Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Tale of former Swedish star

Now playing minor-league baseball back in the United States, Jason Glosser's hometown paper in Coles County, Illinois, mentions the pitcher's stint playing baseball in Sweden:

This is Glosser’s fourth year playing professional baseball. He spent his first two seasons as a member of the Karlskoga Bats in the Elite division of the Swedish League in Sweden. He got to play in the Class B All-Europe championships in Belgium against teams from different European countries.

Glosser helped lead the Bats to their first league championship in the history of the team, and was selected as the Elite Division MVP. He had one game in which he pitched, and he struck out 20 batters. He immediately picked up the nickname Bossa, which means “boss of the game.”

Glosser was heading back to Sweden for his third year of baseball when he got a call from an independent league team in the United States. The Bisbee-Douglas, Arizona Copperkings of the Arizona-Mexico League contacted him three weeks before he was to leave for Europe.

Presumably the "Class B All-Europe Championships" refers to Karlskoga's appearance in the 2002 European Cup B-Pool in Antwerp, Belgium, in which they finished third.

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