British Baseball Podcast

"You're playing against the game of Baseball..."  A very special series of interviews kicks off with the GB u18s Skipper Jonathan Rodriguez, Captain Max Manoff and player Tucker Stockman as they chat about the on field fun and share off field stories surrounding the 2022 European Qualifiers in Sweden, waiting 2 years to play, Getting their Mitochondria right (GYMR), energy and mindset, how forming teams in the British Baseball Federations top league, the NBL, has helped them as a squad, staying focused when winning big, guards of honour and forming friendships with the u18 Turkish team, getting defeated by Sweden, hit by pitch fun and clearing a water logged field with Poland PLUS MORE!   if you can support this independent podcast, please head to patron.com/britbaseballpod and spread the love.

the newly appointed Head of Performance for Great Britain Baseball joins the show to talk about his background in Olympic Performance and his route to Gb Baseball, his interesting career path so far, trying and failing at retirement, the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games and Russias interference, "Getting Stuck in" with up skilling and up scaling a sport to make it Olympic ready, his goals and much much more.

Big thanks to Chris Knoblock at BSUK for arranging this interview for me.

Manchester Baseballs Dave Gould joins the show to talk about 25 years in the sport. He tells us how he got into the game, finding Manchester Baseball Club, playing with his sons, his MBC all time 9, his baseball cap collection and much more

Great Britain U23 Pitcher Iain Isdales (@isdale17) the show to talk about his GB debut in Verona in 2021 in the U23 European Championships, playing at the university of Northern Colorado and his tips for players trying to get into college ball in the states, mentoring new players and kids at camp, his Scottish and Welsh roots and the support he gets from the GB Community, who is on his mount Rushmore of Baseball and why PLUS lots more!

Dad jokes a plenty with GB National Team player and London Met's Fred Mosier! we also chat about his baseball beginnings playing in Russia, joining the London Mets and the impact of Liam Carroll and Eric Hansen, Laura Hirai striking out the Italians, fake moustaches and real moustaches, Gb baseball memories, the 2021 European Championships for the U23 and his Senior call up, his NBL debut plus who makes his GB baseball Mount Rushmore? And much more.

Former Great Britain pitcher Alex Smith joins the pod to talk about his decade long adventure in the national team program starting in 2001 and highlights of major tournaments including being a top SP in the 2005 euros, Limiting Puerto Rico to 5 runs in the 2009 Baseball World Cup and getting the W over Israel in the 2011 European Qualifier.  We also chat about books, playing in Sweden and Holland, pitching 18 innings and 12 coffees, "Room 3 Baby!" and getting kicked out of the Dutch League

"I started rehab late June and I did whatever it take to be back...it was a miracle that I caught the last game of the AA season"  Bournemouth Bears Head Coach Jose Lopez joins the show to talk to us about: 

* his journey to the Houston Astros organisation 

* the ups and downs of being in the Minor League system 

* overcoming fear in AAA 

* having a stroke and dealing with the aftermath of a brain injury 

* 2 weeks in Bournemouth put him off traveling the rest of Europe 

* passing on his knowledge to kids in the Elite Academy 

* resurrecting the Bournemouth Bears in 2017 

* his time with the GB Women's National Team  and much more.  

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Norwich Icini Chairman Tom Thornhill has had an idea:

do you want to grow your club?

do you want your players to get better?

worried that players are going to leave the team as they cannot commit to a full Sunday away for the game they love?

do you want to have all your players playing and developing whilst reducing numbers of players sat on benches?

if you've answered "Yes" to any of these, give this a listen, Tom explains how he and Norwich Baseball Club created a fall league of all their players split into teams to play shortened versions of the games with amended rules that has grown participation and revenue at the club...

and it works, so they're doing it again in season!

if you want to message Tom with how this can work for your team, here's how you can reach him - https://www.facebook.com/norwichbaseball/

the 2021 BSUK Volunteer of the year, Al Binns joins thew show to tell us how a joke at a 5 a side football game lead to him falling in love with Baseball, how a new Newcastle Nighthawks team beat the odds, building team spirit over service station breakfasts, playing for Long Eaton Storm and now the Wragby Warhammer's (and their massive fan turn outs on game day), how he became the BSUK Volunteer of the Year, plus more.

Artist Andy brown has been busy since his last appearance on the show and the man himself is back to tell us all about it.

From the European Championships with the Gb National team and having a lot of access to players to painting stadiums, players and the country in the Dominican Republic, Andy shares it with us.

From Pitching in carparks in Italy to seeing unbelievable wealth and poverty side by side in the DR, listen in for all the stories. http://andybrownstadiums.com/product/happy-and-glorious/