Illinois Baseball Report

Happy New Year everybody!  It’s nice to go into 2012 knowing that our team is the reigning Big Ten co-champions AND the Big Ten Tournament Champions.  That’s gotta carry some weight and I’m sure help in terms of confidence.  With our new, improved schedule (i.e. tougher) for 2012, we’ll be reaching for higher goals, I’m [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 2nd, 2012 | Leave a Comment! »

The Baseball Cube which tracks MLB and Minor League stats, updated their site so that the University of Illinois Fighting Illini have their own page.  In the past, the Cube has done ok as far as posting college stats when they can but this is the first time I’ve seen a page devoted to college [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on December 17th, 2011 | Leave a Comment! »

A quick note:  Brian over at The College Baseball Blog is interviewing college baseball coaches around the nation and recently he got around to quizzing our own Coach Hartleb.  It’s a good read. Share Tags: blog, coach hartleb, interview Related posts Hartleb gets some on-air time before the Hot Stove Banquet (0) Something new to [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 30th, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

A quick note with a slight bittersweet tint…  Big Ten Hardball, the blog that incessantly covered Big Ten Baseball news, issues, and analysis, is closing its virtual doors.  Brian DeCaussin who maintained BTH, is calling it quits after five incredible years. Those of you who are parents of players most likely know of Brian and [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 22nd, 2010 | Leave a Comment! »

To start the new year, I thought I’d throw out some helpful links that might be useful in getting news and information on Illinois Baseball and Big Ten Baseball this year.  So bookmark the ones you find interesting or useful.  They may come in handy down the road during the 2010 baseball season. It’s a [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on January 9th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There’s a new blog out there covering Big Ten Baseball aptly named Big Ten Baseball Blog.  It’s run by Daniel Pavlue who hails from Minnnesota and attends Gopher games.  He promises he’ll be balanced in his coverage though.  One reason I like it:  a photo of Joe Bonadonna sliding into home is currently his header [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on May 7th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

This week, we’re going to have a special edition of the weekend series preview.  The editor of Behind the Plate, an Indiana Baseball blog, suggested that we both do a Q & A interview for each other’s blogs as an exciting preview for the upcoming Indiana-Illinois series.  I thought it was an excellent idea so [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites, Game Previews on April 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Zealot friend Brian D from Big Ten Hardball does his annual review of Big Ten baseball team and predicts Illinois to at least make the tournament in 2009.  Brian’s bottom line?? Illinois will go as far as their pitching lets them. This team, like many of the recent Illini squads, should swing the bats well [...]

Filed under: Analysis, Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on February 15th, 2009 | Leave a Comment! »

Zealot friend Brian DeCaussin from the excellent site Big Ten Hardball takes a turn at reviewing the University of Illinois squad. He does a quite thorough job.  His take on the Illini? The good thing for Illinois is that outside of Michigan, the remainder of the conference appears to be very close. The hunch here [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on February 11th, 2008 | Leave a Comment! »

Northwoods League. Coastal Plain League. Central Illinois Collegiate League. I’ve written about about these leagues and others like them. They’re all college summer leagues and they serve a very important purpose in developing college baseball players. In this episode of Baseball Zealot Radio, I interview Andrew Hartwell who, as far as I know, has the [...]

Filed under: Baseball Blogs and Web Sites on June 28th, 2007 | Leave a Comment! »