and veterans not included in the “list of 40”? Or do you think that Major League clubs could authorize players from their "list of 40" to seek, first, the Olympic ranking?This is the first time the WBSC Premier12 is open to all players, but in the end, whether a player gets approval to participate depends on the leagues and individual clubs. Players from all leagues have expressed interest to play in the Premier12, and this response from the players themselves is a strong indication about the growing appeal of international baseball.The increase of prize money to $5.2 million for the Premier 12 is also a reflection of how much WBSC values the role of the players, teams - and their leagues and national federations - in making theBlog

Presenting a previously unpublished translation of a banned short story by Anna Croissant-Rust

In 1891, early on in her career, German author Anna Croissant-Rust (1860-1943) published a number of remarkable short works. Blending prose and poetry, disregarding taboos, she was pushing at the edges of the permissible in both style and subject matter. In August she pushed right through, with a contribution to Moderne Blätter, the journal of the Munich-based ‘Society for Modern Living’ of which Croissant-Rust was the sole female member.

‘Wedding’ was a vivid insight into sexual anxiety in which a marriage ceremony is rendered as something akin to a ritual sacrifice. Croissant-Rust describes a young bride exposed to the leering gaze of the wedding party, her fear of imminent deflowering projected into imagined dialogue. Here we find