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 wheres. His baseball...
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 had to adjust to...
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...
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...
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...
“Chasing summer” is a term used by a lot of our members who travel the world playing (and coaching) baseball or softball annually. The majority will play in Europe in the summer and in Australia or New Zealand in the winter. Below are a couple of related...
Written by: Justin Gil, BBJO member My poor girlfriend, she’s probably tired of being reminded that I can’t believe I’m at this point right now. She’s probably annoyed with me occasionally muttering to myself, “ Who would have thought I’d be doing this?” I’m still...
Both Paul Kirkpatrick and Ben Andrews were born in England but grew up in the United States. Paul, a pitcher, played for Western Kentucky University and Ben, a third baseman, for Linfield College. Paul made his debut for Great Britain at the WBC qualifier in 2016...
Here is a look back at Prague Baseball Week 2019, which was a blast once again for Baseball Jobs Overseas members who came out for the week of baseball and off-the-field shenanigans in the beautiful city of Prague! Thanks again to Boomer Prinstein and his...
With a BBJO record 101 signings to play in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa for the 2018-19 season, it is no surprise that a major impact was made on the baseball world in the southern hemisphere. Now that the dust has settled on the season, there seemed to be...
If you can find your way to Attnang-Puchheim, Austria from June 7th-10th 2019, mark that weekend off in your calendar as “busy” and prepare yourself for the most epic weekend of baseball, softball and party. Finkstonball is the longest standing invitational baseball...
The International Stars, in cooperation with Baseball Jobs Overseas, assembled the 2018 version of the 3n2 International Stars which featured professional baseball players that were playing around Europe in 2018, 28 of which were BBJO members. Watch this video on...
The newest member of the Baseball Jobs Overseas database looking to take his career overseas, Mark Weidemaier, agreed to sit down with BBJO and share his knowledge and experience gained over the course of 30+ years in professional baseball, highlighted by two years...
Former MLB pitcher Josh Collmenter became an official member of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website on February 19, 2018, after he elected for free agency four months earlier following a 2017 season which started well with the Atlanta Braves but eventually saw him...
In 2018 we had a total of 16 members sign in France spread throughout three divisions, including 15 players and one coach. This brings our total number of members signings in France to date to 69. Some of them are new members to the website and some are previous...
The first round of the Czech Extraliga season saw the 10 team league face-off against each other 3 times for a total of 27 games. Once again when the dust settled a familiar name was at the top of the standings in Draci Brno with a ridiculous record of 26-1 (see first...
The Austrian regular season came to an end August 15th with many of our members making a major impact thus far. Here is a summary. Baseball League Austria Standings (D1) BBJO Members Stats Report Pitchers Player Team IP ERA W-L SO BB...
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...
Accounting for both players and coaches in baseball as well as women’s fastpitch softball, as of December 31st, 2018, members of our website have signed over 900 baseball and softball contracts encompassing 26 different countries. Many of these members alternate...
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...
A former import player myself, I started this website in late 2012 to help others do the same.
As a father of two, I am grounded (in Austria) and use this blog to live vicariously through our members. I hope you enjoy their adventures and stories as well.
