News

• GB teams look good in ESF official rankings

  15 October 2012

  The European Softball Federation has published official rankings prior to the 2013 season, and British teams are highly ranked across the various competition formats.

• Leicestershire wins the first Battle of the Shires

  11 October 2012

  A unique event in the annals of British baseball and softball had its inception on Sunday, September 23 when Leicestershire met Nottinghamshire in the first 'Battle of the Shires' Challenge – a one-day, three-game series consisting of fastpitch softball, baseball and slowpitch softball, with both counties forming co-ed teams in each discipline.

• IBAF and ISF sign merger agreement

  5 October 2012

  The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and the International Softball Federation (ISF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining a procedure for establishing a new international federation (IF) to govern both baseball and softball, as required by the International Olympic Committee if the two sports are to be considered for a return to the Olympic programme in future.

• BSF Executive Meeting Report: 3 October 2012

  4 October 2012

  The BSF Executive held a conference call meeting on the evening of Wednesday, October 3. Click through for highlights of discussions and decisions.

• Mixed indoor fastpitch tournament in Brest

  1 October 2012

  The Dubliners Baseball and Softball Club in Brest, in the far north-west of Brittany, France is organising the first-ever "Phare Ouest" international indoor mixed fastpitch tournament, to be played on the weekend of January 12-13, 2013 -- and British teams are invited.

• Police tragedy in Manchester touches softball community

  21 September 2012

  The tragic killing of police officers Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone in Manchester on September 18 has had an impact on the city's softball community, where three league teams have police officers as members and where the Hough End Police Club is used as a centre for socialising, meetings and courses by the Manchester Softball League.

• Olympic applicant sports face key inspections

  20 September 2012

  The sports bidding for a spot on the programme at the 2020 Olympic Games will all face a key inspection before the end of the year at an Evaluation Event that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will attend for each discipline.

• New Culture Secretary backs women’s sport

  18 September 2012

  The Coalition government's new Culture Secretary, Maria Miller MP, has called for increased television coverage of women's sport following the success of female athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

• Anzacs slug their way to World Series title

  17 September 2012

  In the most extraordinary Trophy Final in the 14-year history of BSUK's Softball World Series Tournament, played at the BA Concorde Club near Heathrow on September 15-16, the Anzacs and the GB Masters combined to blast a total of 14 home runs – seven each – over a friendly outfield fence. But when the barrage was over, it was the Anzacs who prevailed by 29-23 to win their third World Series title.

• Academy dates announced for winter season

  15 September 2012

  BaseballSoftballUK has announced dates for National Academy Softball sessions over the 2012-13 closed season at the Dome in Milton Keynes, plus dates for GB Softball national team training sessions at Milton Keynes and Regional Academy Softball sessions in Nottingham and in the South (probably London).

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