{"id":9171,"date":"2010-09-16T07:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T06:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9171"},"modified":"2010-09-18T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T13:31:36","slug":"a-brief-british-baseball-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9171","title":{"rendered":"A Brief British Baseball Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bbbHlsq\"With the National Baseball Championships settled more than a week ago, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a great deal of news to report from the British Baseball scene.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s column will probably be the last weekly full-length edition for 2010, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do a round-up column or two later in the year, while adding in shorter posts to cover any news about offseason changes and 2011 plans.<\/p>\n

Youth Baseball Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n

The main newsworthy event of the last seven days has been the youth championship qualifiers that were played over the 11-12 September weekend.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

As reported on the BBF website<\/a>, London Mets Bronco and Herts All Stars qualified in the Bronco section, while Cobham Cougars and London Mets Pony made it through to the Pony section.\u00c2\u00a0 Full details of the games involving the Herts All Star team can be found on the Herts Baseball website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those four teams will\u00c2\u00a0compete alongside Cartmel Valley, Manchester Saints, Polecats Bronco and Polecats Pony in the National Youth Baseball Championships at the John Mills Ballpark in Halton ballpark this coming weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 The BBF will be using the GameChanger live scoring service<\/a>, so the action can be followed as it happens or you can read all the stats once the games have been completed.<\/p>\n

Good luck to all involved.<\/p>\n

Hit the Pitch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reading about the efforts to get youngsters playing baseball has reminded me to promote the developing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHit the Pitch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 website<\/a> produced by BaseballSoftballUK.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHit the Pitch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 programme is designed to offer an accessible and easy way to introduce people to baseball and softball:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153At the core of this project are easy to access, flexible pick-up sessions where new participants and those eager to get back into the game can pitch up and start playing – no strings attached.Although there are opportunities to play in clubs and leagues across the country, Hit the Pitch programmes have been set up to be flexible and easy to access. There are no club committees, no heavy membership fees and no long trips to away games, ideal for you and a group of friends or colleagues eager to have fun, get fit and try something new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The website as a whole will be a hub for the baseball\/softball community and provide resources and information for anyone who wants to get involved in either sport.<\/p>\n

BBB Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of my pre-Xmas offseason projects is to collect all this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BBB columns together in one volume, most likely a pdf (thanks to Joe for the idea).\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be adding in some of the comments that many of you kindly contributed, where they gave updates and a bit more information about the topics covered in each column.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to include some photos and additional commentary along the way as well.<\/p>\n

It should make for quite a neat record of the 2010 season and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll post more details about it later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Youth Championship news, details about BSUK’s ‘Hit the Pitch’ project and some info about a British Baseball Beat annual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-9171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-beat","tag-british-baseball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171","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=9171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9189,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9171\/revisions\/9189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}