A Dutch baseball pitcher Johannes “Hannie” Urbanus was invited to spend a month of training with the NY Giants. A report on ‘honkbal’ in the Netherlands made famous by U.S. soldiers.

In The Netherlands, sport fans know Johannes Hendrikus Urbanus as well as Americans know Urbanus’ hero, Bob Feller. Like Feller, 24-year-old Urbanus is a pitcher. He plays on Amsterdam’s Op Volharding Volgt Overwinning (Perseverance Leads to Victory) team. The O.V.V.O. nine, behind Urbanus’ consistent pitching, has won three straight Dutch…