{"id":2098,"date":"2009-02-22T18:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2009-10-18T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:04:22","slug":"baseball-in-the-north-a-new-structure-for-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2098","title":{"rendered":"Baseball in the north: a new structure for 2009?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With only two teams completing the National Baseball League North season last year (stripping any excitement from the competition for the two berths in the Final Fours), a big question for this off-season was how the teams in the north would be structured in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northernleaguebaseball.co.uk\/2009\/01\/27\/2009-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to<\/a> Matthew Norburn, the Northern Senior League Commissioner, writing on his recently established blog, we could see a total overhaul of the existing multi-division set-up, with the introduction of a single-division &#8220;super league&#8221;. Norburn&#8217;s plan is to have around 22 games per team, played as double-headers.<\/p>\n<p>One point not covered by Norburn, though, is how many teams from the &#8220;super league&#8221; would qualify for the finals. Another question that remains is whether the National Baseball League South will drop the last word from its name.<\/p>\n<p>Norburn wrote his post nearly 4 weeks ago, so there should have been developments since then. It will be fascinating to see the full details once they are worked out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Mark Tobin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseballdata.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">www.britishbaseballdata.co.uk<\/a> for drawing my attention to the story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With only two teams completing the National Baseball League North season last year (stripping any excitement from the competition for the two berths in the Final Fours), a big question for this off-season was how the teams in the north would be structured in 2009. According to Matthew Norburn, the Northern Senior League Commissioner, writing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","tag-british-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}