. |
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August's suggestion is
www.baseball-links.com,
Probably the internet's premier
baseball links site.
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October's suggestion was
www.oursportscentral.com.
Although it's not strictly a
baseball site (it covers other
American sports too), it does
have excellent coverage of an
area of which we see little in
Oz:- the US Minor Leagues. Of
particular interest is their
mapping service which shows how
the Minors are broken up
geographically. The site also
has a complete set of links to
all of the US professional
leagues, which makes it a useful
portal.
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November's pick was
www.rauzulusstreet.com.
Yep, weird name.
It's a sports directory of
sorts, and is one of the most
comprehensive resources for US
baseball that we've found. The
Baseball Area includes links to
all the major baseball teams,
the minor leagues and college
baseball conferences. In
addition there are extensive
records for major league
baseball, and past champions for
minor and college leagues or
conferences. |
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In December, we liked
www.qcbaseball.com.
The "QC" stands for "Quality
Coaching", and the site contains
baseball instruction, baseball
drills, coaching philosophy, and
other information for youth
baseball coaches, players, and
parents who want to learn more
about playing and coaching
baseball. |
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For January 2007, it was about
time to include a home grown
site:
Flintoff & Dunn.
This is a site that's been going
for well over a decade:- way
back when the World Wide Web was
little more than embryonic. The
site deals with all aspects of
Australian Major League
Baseball:- those players who
make it to Major, National or
International Leagues. |
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February's feature was
Cot's Baseball Contracts,
named for Cotton Tierney, who
was the NL's fifth-leading
hitter in 1922 and played the
next season for a mere $5,000.
It's an unofficial record of MLB
contracts, team-by-team. A real
eye-opener. |
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Next came an intriguing site,
again dealing with the business
of baseball. Aptly named,
The Biz of Baseball goes a
long way to de-mystifying the
backroom deals and front-office
blustering that makes a sport
into a business. Have you ever
wondered just how baseball
functions as a business?
Check it out - you'll never look
at the diamond the same way
again. |
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The
Israel Baseball League is a
fascinating study in how to
create something from nothing.
It's a brand new professional
league that's been carved out of
a vision for baseball in one of
the more troubled places in the
world. Definitely worth a few
minutes on a rainy day. And yes,
you'll find an ex-Hills Junior
player on the roster! |
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In May 2007, we directed you to
the
UK Baseball & Softball website.
That suggestion was to commend
the site's design and structure,
rather than its content. It's
far better than anything
developed in Australia in our
opinion, and serves as a lesson
in what's possible in web-based
communication. |
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June
presented us with a poignant, sometimes funny but always
engaging blog, instead of a conventional website.
Ken Hoffman, from Houston Texas, writes about
coaching his son's Little League team. |
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In
August, we suggested you have a look at the
American
Hall of Fame website. This year saw the
induction of two recent greats:- Cal Ripken Jnr
and Tony Gwynn. For those of us who are
relatively recent converts to the game, this is
the first year when we were able to truly relate
to the inductees, having probably seen them play
in the nineties.
The
website allows us to peek into the past too, and
to catch a glimpse of why the game itself has
such deep roots in American culture. |
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In
September 2007, it's appropriate that we feature the US
Little League site. After all, the programme seems
set to be part of the Australian junior baseball
landscape in years to come, so we probably all need to
have a quick look at the way it works in its home
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In
April 2008, we bookmarked the
International
Baseball Federation:- the international governing
body of baseball. With baseball due to drop out of
the Olympic programme in 2012, and with Australia
failing to qualify for the Beijing games, it's
appropriate to ask "where to now?" for our sport and our
place in it. |
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The
very weirdly named
Unpage site is our pick this
month, carrying through the
theme of all things Little
league. The Unpage website is
dedicated to providing you with
current and historical coverage
of Little League Baseball state
and region tournaments in the
major baseball (11-12 years old)
division. It has started
covering the Australian region
this year, and has an impressive
range of information and links.
This looks like the right place
to follow our team's progress in
Hong Kong |
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