By Carter Cromwell April 25th, 2022 From very early on, Gary Owens had a vision – he knew he wanted to be a baseball player. But he couldn’t envision then how far the game could and would take him. At the time, his vision extended only to the boundaries of his...
Seattle University alumna, Lisa Maulden, first took her career overseas in 2015 and never looked back. Her first few seasons overseas were in lower leagues including the Belgian second division and Hungarian Softball League before moving up the ranks to higher-level...
November 16th, 2021 By Carter Cromwell When Billy Germaine was released from his independent league team in the summer of 2017, it seemed to represent a dead end for his baseball career. Instead, it was just a detour. And no small one, as it turned out. The new path...
June 15th, 2021 By Carter Cromwell [NOTE: Alyson Spinas-Valainis is non-binary, meaning they do not specifically identify with either gender. Therefore, the following article employs the pronouns “they” and “them” in reference to Spinas-Valainis.] That Alyson...
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...
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...
January 11, 2021 Written by Arik Sikula Major League Baseball recently made an announcement that significantly affects minor league baseball and all those associated with it. The “One Baseball” plan will cut the number of baseball cities, stadiums, and workers that...
December 20, 2020 By Carter Cromwell One thing you can say about Zdenek Zidek . . . He’s not afraid of a challenge. Zidek is a practicing defense attorney in his hometown of Prague in the Czech Republic — That’s, you know, on another continent across a really...
From their favorite public office in Salzburg, Austria, David Burns and Jimmy Jensen of Baseball Jobs Overseas outline their top five tips for baseball players without professional experience who are looking to take their careers overseas, primarily to Europe,...
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...
November 10, 2020 By Carter Cromwell When it came to baseball, Donald Lutz was a late bloomer but a fast learner. His is the unlikely story of a guy who didn’t pick up a ball or bat until the advanced age of 14, but was playing professionally in the U.S. by 19 and in...
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...
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...
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...
September 29, 2020 By Carter Cromwell During the last decade or so, Owen Reid has traveled to five continents and approximately 50 countries because of baseball. During the last several months, he’s been to none. Thank you, Covid-19 pandemic. Like everyone, Reid has...
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...
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...
July 21, 2020 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....
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...
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...
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