We’re well into the 2013 Major League Baseball season, so it’s the right time for the sport to get sociable. With the MLB Social Tumblr page now active, little leaguers and softball weekend players can read revealing infographics with plenty of hints… continue...
What would it be like to send messages to 2.8m people around the world at any one time? That’s more viewers than the news gets and one man, who once sued Kim Kardashian for $24m, will be afforded this audience as he attempts to make baseball fans worldwide… continue...
Milwaukee Brewers are hosting a social media night on the 28th May to discuss how far social media in sport has grown hosted by Tom Haudricourt a local reporter who has covered the Brewers for multiple years.This night will be visited by a Brewers player… continue...
For the first time ever fans of Major League Baseball will be able to watch live games on YouTube. This is the announcement that the MLB’s YouTube account is launching a new scheme which will allow its viewers to view all game highlights from two days after… continue...
During the Philadelphia Phillies game against Tampa Bay Rays the ball was struck and rolled towards a Hooters ballgirl at the side of the field. Unaware that the ball was still in play, she picked it up and gave it to a young fan in the crowd before some… continue...
The “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”-anthem is on a pause since the MLB season is enjoying a spring break, but that won’t stop the league from encouraging fans to take each other out to the ball training instead. Via their official Instagram they’ve… continue...
New York Yankees are crying out for some depth at third base and their general manager Brian Cashman cried out publicly as he allowed reporters to spread the Twitter rumours of his team being interested in retired legend Chipper Jones. He originally intended… continue...
New York Mets publicist Jay Horwitz has finally embraced social media. Just over a month ago he joined Twitter under the handle @Jay_HorwitzPR, posting: “Joined the twitter world. My dog Tiki and cats Leo, Stan and Lilly can’t wait 34 years from Doug… continue...
Major League Baseball is expanding its use of Apple iOS6 Passbook app from use at four stadiums to a massive thirteen stadiums at the start of the new 2013 season. After the introduction of Passbook in the final two games of last season, the app was trialled… continue...
Toronto Blue Jays announced single game tickets to their fans with this YouTube video, using Twitter conversations between fans as their main tool for boosting sales. The video shows fans tweeting before a game, using the various team hashtags within their… continue...
MLB’s show ‘Intentional Talk’ is an “hour-long open forum where everyone and everything are the subject of discussion and opinion”, as described by themselves. The show makes use of crowdsourcing, integrating tweets that crates fan discussion for… continue...
Major League Baseball favourites the Boston Red Sox have become the first MLB team to create a Japanese Twitter account (@redsoxjp). The Red Sox’ launched the website a little over a week ago and it has already seen them rack up over five thousand followers… continue...
Major League Baseball (MLB) side LA Dodgers have launched their "social fan rewards" website, in which users of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram can earn points in order to win big prizes. They are only using these three platforms for the time being… continue...
Pitching legend Roger Clemens posted a picture on Twitter two days ago to express his disappointment to not being included into baseball's Hall of Fame, as the Baseball Writers association stood firmly on not voting for players involved in the huge steroid… continue...
Photos posted by Sammy Sosa on Pinterest three weeks ago inexplicably slipped under the radar...until now. The reason it’s inexplicable is because the pictures land somewhere between highly amusing and downright petrifying. The legendary American baseball… continue...
When the 2013 Major League Baseball Florida Spring Training season begins in late February in 14 locations around the Sunshine State, it will mark 125 years since the Washington Nationals headed south for pre-season warmups. The first full day of games is… continue...
Baseball team the LA Dodgers are looking at using a rewards programme to promote use of their social media sites. They describe it as a “Social Media Loyalty” programme which “would give fans points for retweeting, replying, and helping the Dodgers… continue...
Ben Nicholson-Smith of MLBtraderumours.com has posted an easy quick covered guide to the social media pages of all the MLB teams. The article, which was posted yesterday, includes links to every teams Facebook, Twitter and RSS pages and feeds. The article… continue...
Major League Baseball opened the application period on Monday for the MLB Fan Cave for the 2013 World Baseball Classic, offering a fan from each of the 16 countries that participate a once in a life-time opportunity. The Fan Cave is MLB’s shrine to all… continue...
College baseball team the Houston Cougars have launched the 12 days of Houston Baseball Holiday Contest, in a bid to increase social media interest among fans. The college announced the competition on their website (www.uhcougars.com), and the contest will… continue...
