Brisbane Bandits – It’s A Wrap!
This article was co-written by Alexis Brudnicki Baseball is essentially a game of numbers. And after hitting numerous milestones, superseding many expectations and accumulating a list of firsts, the Brisbane Bandits are winners this season despite an early finish. They had 22 home games and 23 on the road for the up to 24-man roster. […]
An Interview with Brisbane Bandits 2B/Captain Brad Dutton
Leading the Brisbane Bandits and one half of the ‘Bash Brothers’, 29-year-old second baseman Brad Dutton takes five minutes to talk family, the Cubs and playing for Australia… You have been playing baseball from a very young age – what does the game mean to you? I’ve been playing baseball since I was five, it […]
A Labour of Love – Meet the Team Behind the Bandits
A love of baseball can make you do crazy things. Like the players, the majority of the volunteers have day jobs and work for the Brisbane Bandits up to five times a week. Few have even crossed continents, hailing as a far as Canada, to share their love of the game on their own time […]
Andrew ‘Soupy’ Campbell, Just What the Bandits Ordered
During the summer, your typical 19-year-old Australian male is doing everything but hard work. Luckily for the Brisbane Bandits, Andrew ‘Soupy’ Campbell isn’t your stock-standard teenager, who has been busy slugging away, laying the foundations for a career in baseball. Just a few months older than catcher Ryan Battaglia and pitcher Josh Warner, Campbell […]
Not Goofing Around in the ABL: Bandits 1B David Sutherland
Towering over the plate at 6’6, the opposition are duly intimidated. His name causes an eruption from what seems like his own personal cheer squad who attend every one of his games. Puzzled looks are exchanged in the crowd; there is nothing ‘Goofy’ about this player’s presence. Dubbed “one of the quietest players in the […]
