News (New to softball)
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New softball club starting in Dorset
8 April 2014
Free softball coaching sessions will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings in Dorset beginning the week after Easter as part of an attempt to get a new softball club off the ground in the area.
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The first competitive game of 2014?
18 March 2014
Could this have been the first competitive outdoor softball game of the 2014 season? On Thursday 30 January, a team from the Swindon Softball League took on trainee officers from the Defence Academy in Shrivenham in temperatures of 2 degrees C, and the Swindon team eventually won by 31-10.
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National Kickball Day to raise funds for GB Teams
19 February 2014
The BSF has designated Sunday 4 May as National Kickball Day. With no other tournaments or events on the calendar that day, the BSF is asking as many softball leagues or teams as possible to run local Kickball Tournaments to raise money for their league and for national teams.
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Leicester Blue Sox gain grant to develop female fastpitch
18 December 2013
The Leicester Blue Sox Baseball and Softball Club has been awarded a £3,950 Sport England Small Grant for new initiatives to designed to grow participation in female fastpitch softball during 2014.
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Monmouth School softball aims for the stars
18 December 2013
It began three years ago with a small school softball club started by a physics teacher, Gareth Dunn, who had previously played softball in London. Now, the school team, the Monmouth Rockets, has just been promoted in the Bristol Softball League and has six players in GB Fastpitch team pools.
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Women’s fastpitch is a hit in the East Midlands
30 September 2013
The second annual "Battle of the Shires" tournament will take place in Leicester on Sunday 6 October. The inaugural event last year inspired the creation of a successful East Midlands Fastpitch League this season.
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Chalfont Softball Club plans Junior Softball Nights
26 June 2013
Young people in the Chiltern District will be encouraged to take up a new sport this summer when Chalfont Softball Club puts on a series of six Junior Softball Nights on Friday evenings during July and the first half of August, starting on 5 July, in an attempt to find the softball stars of the future.
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Harrogate Tigers to hold baseball and softball Taster Days
17 June 2013
The Harrogate Tigers Baseball Club will be holding baseball and softball 'Taster Days' on the Stray in Harrogate for baseball and slowpitch softball players of all ages, abilities and experience from 1.00-4.00 pm on 29 June, 13 July and 17 August.
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Herts softball programme looking for help
17 June 2013
The Herts Softball Programme, part of the successful Herts Baseball Club, will be staging Wednesday evening open training sessions on 19 June and 26 June – and the club is looking for paid staff to help run its softball activities over the summer.
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Solent League has a busy April
21 May 2013
The outdoor season has now started in the Solent Softball League, but before that the league had a very busy April.