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.
Some of our posts are more content focused with the goal of providing tips or suggestions to both the club and the import player or coach.
To catch our latest blog posts and highlights of members overseas, you can follow us through social media.
Baseball overseas is a better option for pro’s than you may think
The two most common misconceptions about playing baseball professionally overseas is that the baseball is not good and once you go overseas you can forget about playing pro ball in the U.S.. I can understand why people feel that both of these are true, but from a...
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Globetrotters – Season 3, Episode 3 “Don’t feed the fish!”
In this all-Australian episode, Vicky McFarland performs a dangerous stunt, is attacked by a swarm of fish and is stranded in the Australian Outback. We also introduce AJ Cipolla while he takes us inside his Instagram Aussie baseball stories including a team bingo...
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European Baseball eBook: Part 1
In this first part, we dive into the complex beast which is European baseball and the various levels of play which offer paid opportunities for the professional baseball player or coach. In this first part, you will learn about countries rankings, schedules, levels of...
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Globetrotters – Season 3, Episode 2 “Double dose of magpie”
In this all-softball episode we follow one of our members, Lisa Maulden (now our Softball Recruitment Manager) on her journey from summer ball in Europe to winer ball in New Zealand. After that we visit another one of our members, Vicky McFarland, who is lighting up...
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Professional women’s fastpitch softball overseas is a thing now for college grads
In the late fall of 2017, Lisa Maulden finished a 27 hour journey from Budapest, Hungary to Auckland New Zealand to begin her 5th season playing professional fastpitch softball overseas with the Western Magpies of the Auckland Premier League. "Thankfully I only have...
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Globetrotters – Season 3, Episode 1 “The Global Game”
In this episode we visit three IBC members playing in South Africa, Jaz Shergill along with couple Chelsea Cohen and Tyler Krobetzky, all of whom are with the same club. Chelsea is playing in her 7th season overseas and met Tyler while playing in Adelaide, Australia....
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Literally travel the world playing baseball or fastpitch softball without spending a dime
Jimmy Jensen in Australia Accounting for both players and coaches in baseball as well as women's fastpitch softball, as of February 1st, 2018, members of our website have signed over 700 baseball and softball contracts encompassing 25 different countries. Many of...
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Video Contest: Video of adventures from our members overseas, the entries are in!
In an effort to showcase the lifestyle of our members playing or coaching abroad, we are assembling a promo video and we want to feature our members of the International Baseball Community website, past and present. In return for helping us out, we are offering prizes...
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What opportunities are there to play baseball professionally overseas? Guaranteed there are more than you realize….
There are plenty of opportunities to play professional baseball overseas for both the established and aspiring professional baseball player. Every year overseas is an option year-round for hundreds of players to continue their baseball career including those: in the...
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