New York Times: The Dutch Are Stunning the World at the Classic
Thursday, 12 March 2009, 12:30
"[T]he Netherlands succeeded in making 2009 memorable. The team with players from Corendon Kinheim, DOOR Neptunus and Veracruz Red Eagles, clubs in the Dutch Major Leagues, outlasted a Dominican team with David Ortiz, Hanley Ramírez and José Reyes. Only five Dutch players have major league experience."
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 08:17
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"Most Dutch baseball teams were in fact started by soccer clubs in search of a sport for the months between soccer seasons. Johan Cruyff, the king of Dutch soccer, began his career as a catcher for Amsterdam Ajax’s nine, before he ever kicked a soccer b
Tuesday, 22 January 2008, 09:17
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Francisco van Jole takes issue with certain online journalists’ groupthink about old media dinosaurs who don’t get it.
Friday, 23 November 2007, 16:14
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"Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin says he wants to formalise the right of journalists to refuse to reveal their sources by incorporating it in legislation."
Monday, 22 October 2007, 16:57
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"Mecom Group Plc holds 86.56 percent of shares in Dutch publisher Koninklijke Wegener NV (and will say by Friday if its takeover offer is unconditional."
Sunday, 14 October 2007, 10:36
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"Greenpeace activists on Saturday blockaded a cargo ship they claimed was carrying newsprint made from trees felled in Canadian old growth forests."
Tuesday, 11 September 2007, 09:44
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David Montgomery tells Reuters that Mecom "has not looked at improving the terms of its bid for Dutch publisher Wegener".
Wednesday, 29 August 2007, 10:31
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"Mecom, the investment vehicle of former Mirror boss David Montgomery, has finally submitted a formal bid for Dutch regional newspaper group Wegener."
Saturday, 21 July 2007, 12:09
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De Volkskrant has accidentally published the real names of bloggers on its site … as a result of a technical error as it launced two new sites…
What a shocker
Monday, 18 July 2005, 11:31
The Netherlands have defended their European baseball championship, beating Italy 15-0 in the final in Prague. The Dutch are the dominant in Europe, having now won won 19 of the 29 championships since 1954. Italy is Europe’s second power, having won eight.
Spain and Germany finished third and fourth, and have therefore qualified for the 2007 World Cup.
Great Britain finished seventh. The team must be on a bit of a downer since their hopes host nation qualification for the 2012 Olympics were scuppered by the IOC chosing not to include baseball in the programme for the London games.
Another interesting outcome was the ninth-place finish of Greece. It was their first major tournament since the country cobbled together its Olympic baseball teams from north Americans hastily given Greek passports. In the 2003 European Championships, Greece was represented for the first time ever, and the team of professional ringers went all the way to the final before being stopped by — who else — the Dutch.
This concludes my periodic unhealthy obsession with a European minority sport — at least until the 2005 World Cup begins in Amsterdam in September.
