Photo Series Promotes European Baseball Fields

Inspired by other sites, John Miller and Mister-Baseball.com is starting a new series encouraging Baseball clubs and fans throughout Europe to send information and pictures of their ballparks. They are going to be featured on the web site. Visit their site for further details.

Winter Clinic Season Ends Successfully

Another great year of ISG clinics recently concluded. Beginning with the European Baseball Coaches Association Convention in Brussels in November, ISG conducted eight clinics throughout Europe in 2009/2010 in cooperation with national baseball federations. The longest running clinic in Europe, the Europe Coach Clinic in Rotterdam, hosted by the KNBSV, celebrated its 23rd birthday in December. ISG also returned to Poland and Ireland after brief absences in those countries. Germany, Italy, Spain and Croatia hosted coaching clinics in January. Several new sponsors - including CEB and IBAF - have joined the ISG team and have become partners in furthering ISG's goal of improving coaching world wide.

As in the past, the best American, European and College coaches were featured at ISG clinics. Former MLB managers worked at the first two clinics: Jim Lefebvre, who managed in Seattle, Milwaukee, and Chicago and is one of the most prominent hitting instructors in the game, will spoke in Brussels while Terry Collins, who managed the Astros and the Angels highlighted the Netherlands Clinic.

The next clinic season (November, 2010) will be a milestone year marking ISG's 25th year. Plans are already in the works and will be announced soon.

Questions regarding clinics may be directed to Tom O'Connell at oconnetj@hotmail.com.