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Busy weekend for the Sleepwalkers. Three games and a team BBQ! On Saturday May 13 the NBIII team traveled to Nemesvamos to play the undefeated Tigers. As we took the field to do our warmup after a 2 hour drive the rain started to pour down with wind gusts up to 25kph. Things could only…
May 6, 2017: Sleepwalkers Minors traveled to Erd and won a ‘nail-biter’ in 6 innings to bring their record to 1-1 for the season. They went into the last half with an 11-6 lead but the Èrd Cardinals put across 3 quick runs on 3 singles and a double. Our experienced infield shut the door…
Sunday April 30: Opening day for the Sleepwalkers NBIII team vs the Èrd Pioneers. 24-14 WIN! Èrd is one of the largest (with 125 players & 6 teams) and most organized of all the clubs in Hungary plus they were playing with 2 of their Division 1 players in the lineup (albeit playing out of…
IMG_7503.MOV Saturday April 29: In their first game of the 2017 campaign the Sleepwalker Minors traveled to Hatvan to play the 1-1 Hatvan Hunters. They managed to hold onto a lead till the 4th inning when a few defensive errors led to the Hunters putting several runs on the board including a grand-slam home run…
First it was the NHL where prior to the 1970’s about 90% of the players were from North America; now only 50%; then the NBA in the 1980’s going from 98% North American to now with close to 30% coming from other countries. Maybe Baseball is next? …..if we can just convince a few more…
Kedves Sporttársak! Sokan értesültetek már róla, hogy a Szövetség idén ünnepli fennállásának 25. évfordulóját. Ez alkalomból olyan rendezvényt szervezünk Nektek/magunknak és mindenkinek, aki az elmúlt 25 évben megfordult köreinkben, ahol minden a baseballról, a softballról és a szórakozásról szól. A legfontosabb tudnivalók: Helyszín: Óbudai Baseball Aréna Dátum: …
Our 2nd ‘friendly’ with the Crossroads Angels showed dramatic improvement over the first game where everyone was getting used to new positions and shaking off the winter rust. Lots of new players and a couple returning players after taking last season off (Krisztian at Catcher, Adam at 2B). Our first year players showed more confidence…
Why did baseball become so popular in the United States and eventually earn the name: “America’s Great Pastime”? There are a lot of answers to that but perhaps the easiest way to explain it is that it may only take an afternoon to learn to play the game but it can take a lifetime to…
