Down to  its final  strike, Cuba’s Frederich Cepeda Cruz  (pictured above) hit a game tying  home run over the left field fence to send its opening game with Australia into  extra innings.  Osmani Urrutia  followed in the 12th with another big fly to give Cuba a  narrow 3-2 victory.
In other action Jeff Karstens, who [...]

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After a few delays the official IBAF site for the 37th World Cup is up and running. When you go to the site you’ll  see  summaries of the recent Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese series’  written by your  East Windup Chronicle hosts Aaron Shinsano  and Jackson Broder.
The site itself looks roughly 2,000 times better than [...]

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Team Canada will kick off  its quest for the  IBAF World Cup tonight in a matchup with the Korean team. Its roster is filled mostly with MLB Class-A and AA players.  Put them in the second tier of teams, along with a very young Japanese  squad and the Koreans.  Canada could  very well challenge.
Team [...]

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This came out earlier in the year but it just finally made its way to my ears.  Boris  has always been a little heavy for my tastes (although “Rainbow” has me hmmm-ing), but Japanese psyche masters Ghost have always been a pet band for me. I’ve seen them  several times over  the years, usually [...]

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Saturday evening’s contest between the Bucks and Bulls was the first nationally televised game featuring Yi in China and it brought in very slick 100 million viewers. (story via The Bratwurst)
The Rockets game featuring Yao was relegated to regional markets and after their respective games Yao went on record saying he thinks Yi has [...]

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Catcher Chen Feng-Ming, the official CBPL player of the EWC, was awarded the league’s gold glove award for the second consecutive year. Congrats to Chen, whose stellar defense behind the plate mitigated an, er, less than stellar .206 batting average. A full list of the 2007 CPBL award winners can be seen at the always [...]

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