The International Baseball Community Blog
The main goal of our blog is to showcase our members overseas while also informing others what playing and coaching baseball and softball overseas is all about. We utilize our Youtube channel, Podcast and traditional written stories to bring this wonderful global game to your smart phones in a variety of forms.
You can also follow our latest blog posts on Facebook and with photos and video clips of our members around the world on our Instgram.
Latest posts
BBJO’s Top 20 Pitchers Overseas, 2019 Baseball Season
At the end of every season overseas we like to recognize our members who were playing around the globe for their performance on the field. For this top pitchers ranking, we take a look at the 2019 summer season where most BBJO members were in Europe. In order to...
Going global: how to make a true World Cup of baseball
Article contributed by Matt from Lift Your Game. If you ask people what they think the single biggest global sport has been for the last 50 years, most are going to say soccer. Soccer hosts the most successful World Cup-style tournament in professional sport. Each...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Signing with a Club Overseas
Okay... your profile is live and 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 yourself up...
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The "Ambassador of the Game" giveaway is part of an effort by Baseball Jobs Overseas to promote the embodiment of what an import player should be to their new club, given the fact that they have been presented with an amazing opportunity to represent the game...
Globetrotters – Season 5, Episode 3 “Beach Bums”
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...
European Baseball Road Trip: Curaçao Neptunus
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...
European Baseball Road Trip: Hoofddorp Pioniers
By Baseball Jobs Overseas Founder David Burns I hit the road once again to visit BBJO members along with their clubs, documenting my trip on video, and this time it was a trip to the Netherlands. My first stop was in Hoofddorp to visit the Hoofddorp Pioniers and the...
European Baseball Documentary: Attnang Athletics
In 1991 the Attnang Athletics were founded when a local Croatian immigrant who had spent his youth playing baseball in South America and Australia recruited a group of local teens from the small town of approximately 8,000 to form the first baseball team in Attnang....
IBC E75: How to get your foot in the door overseas with an average baseball or softball background
There are a large number of baseball players overseas these days looking to take their career overseas with a large variety of backgrounds. Those who may not have the strongest of backgrounds or the strongest of stats, may have to take matters into their own hands to...