Monday, June 20, 2011

Best of European Baseball


It’s no secret, I like to make lists. Sometimes when I’m on the toilet I make a list of my favorite girls from my travels. At night I will make a list about things to do or to get the next day or week. After my release from Hamburg, and reflecting on my 5 years of European Baseball, I decided to make a comprehensive list of my European baseball experiences on a recent train ride to from Hamburg to Munich: (I'll try to keep the offensiveness to a minimal)


1. Best Place to Play Home Games: Almere 2009

2. Worst Place to Play Home Games: Hoboken Pioneers 2007

3. Best Field: Kinheim Haarlem in 2010

4. Best Mound to pitch from: Amsterdam Pirates 2010

5. Worst Field: TIE – 2007 Kibbutz Gezer in Israel, 2008 Jeka in Breda Netherlands, and 2011 Dohren Germany

6. Best Crowd: Tie – 2007 Israel Baseball League All Star Game and 2009 Promotion Series between Almere and RCH (see above)

7. Most Difficult Opponent: DOOR Neptunus 2010

8. Favorite Opponent to Pitch against: ADO 2010 and Amsterdam Pirates 2010

9. Best team I played on: Almere 2009

10. Worst team I played on: Hamburg 2011

11. Favorite Teammates:

2007: Sam Faeder/Ty Eriksen – Netanya Tigers

2007: Alain Lambeau – Hoboken Pioneers

2008: Remy Jamanika – Tex Town Tigers

2009: Joey Berkenbosh – Almere

2010: Mitch Graham – Almere

2011: Max Warren – HSV Stealers

12. Worst Teammate:

2007: CF – Netanya Tigers

2007: C/1B – Hoboken Pioneers

2008: 1B – Tex Town Tigers

2009: back up 3B – Almere

2010: relief pitcher from RCH/infielder from RCH – Almere

2011: starting pitcher - HSV

13. Best Player on my team:

2007: Hector De Los Santos / SS – Netanya Tigers

2008: Ono Barske / 3B & Mikkel Oosterveld / SS – Tex Town Tigers

2009: Rhiency Imperator / SS – Almere

2010: Mitch Graham / SS – Almere

2011: Brehan Murphy / 3B – HSV Stealers

14. Worst Players on my team:

2007: Rhyijo/Eichenstein – Netanaya

2008: Thierry – Tex Town

2009: Jerry – Almere

2010: Daan – Almere

2011: Mirko – HSV

15. Best Opposing Player:

2007: Jason Rees – Bet Shamesh Blue Sox

2008: Linoy Croes – Alcmaria & Rhiency Imperator – Robur

2009: Cameron Wheeler and Derek Tarapecki – UVV

2010: Bryan Engelhardt – Kinheim

2011: Chris Beck - Solingen

16. Best Coach: Stanely Kock, Tex Town Tigers – 2008

17. Worst Coach: Marco, Almere 2010/Jens, HSV 2011

18. Best Management: Bart Zijderveld, Almere 2009

19. Worst Management: Erwin, Hoboken 2007

20. Best Uniforms: Almere 2010

21. Worst Uniforms: Hoboken 2007

22. Best house to live in: TTT 2008

23. Worst house to live in: Almere 2009 – upstairs in student house / HSV 2011 – GM’s basement

24. Best City to live in: Tel Aviv – 2007

25. Worst City to live in: Hamburg suburbs - 2011

26. Best Overall Experience: Almere 2009

27. Worst Overall Experience: Hamburg 2011


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