Made available online by Project COBB (the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball) http://www.projectcobb.org.uk/brit-ball.html With kind permission from the BBF Board BRIT BALL-l SUPPORTED BY P,:!flP,:N:A1jL:NW'S ~SPOITS (BJl5P,(BjL££ aliCOUnCIL {f~{{~~~{{{f{f{{{f~ rppscrlo/jL£ ~ qOO~ ....tZfCZ ~ ~ {( Major League Baseball International is happy ~ to Enfield Spartans who are competing {t to announce the staging of the Entenmann's ~ in Europe this month. They will be Baseball Festival at London's Covent Garden 1iJ travelling to Vienna in Austria to ~ between 4 July and 7 July. Once again the {{ compete in the CEB Cup B Pool from 12- ~ festival will feature plenty of interactive it 16 June. Their opponents will be: {( activities including the opportunity for visitors to try their hand at batting, clock their pitching ~ Alby from Sweden {f speed, have their own baseball card made up •. Savigny from France wearing their favourite Major League Baseball 1:1 Frogs from Czech Republic ~ team uniform and watch top baseball highlights ~ Vienna Wanderers of Austria. ~ in the video pavilion. Major League Baseball looks forward to seeing you all at this popular ~ We're sure they will represent our {f event which is part of MLBI's continuing ~ country well and we wish them every ~ commitment to the development of baseball in l!1 success. , Britain. -liJ {{ ~{[~~~i!{f~~~~~ ************************* fjlliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil : Keep in touch with what's : : happening in British Baseball, : THE LONDON TOURNAMENT * call the "'ritish Baseball * a full weekend of senior baseball games : Federation Hotline. : hosted by London Wolves Baseball Club * * * * Saturday 13 and Sunday 14July 1996 * * * * Roundshaw Playing Fields * * * * Hannibal Way * * Wsallington j- ~, : 0891 884533 : urrey -- * * For further information please contact * Calls charged at 37p per minute * : off-peak, 49p per minute peak time : Neil McLeod on 0181 7150214 ************************* Page 2 Brit-Ball Brit-Ball Page 3 ENQUIRIES CALLING ALL CAD~T~ ..•.... Editorial Enquiries: To all BBF Coaches: British Baseball Federation, 66 Belvedere Road, Hessle, A Cadet· baseball camp will be held from 18-23 August North Humberside, HU13 9JJ 1996 at Moorlands School in Leeds. The camp is for players in the 13-15 year age range. which explains the aims and length as a normal baseball bat - 32" Tel: 01482 643551 The following items are available from the BBF to help objectives of the coaching and are approximately twice as thiclc Fax: 01482640224 We need you as coaches to recommend players in this association and gives you details on The barrel of the bat is coloured red, develop your club. http://ourworld.compuserve.com:801 age group to be invited to try out camps. One camp will how to attain level A, AA and AAA white and blue in a union jack design. be held in the London area and the other camp in Leeds. qualifications. A must for supporting the GB squad homepages/SRHERBERT/bbf.htm Diamond Development - contains in the European Championships, and We will select 25 players for the camp. The east will be details of all bodies to whom you can The Great Game of Baseball - an they're only £1 each Editor: Kevin Macadam £50, which will include meals and lodging, T-shirt and apply for funding. A2 poster explaining the game and Deputy Editor: Wendy Macadam cap. it's history. Ideal for displaying in BBF Caps - Let people know that Diamond Construction - every your local library, sports centre and you belong to the British Baseball BBF Executive The instructors will be Major League Baseball possible dimension you could require schools to encourage people to play. Federation. These caps are of an President: Steve Herbert Intemational Envoys and GB National Coaches. for building and marking out your exceptional quality, embroidered with Coaching: Ian Smyth diamond. The Sporting News Official the BBF logo. The are available in Technical: Gary Mortimer Please send your recommendations by 1 Baseball Rules - 1995 Edition ­ either white with a blue peak or red Premier Division: Gerry Walmsley July 1996 to: Introduction to the Game - for SPECIAL PRICE - only £1 per copy with a royal blue peak. At a cost of Conferences: Sharron Bonfield beginners to baseball, it briefly - can your team afford to be without £10 can you afford to be without one Publicity and Publications: Kevin Macadam explains the rules and what them. this summer? Ralph Rago equipment is required. BBF Technical Committee GB Head Coach BBF Scratch Cards - what easier BBF Polo Shirts - Again an Conference Commissioner - South: 7 Sandringham Gardens History of the Game - a brief history way can there be for your team to excellent way to promote the British Sharron Bonfield Leeds LS 17 800 of baseball in the UK, good for any raise funds. Available at a special Baseball Federation. These shirts Conference Commissioner - North: Nigel Moss youngsters doing a school project on price of 15p a card. are available in red, royal blue, white, Conference Commissioner - Scotland: baseball. grey or white with a blue collar. We Brian Edwards BBF Baseball Camp Handbook ­ have XL sizes in stock but S, M, or L Umpires Commissioner - North: Frank Scherer How to set up a Baseball Team ­ This 45 page book is a must for may be ordered at an excellent price National Umpiring Coordinator and Umpires WE'RE ALL GOING How do you go about starting your anyone organising a baseball camp of £12 each. Commissioner - South: Ted Gerard-Thesingh own team - ideas for fund-raising, this summer. It full of ideas for Scorers Commissioner - South: Brian Holland recruiting plaY(,is, details of fees, ·schedules, lesson plans, posters, Scoremaster Scorebooks - Let's where the BBF spend the money etc. make the statisticians lives easier Scorers Commissioner - North: Clive Maude ON OUR SUMMcER advertising, competitions etc to and all use the same scorebook - the Scorers Commissioner - Scotland: Liz Graham make your camp a success plus Teeball - an instructional leaflet on official scorebook of the BBF ­ Great Britain Team Manager: Ralph Rago examples of certificates and awards HOLIDAyS . the game of teeball. Ideal for that can be made at the end of the available at a cost of £4.00. passing on to your local school to camp. It's available at a cost of Advertisement Enguiries: encourage them to play the game. £3.50 per book. BBF Line-up Pads - feel ashamed Kevin Macadam (01482643551) Please note that BBF Head Office will when you present the umpire with The Sporting News Chronicles of your line up on a scrap of paper you Sponsorship and Event Enguiries: Baseball Information Sheet - again be closed from Monday 17June until Baseball - the story of America's found in the bottom of your bag? Get Keith Peskett (01243 867861) another leaflet which is ideal for Tuesday 25 June. During this period people new to the game, it explains National Pastime from 1900 to the yourself a line-up pad. Each pad the telephone will be diverted to what the BBF is and what we can present day. An A4 hardback book contains twenty quadruple sets which HOPE LEISUREWEAR provide. containing 700 historic photographs will last you the season. At £4.25 a another BBF Board member. and 351 pages of great baseball pad can you afford to be without? events - £15 including postage and We have been informed that Hope Leisurewear have Parent Information - a leaflet designed for you to hand out to your packing BBF Pin Badges - Identifies you with gone into liquidation. If anyone has paid any money to For BBF teams, if you have any the BBF - excellent as end of season the company for the purchase of uniforms, please write junior players parents. It explains Inflatable Baseball Bats - You've gifts for players - these iron based to them stating how much you have paid and when. We queries, please contact your relevant baseball to them and gives details of seen Atlanta Braves chop, now three colour badges are a snip at 75p believe the company are trying to reimburse any money how they should become involved in Conference Commissioner. Details here's your chance to start a new each. wi..ch has been paid to them. Their address is: your club. can be found in the BBF Handbook. trend and do the BBF Bash! These Baseball Qualifications - a booklet inflatables blow up to the same 37 Lome Park Road, Boumemouth Dorset BH1 1JL If you require more information on any of the above please contact: If we have any more information regarding the company British Baseball Federation, 66 Belvedere Road, Hessle, North Humberside, HU13 9JJ it will be published in a future edition of Brit-Ball. Tel: 01482643551 Fax: 01482640224 Page 4 Brit-Ball Brit-Ball Page 5 Tayside Cobras 11 Edinburgh Reivers 12 Premier Division - South Southern Conference Division One Cambridge Monarchs 14 London Wolves 8 MAY RESULTS Cambridge were leading in the 3rd but in the 4th and 5th Croydon Pirates 18 City Slick Sidewinders 7 Wolves pUlled the score to 7-3. However Cambridge came back to take the win in the 8th. Winning pitcher Burgess Hill Red Hats 12 Tunbridge Wells Royals Matt Gilbert. Kitsons Cambridge Monarchs 2 Enfield Spartans 22 SENIOR LEAGUES 6 Hounslow Rangers 22 Hemel Red Sox 2 Spartans scored five times in the fourth to ease to Hounslow Hawks 0 Bournemouth B's 9 4 May victory. Brighton Buccaneers 3 Enfield Spartans 11 Southern Conference Division Two On the opening day of Brighton'S new diamond, winning Hull Warriors 3 Great Britain 11 Kitsons Cambridge Monarchs 10 Enfield Spartans pitcher was Ron Whitehead. 4 Brentwood Stags 9 Caterham A's 0 5 May Andrew Gilbert took the win.