Little Toy Robot

It has been something of a joke that baseball’s “World Series” is really just a North American affair. The players may be coming from all over, but 29 out of 30 Major League teams are based in the U.S., and the one international entry is in exotic, faraway… Toronto.

So there has been talk for a while of a real soccer-style baseball World Cup. Now it looks as if there could really be one, called the “World Baseball Classic.”

Elsewhere, the news that Rickey “Peter Pan” Henderson has joined a Minor League team (the San Diego Surf Dawgs… I’m not making that up) in a new independent league in California and Arizona led me to the league’s Web site. Turns out that there will be a team called the Japan Samurai Bears featuring players from Japan (duh) that will play every game as the away team in America. You’d think the team could have a little more fun with their logo, but it’s an interesting experiment anyway.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 at 9:05 am and is filed under baseball.