When Gretchen Aucoin was hired as minor-league player development coach by the New York Mets in January – thereby becoming the Mets’ first female on-field coach – it might have seemed the culmination of a long-held goal steadily worked toward over time. But it...
By Carter Cromwell April 5th, 2022 When Logan Moreland went to New Zealand in late 2019 to play softball, it was to be for just one season – get in, get out, go home. Pretty simple. Then Covid-19 happened, and things weren’t so clear-cut. Suddenly, the short-term...
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...
January 20, 2022 By Carter Cromwell Given that her father played baseball and her mother was a member of the 2000 Italian Olympic softball team, one could easily assume that Erika Piancastelli’s path to softball stardom was pre-ordained – mapped out early on and...
Lindsay and Nicole Thomas took their twin pitcher-catcher act overseas in 2017, one year after graduating from UNC Greensboro where they were both standout players. A year into NCAA D1 coaching careers, both girls made the decision to put their coaching careers on...
August 20, 2021 By Carter Cromwell Right off the bat, Chelsea Goodacre realized that playing softball in Japan was going to be different. “The first practices were real eye-openers,” said the former all-American from the University of Arizona, who is a catcher...
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...
March 21st, 2021 By Carter Cromwell That Lisa Maulden is an American playing softball overseas isn’t particularly unusual, but her path to this point has been. “My softball journey has been very non-linear,” she acknowledges. Indeed, her road from growing up near...
This time up, we are taking a look at the top women’s softball performers that were playing across Europe this past summer. Unfortunately, some leagues did not publish stats, including the Austrian Softball League where five of our members played. Qualifying...
The pitcher-catcher softball duo from Kansas is back for their second Globetrotters episode and their second straight season playing winter ball in Christchurch, New Zealand. The BBJO pair started their overseas career off in the Czech Republic before focusing on two...
Once again it is time to recognize the members of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website who were playing around the globe during the 2018-19 winter. This time up, we are taking a look at the women that were overseas this past winter. Unfortunately, a number of our...
Once again it is time to recognize the members of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website who were playing around the globe during the 2018 summer. This time up, we are taking a look at the women that were overseas this past summer. The following recognitions are based on...
Once again it is time to recognize the members of the Baseball Jobs Overseas website who were playing around the globe during the 2017-18 winter. This time up, we are taking a look at the women that were overseas this past winter. The following recognitions are based...
Best friends Paige Crawford and Allyne Clark have been traveling the globe as a pitcher-catcher combo since graduating in 2017. This is a glimpse into their season playing in New Zealand. Watch this video on YouTube ...
First African MLB player Gift Ngoepe drops in to support IBC members Chelsea Cohen, Tyler Krobetzky and Jaz Shergill at baseball and softball camps for unprivileged children outside of Cape Town, South Africa. We then head over to New Zealand to check in on five IBC...
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...
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...
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...
Due to increased signings of softball players in Europe through our website, for the first time we have put together rankings to recognize our top performers. For the following rankings, we used our knowledge of the various levels of play across Europe to best put a...
We are off to the beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, one of Europe’s most visiting cities to visit Lisa Maulden and Braden Lee, both IBC members who spent the 2017 season with the Budapest Reds Baseball and Softball Club. We then check in on Chad Scheilz and...
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