Please try the action again and if the problem continues, contact Customer Support Described as Europe’s biggest baseball and softball festival Finkstonball will be held at the A’s Ballpark in Attnang-Puchheim Founded in 1997, more than 110 teams from 24 different countries have travelled to the small town of Attnang-Puchheim, 46 miles from Salzburg, to take part in the celebratory weekend, MLS said. During the day fans can enjoy baseball and softball tournaments and at night a music festival. See more at finkstonball.com  Sign In Subscribe Now Vernon’s Jonny Kashuba and David Burns are tying to win the Austrian version of the World Series with some Major League-type numbers boosted the Attnang-Puccheim Athletics to the Austrian Baseball League pennant while setting a circuit record for wins in a season with 24 Kashuba led the Athletics in most offensive categories with a batting average of .372 Kashuba also won the league gold glove for his defensive play at shortstop marvelled at Kashuba’s late-season explosion where he smacked five homers in six games and followed up with four taters in four playoff tilts “This is unheard of in this league where in a 28-game season semi pro players that play here will maybe hit eight to 10 at the most,” said Burns The Athletics also boast the league’s top pitching staff led by Josh Castanza (1.59 earned run average) out of Florida Both pitchers reach levels of 86-88 miles an hour The Athletics are preparing for the championships after defeating the Schwaz Tigers 3-1 in the best-of-five semifinal the A’s rode the bats of Burns and Kashuba last weekend by winning Game 3 (16-4) and Game 4 (10-0) to advance to the final 195-pound Kashuba belted two of his four home runs in the series while Burns went 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI Kashuba smacked his third homer of the day off the Tigers’ Californian starter while Burns went 2-for-3 The A’s began the championship series with two games Saturday a team that has won the most titles in the history of the ABL The remainder of the best-of-five final series goes next weekend at the A’s Garden in Attnang-Puchheim “The series is dubbed the Young Stars vs the Old Stars and the Metrostars team is comprised mostly of a young talented nucleus of players aged 19-23 while the A’s are a more veteran team with almost all of the players in their late 20s and early 30s,” said Burns Attnang was founded by Bavarian seddlers in the late eighth century The town of Puchheim is documented the first time in 1135 In 1912 the community changed its name from Puchheim to Attnang-Puchheim to acknowledge this growing part of the town Anyone interested in viewing Games 3-5 online can visit the A’s website at: www.athleticsbaseball.at The series can also be followed in English on www.mister-baseball.com Dialogue and debate are integral to a free society and we welcome and encourage you to share your views on the issues of the day. We ask that you be respectful of others and their points of view, refrain from personal attacks and stay on topic. To learn about our commenting policies and how our community-based moderation works, please read our Community Guidelines The Polish railway company PKP Intercity announced that a new overnight connection from Warsaw to Munich will be launched starting from December 10th. The route will pass through three countries. This is the first overnight connection with Germany in many years, according to lowcostavia.com.ua. Through agreements with the Austrian railway (ÖBB) and the German railway (DB) the route of the new Chopin train has been extended to Munich It is being offered as a convenient way to reach the Alps "In addition to the group of carriages traveling to Munich this train will also run from Warsaw to Prague with a group of carriages that will be switched in Bohumín and a group of carriages to Budapest will be switched in Brzecław," PKP Intercity announced The new route will include the following stations: the IC Chopin will travel along the route through Oswiecim and Czechowice-Dziedzice mister-baseball.com Passionate about European baseball since 2007 which won the Austrian championship last year replaced their head coach after a 4-2 start Former Seattle Mariner Greg McCarthy will be replaced by the 25-year-old North Americans Jason Ermers and Nick Pardikes Both will also help the team at the plate and on the mound The club was not satisfied with the work of McCarthy and mentioned a lack of communication between the team and the coach as main reason for the dismissal Ermers is a left-handed pitcher from Canada Pardikes played for the New Mexico State University and in Belgium in the past The A’s are off this week and take on the SUPERFUND Wanderers Vienna on May 24th The MOSQUITO Athletics also moved their website to a new domain: www.athleticsbaseball.at a teacher at the Regenbogenschule in Attnang-Puchheim wrote and illustrated a multilingual children's book with her pupils She sees the lack of acceptance in society and the prejudice against children who speak several languages as a problem "It's important to show that you accept other people even if they speak a different language," say ten-year-old Amos and his classmate Jasmin during their visit to the "Krone" at the Attnang-Puchheim Rainbow School As soon as you enter the elementary school it quickly becomes clear that the words of the two pupils are not just empty phrases - linguistic diversity is a way of life here Flags from a number of nations line the entrance area "27 different languages are spoken in our school we try to incorporate the languages and cultures into the lessons which works very well and is also accepted," says teacher Kasandra Blazan who therefore also took a very creative approach to encouraging the children "Pablo's heart language"Together with her class she wrote and illustrated a multilingual children's book entitled "Pablo's Heart Language" The story incorporates the authors' native languages to convey a sense of what it feels like to be new to a country and not speak the language It is also intended to be thought-provoking The children have gained more self-confidence through this book  Psychologically and physically attacked"This book has given the children more self-confidence It's actually a gift to be able to grow up with several languages society has a negative attitude towards this topic It really bothers me that multilingual children are immediately associated with problem schools," says Blazan grew up bilingual and was attacked both mentally and physically by classmates as a child as a result "But now I'm actually grateful that it happened to me Otherwise I probably wouldn't be where I am now and I wouldn't be so committed to this heartfelt issue," admits the dedicated teacher who has now even created a play from the book that will be performed in Attnang on Tuesday we're really pleased and hope that we can use it to raise awareness of this issue," says Blazan.  This article has been automatically translated,read the original article here Willkommen in unserer Community! 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Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren In Kürze bekommen Sie eine Bestätigungs-Mail von uns motorsport driver Reinhard Kofler was crowned karting champion ahead of Formula 1 superstar Lewis Hamilton - now the KTM works driver from Attnang Puchheim was once again at the top of the podium in an international series and crowned himself European Champion with the 600 hp KTM X-BOW GT2 But Reinhard Kofler from Attnang-Puchheim holds this success in very who can claim to have become European Karting Champion ahead of Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton Kofler achieved precisely this feat in 1999 No premier classWhile his rivals at the time later made it into the premier class of motorsport the now 39-year-old "only" made it into the Formula BMW and Renault series and later into touring car and endurance racing 25 years after his first European Championship title Kofler can call himself European Champion for the second time 600 hp car also available as a road versionTogether with his MZR-Ried partner Martin Koch the works driver triumphed in the KTM X-BOW GT2 in the Pro-Am class of the European Series But the fact that I became European karting champion ahead of Lewis Hamilton is worth a bit more," laughs Kofler which is also available as a road version with 500 hp for just under 319,200 euros net from the ground up as a test and development driver for KTM This article has been automatically translated,read the original article here In Kürze bekommen Sie eine Bestätigungs-Mail von uns.