by David Burns | Jun 18, 2021 | Featured Clubs/Ballparks, Uncategorized
Film Date: June 11, 2021 Home Team: Heidenheim Heideköpfe Visiting Team: Stuttgart Red League: Germany Bundesliga Former/Current Baseball Jobs Overseas imports: Gary Owens, Logan Grigsby, RJ Hively, Aaron Dunsmore, Mitch Nilsson, Terrell Joyce, Fernando Escarra Watch...
by David Burns | Feb 13, 2021 | Blog, Written Stories
February 14th, 2021 By Carter Cromwell Will Swindling’s baseball career hasn’t gone as he originally envisioned, but he never envisioned how it has gone. A star on his youth teams and an all-state performer in high school in Eugene, Ore., he attracted attention from...
by David Burns | Jan 12, 2021 | Blog, Written Stories
January 12, 2021 By Carter Cromwell On the surface, baseball is pretty much the same game wherever it’s played. But where it’s played is often a whole new ballgame. And therein lies the challenge for the players, coaches and others who go outside their home...
by David Burns | Nov 25, 2020 | Written Stories
November 20, 2020 Carter Cromwell Sam Belisle-Springer’s path to professional baseball was not a traditional one. After wrapping up a Canadian college baseball career, the french-Canadian pitcher set his sights on baseball overseas. This landed him in Argentina...
by David Burns | Nov 17, 2020 | Written Stories
November 17, 2020 By Carter Cromwell As the 1990s began, baseball was pretty much nothing in Attnang, Austria. Then Yurek Korzeniowski and a few friends showed up and started to make it something. Nearly three decades later, the Attnang Athletics club has a loyal fan...
by David Burns | Oct 13, 2020 | Blog, Written Stories
October 13, 2020 By Carter Cromwell A glance at Mark Weidemaier’s baseball resume makes it clear that he’s seen a lot. A closer inspection might remind one of an old country/western song titled “I’ve Been Everywhere”. Well, maybe not everywhere, but a lot of...
by David Burns | Oct 12, 2020 | Globetrotters
The Attnang Athletics (11-7) host the Dornbirn Indians (11-4) in their final two games of a home and away series to end the shortened 2020 season. The teams are battling for 1st in the Baseball League Austria West Division and Attnang has to sweep in order to have a...
by David Burns | Sep 29, 2020 | Advice for Members
Okay… your profile is live… now what? The following is a step-by-step guide to making the most of this opportunity, starting with best positioning yourself to hopefully receive multiple offers and ending with a detailed contract so that you can set...
by David Burns | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Written Stories
September 14, 2020 By Carter Cromwell Tom Signore represents a case study supporting the old line about a person never knowing what’s around the next corner in life. Not long ago, he turned a corner that led him from upstate New York to Taiwan. Signore coached at the...
by David Burns | Aug 24, 2020 | Written Stories
August 24, 2020 By Carter Cromwell It’s a pretty good bet that most non-Europeans aren’t familiar with the city of Regensburg. It’s an even better bet that most baseball followers don’t know about it. To the average fan, the terms “Regensburg” and “baseball” don’t...
by David Burns | May 30, 2020 | Written Stories
May 20, 2020 By Carter Cromwell To the Jeopardy answer “hotbed of baseball”, one might offer the question “What is Japan?” Or “. . . The Dominican Republic?” Or “. . . St. Louis?” Or various other places around the world. It’s highly doubtful that any contestant...
by David Burns | May 10, 2020 | Blog, Written Stories
May 10, 2020 Written by Carter Cromwell Arik Sikula was done with baseball. Then he wasn’t. For that, he can thank a chance meeting and Baseball Jobs Overseas. At 27, with six minor-league seasons and nine stops on his resume, the former Toronto Blue Jays farmhand...
by David Burns | Apr 4, 2020 | Blog, Globetrotters
Former UC Davis infielder, Ryan Hooper, took his career overseas first to Australia for the winter after he graduated and then to Europe to play in Switzerland the following summer. In Switzerland, he played alongside fellow Baseball Jobs Overseas member, Harry...
by David Burns | Mar 16, 2020 | Advice for Members, Blog
David Burns and Jimmy Jensen from Baseball Jobs Overseas discuss how to position yourself for success in receiving offers from clubs overseas and once signed, how to make the most of that opportunity to further your career. This episode is particularly beneficial to...
by David Burns | Mar 10, 2020 | Globetrotters
Patrick and Evyn were two of three BBJO imports who signed on to play with the Wesseling Vermins in the 2019 German Bundesliga season. It was the first season that the Vermins played in the first division and although suffering some pretty tough losses, Patrick, Evyn...
by David Burns | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured Clubs/Ballparks, Uncategorized
The Dornbirn Indians had their name put on the international baseball map for all the wrong reasons when this photo went viral way back in the early 2000’s. Basically, at the time and for many years prior, their baseball field doubled as a parking lot for...
by David Burns | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured Clubs/Ballparks
Home to the Regensburg Regionaere of the German Bundesliga South, the Armin-Wolf-Arena is one of the top baseball stadiums in Europe and is home to a baseball academy with on-site boarding facilities called Sportinternat Regensburg. Photo credit: Walter Keller Video...
by David Burns | Feb 26, 2020 | Written Stories
Written by: Justin Gil, BBJO member My poor girlfriend, she’s probably tired of being reminded that I can’t believe I’m at this point right now. She’s probably annoyed with me occasionally muttering to myself, “ Who would have thought I’d be doing this?” I’m still...
by David Burns | Jul 30, 2019 | Globetrotters
In his first stint overseas, former UC Davis team captain Ryan Hooper gives us a real look into living on the Gold Coast of Australia while playing winter ball. In the second half of this episode, we revisit with a familiar Globetrotters face in New Zealand, this time...
by David Burns | Jul 17, 2019 | Featured Clubs/Ballparks
Team photo above by: Robert Bos The Honkbal Hoofdklasse is the highest level of baseball in the Netherlands and is one of two professional leagues in Europe. On the second part of this European baseball trip to the Netherlands (see video below), I stop in to visit the...