A Voice Note Into the Next Life: Inside Minor League Baseball
Inside Minor League Baseball, where strange team identities, small-town rituals and abrupt promotions reveal the labor beneath the MLB dream.
Holger Schellkopf
Editor-in-Chief
Holger is an established German journalist and media executive. As former Editor-in-Chief of t3n and W&V, and through senior roles at Mittelbayerischer Verlag, he has worked across the full spectrum of publishing – from traditional print journalism to contemporary digital media. His journey into baseball began through his son and quickly became a lasting passion. At INNINGS, Holger brings editorial depth, journalistic rigor, and a keen sense of accessibility, ensuring that complex stories are told with clarity, relevance, and professional precision.
Baseball Caps in Hip-Hop: The 10 Most Important MLB Caps in Pop Culture
From Eazy-E through Jay-Z to Kendrick Lamar: how Yankees, White Sox and Dodgers caps became symbols of hip-hop culture – and why baseball still shapes fashion today.
Shohei Ohtani: 10 Facts About the Los Angeles Dodgers' MLB Superstar
The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar has moved the limits of what seems possible in modern baseball. Ten facts about arguably the most extraordinary player in MLB history.
Why Baseball Works Differently in Japan Than in the USA
How an American invention was transformed in the Far East into something entirely its own, almost sacred. Or: why does baseball work so fundamentally differently in Japan than in its country of origin?
Catchball, Koshien, Wa
In Japan, baseball is not a sport. It is a stance, a culture, a society. Now Japan is sending back into the world what it made of the game.
Murakami, Bananas, 1000 Games: Baseball Is Having Its Moment
Munetaka Murakami leads MLB in home runs. The Savannah Bananas are filling major stadiums. In Hamburg, the Stealers are celebrating their thousandth game. Baseball in 2026 is having its moment.
El Alemán
From Mannheim's U.S. military communities to the ballfields of the Dominican Republic, Bull built a coaching philosophy around energy, intelligence, and the stubborn work of developing German players for a global game.
When Baseball Dances
From the drumbeat in a WBC dugout to national holidays to a small town in Indiana where Latin baseball built the sport a new home: how baseball became the shared language of an entire hemisphere.