On the weekend,Mornington Peninsula teenager Genevieve Beacom made history when she became the first woman to pitch and play in the Australian Baseball League.
Victoria’s lockdown has thrown a spanner in the works of the late stages of the Australian Baseball League season,but the cards have unexpectedly fallen in favour of Perth Heat.
Brisbane’s lockdown last week threw the Australian Baseball League fixtures into chaos and sent the Perth Heat to Adelaide,where they now face eight matches in seven days in an already-disrupted season.
Baseball megastar Manny Ramirez is heading home to the US without having played a game for the Sydney Blue Sox,but insisted drugs were not a factor in his sudden departure.
Local product Warwick Saupold will star in the belated opener to Perth Heat’s Australian Baseball League season in Melbourne on Thursday.
He’s 48 and battling injury - but even if Sydney Blue Sox recruit Manny Ramirez never makes it onto the field,his impact on the Australian Baseball League is already being felt.
COVID-19 has interrupted Perth Heat’s start to the Australian Baseball League season,but not before the club’s new recruit arrived in WA from America.
Rachel Balkovec was once told by a Major League franchise she would not be hired because she was female. So she changed her name on her CV to “Rae”.
Having heard so many good things about Australian baseball,Californian relief pitcher Nate Gercken couldn’t help but want to get back to the place where he returned to the sport for the first time in a year.
One of the biggest stars in US baseball history is out of hotel quarantine and ready to be the new face of the Australian Baseball League.
One of the most powerful batters and most iconic players to ever grace Major League Baseball will be playing in Australia this season.