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
After a Career-Ending Accident on the Field, this Former AAA Pitching Coach got a Fresh Start in Taiwan
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 college level for...
Regensburg Legionaere; Europe’s Baseball Oasis
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 link up. But, in...
Clayton Carson’s Baseball Path Leads To Settling In Austria
By Carter Cromwell Like many ballplayers and coaches, Clayton Carson’s story reads more like an odyssey – moving from place to place to place with usually no idea of where the next place will be. But it appears his days as a baseball nomad may be over. At 37, he’s...
IBC E82: 7 Year MLB vet, Josh Collmenter, on his career and experience with the Auckland Tuatara
Best known for his unique Tomahawk delivery, former MLB pitcher and Baseball Jobs Overseas member Josh Collmenter talks about his baseball career starting from his childhood, through college, leading to his MLB debut and then overseas to New Zealand. We talk about who...
FREE EBOOK: The Grip – Youth Pitching Guide
The Grip is written by Dustin Hamilton, a left-handed pitcher from Castle Rock, Washington and former player Central Washington University who played overseas in Australia and Europe from 2015 to 2017. This eBook is a great tool for youth coaches who could use...
This Globetrottin’ Risk-Taker Built Two Baseball Programs from Scratch Overseas
By Carter Cromwell One thing about Ryan Flynn – he’s not afraid to roll the dice. Like when he took off for London after graduating from college. Like when he was 22 and took a job interview via telephone while walking out of the Woodstock ’94 music festival. He got...
IBC Podcast E81: A summer overseas turns into 20 years and counting
After the summer of 2000 playing baseball in Vienna, Austria, Canadian baseball player Nick DeForest decided to forgo his final two years of college baseball eligibility and make Vienna his home. Twenty years later, Nick sits down to tell his story on the IBC podcast...
This Town of 1200 Fields One of Germany’s Top Northern Division Teams
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 would come up...
After ‘Hanging Them Up’, Former Blue Jay Arik Sikula Rediscovered His Love For The Game Overseas
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 had been...