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Are you passionate about baseball?  Do you want to experience Europe in a unique way?  If so, you have come to the right place.  Old World Baseball, LLC (OWB) is dedicated to providing custom-tailored, high-quality, baseball-playing/cultural opportunities in Europe for groups and individuals (of all ages).
 
Each of the founders of OWB, Tom Gillespie and Stephan Rapaglia, has had tremendous coaching and playing experience in the European baseball world.  Between them, Tom and Stephan have coached and/or played in the shadows of Windsor Castle and Edinburgh Castle, in Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, and in other historic European locations such as London, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brno, Cologne, Hamburg, Stockholm, Prague, Madrid, Munich, Regensburg, Rouen, Toulouse, Tuebingen, Grosseto and Zagreb.  OWB was founded by Tom and Stephan so that adventurous and enthusiastic North American ballplayers can share these types of experiences.  
 
*Old World Baseball is not affiliated in any way with Major League Baseball® or the World Baseball Classic®.  

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Registration Now Open for OWB's 9th Annual Europe Trip

OWB is now accepting applications for our 9th annual HS trip to Europe, which will run from June 27 - July 8 and include visits to at least 3 countries (expected to be Belgium, Holland and Germany). Among other cities, we expect to visit Ghent, Bruges, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Berlin, and our anticipated opponents are the Belgian men's national team and/or a top-level Belgian club team, as well as the Dutch and German 18U national teams. For the 9th consecutive year, OWB's staff will include at least Justin Cronk (former college head coach), Stan Exeter (current college head coach), Tom Gillespie (current MLB scout and former German 18U national team head coach), and Stephan Rapaglia (former pro and international head coach, as well as college assistant coach). If you would like information about participating in the 2019 trip, please contact Stephan Rapaglia via email (coachpags@oldworldbaseball.com).

OWB's 8th annual HS trip to Europe, which ran from June 28 - July 9, included 22 players, 3 countries (Germany, Austria and Italy), 8 cities and towns (Tuebingen, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Innsbruck, Venice, Siena, Monterrigioni and Florence), 9 games and 6 opponents (the Tuebingen Hawks, a German 2nd Bundesliga team, and the 18U National Teams from Germany, Czechia, France, Great Britain and Italy).  The 2018 OWB team finished with an impressive 7-1-1 record against high-quality competition.

Tom Gillespie recently completed his second 18U European Championships as Head Coach of the German Junior National Team. Tom previously led the German team to the Bronze Medal in the 2016 European Championships. Tom is also in charge of the German 23U National Team. 

OWB previously noted that Tom Gillespie played a key role in reuniting South Africa's Ngoepe brothers (Gift and Victor) in the Pittsburgh Pirates' organization, with OWB's Tom Gillespie being the international scout responsible for signing Victor.  Older brother Gift has now become the first African-born player to make the big leagues, and Tom is cited in the first MLB.com story about Gift's promotion.
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/226598902/pirates-promote-south-african-gift-ngoepe/

At the invitation of current Great Britain Head Coach Liam Carroll, Stephan Rapaglia served as a special advisor to GB's 2016 WBCQ team. The 2016 WBCQ took place in Brooklyn, NY in September, and GB finished in 2nd place. Stephan is a former GB head coach (2004-2010), and he also served as GB's bench coach for the 2012 WBCQ.

You can also keep track of OWB news via the following forms of social media:
*Facebook: www.facebook.com/oldworldbaseball.
*Gamechanger: 2013 trip boxscores are available via Gamechanger at http://gc.io/team-51a8e688de0b8838ba565dbb. Old World Baseball Summer 13 is the team name.
*Twitter: @oldworldbball.

Tom Gillespie visited Uganda to spend a week running coach and player clinics for the Ugandan Baseball and Softball Federation. Click the headline to see a photo.  In 2010, Tom spent time in Uganda working with many of the members of the Uganda Little League team that qualified for the LLWS.
 
OWB Co-Founder Stephan Rapaglia participated in MLB's World Baseball Classic Qualification tournament as the bench coach for the Great Britain Men's National Team.
  
OWB Co-Founder Tom Gillespie recently took a position with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a professional scout for the team in Europe.
 
Stephan Rapaglia is quoted multiple times in a ESPN.com feature article on the rise of European baseball:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/6948276/mlb-baseball-europe-take-off.
 
Tom Gillespie ran coaching and player clinics in Uganda in 2010, where he worked with many of the members of the Little League team recently featured on ESPN (http://search.espn.go.com/uganda-baseball/videos/6). 
 

 

 
 
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