{"id":479,"date":"2008-06-28T10:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T09:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=479"},"modified":"2008-06-28T10:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T09:32:23","slug":"bbf-baseball-bulletin-and-european-baseball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"BBF Baseball Bulletin and European baseball news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To follow on from Joe&#8217;s post below, more details about the name change can be found in the latest edition of the British Baseball Federation&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishbaseball.org\/downloads\/BB_Bull_June_July08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Baseball Bulletin<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 This brings you all of the latest news, from both on and off the field, relating to British baseball and softball.\u00c2\u00a0 Highlights include features on the Northern Knights&#8217; participation in the Zulpich Tournament in May, the Great Britain national team&#8217;s second place finish in the Four Nations cup and the GB Juniors roster.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe&#8217;s own great work in compiling and publishing statistics for the Southern League is given a well-deserved plug and there&#8217;s also a mention for <em>BaseballGB<\/em> as well.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re visiting the site for the first time having read about us in the Bulletin, thanks for giving us a look and I hope you enjoy reading our thoughts and opinions on the sport.<\/p>\n<p>The one other main item to highlight is the news that the IBAF have announced tentative plans to create a professional European baseball league, which should debut in 2010.\u00c2\u00a0 More thoughts on this can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mister-baseball.com\/schiller-professional-baseball-league-europe-starting-2010\" target=\"_blank\">Mister Baseball.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It certainly sounds like something that will be of great benefit to baseball in Europe, both in developing European players and providing a high-level competition that can help sell the sport in this continent.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To follow on from Joe&#8217;s post below, more details about the name change can be found in the latest edition of the British Baseball Federation&#8217;s Baseball Bulletin.\u00c2\u00a0 This brings you all of the latest news, from both on and off the field, relating to British baseball and softball.\u00c2\u00a0 Highlights include features on the Northern Knights&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}