December 15, 2005
Softball in Iran
One of the fun things about writing this blog is hearing from people the world over. I recently received this e-mail from a softball player in Iran.
my name is mahdi golmohammadi.iam the member of tehran baseball team i have been the member of national team for 5 years.i had 6 championship of the country and i was the best outfielder for 3 times and for one time the best batter.for one time participated for phillipin asian competition.and i attended in 9 american trainers classes and three major league players(don gordon-shawn boskie-jet hansen).iam prepering for 2006 doha(qatar).iam studying in sport sciences at tehran university.i intend to continue my sport activity in newer field.if you would like i will send you my pictures and my documents.( thank you)
I didn't know they played any type of baseball in Iran. So today Medhi sent me some photos that I'm happy to share with you (click on an image for the full picture).
Here's his award for the 2005 season:

Here's his certificate from the Manila tournament:

Here's his team at the Asian games:

And here's Mahdi with his American trainer Glenn Johnson.

And here's a story from Iran Today explaining how baseball came to Iran.
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simply put, that is f***ing awesome.
Extremely cool. Baseball could save the world.
Amazing. I'd love to see Mahdi play. What a game!
Right on, Mahdi!
That's great stuff to hear, thanks for sending it to baseballmusings, and thanks to the webmaster for posting it so we could all enjoy hearing about it.
I hope you have a great 2006 season.
Really awesome. Makes you feel good about cross-cultural relations, if only for a moment. Great stuff.
This is proof that Baseball is far more universal then some people say.
Iran already has some of the greatest filmmakers in the world (Kiarostami, Panahi, practically the entire Makhmalbaf family--if you have no idea what I'm talking about search imdb, rent some DVDs, be amazed). Good to see them making inroads in baseball as well.
Am I the only one to think the group shot looks an awful lot like the Red Sox?
the reason they look like the sox is their coach( yours truely) is a big sox fan lol ...anyways, its nice to see all the nice comments about baseball in iran. we have been playing baseball here for 12 years now. and the last 4-5 years we have actually been quite good. here is a yahoo group for more pix...http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/iran_baseball/