British Leagues 2007.

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The new season began last sunday with defending champs, Richmond traveling to play new club, London Mets.

The Mets were a youth team, but this year have entered senior baseball.
They are made up of their former youth team players and a few veterans who have joined to offer experiance and, obviously, some quallity arms/bats.

I saw the first game of the DH, and was quite impressed with the Mets, esp their fielding, as they turned a couple of DP's.

They held on to win the game 10-9. Game two Richmond won 11-1.

Hopefully the team will continue to play well enough to keep their Premier League status.

[Red Sox Rule]

i'd forgotten that the season had started. I'm going to be rooting for Menwith Hill this year as there only about half an hour away from where i'm living now.

p.s shouldn't this thread just go into the british baseball thread http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=30569

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RSR, check out this link - www.britishbaseball.org./downloads/BB_Bull_April_2007.pdf

Go to page 12

[Red Sox Rule]

Thats great...i hadnt heard about that. Trust them to do it just after i move to university in leeds :mad:

Its about time they had a team set up round here. Lets hope its a success and plenty of people get involved

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Sunday 6th saw the first Inter-Divisional games of the season. These are games between teams from the National League (highest level) and Premier Division (next level down).

Only one close game among them.

Burgess Hill 5 @ Bracknell 15
Burgess Hill 1 @ Bracknell 18

Windsor 1 @ Croydon 11
Windsor 1 @ Croydon 11

Sidewinders 0 @ Richmond 10
Sidewinders 1 @ Richmond 13

Southampton 8 @ London 6
Southampton 3 @ London 14

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This site (http://www.bbfbaseball.com/) may be of interest to anyone who follows the Northern and Scottish leagues.

[StanTheMan]

How does the Liverpool club look this year? My allegiance to the Reds makes me perhaps the only Yank Liverpool BASEBALL fan in the world!!

Good to see some interest in British Basebal!!

Oh... and Walk On!

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Stan, Liverpool will again be one of the favortites to win their division.

bbfbaseball.com (http://www.bbfbaseball.com) will be concentrating on the Northern teams and will feature game reports i'm sure.

[adamsowell]

Do any of the top level teams there sign american players?

[CubNZ]

Do any of the top level teams there sign american players?

Somehow I doubt there is any money in the game there at all. I'm sure the teams find US college students spending time in the UK and maybe a few USAF personel (when I used to commute past the Mildenhall base it was a brief oasis of American cars in rural England - and I could pick up a USA today there to catch up with baseball in those difficult pre-internet days).

I'm glad to see some baseball interest in my native Scotland though, if I ever make it back I'll have to see if a team needs a slick fielding 2nd baseman who couldn't get a bat on a slow moving beach ball. :dismay:

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Somehow I doubt there is any money in the game there at all. I'm sure the teams find US college students spending time in the UK and maybe a few USAF personel


Very true.

Nathan Dunn, who played third base for Louisiana St in 1997 played a few games for the London Warriors in, I think, 1998.

Carlos Lopez, SS for San Diego St, played on Brighton's National championship team in 2001.

One of the best pitchers in recent years was Matt Scales, who played for London in 2002. He pitched at DII Florida Southern.

[varybarry]

That's really interesting I didn't know that U.S. players went to Europe to play baseball.

[CubNZ]

It'll be the other way around, they find themselves spending time in the UK for some reason and are probably glad to find a game above sandlot level.

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The British National team won a tournament in Germany. It was a warm-up for the European championships this september in Barcelona.

Read the reports here. (http://www.baseballsoftballuk.com/gen_insert.php?from_level3=Articles&db_story=1778&this_page=baseballnews&back=Current++News)

Also, NCAA Division III school, Johns Hopkins University, are playing a game against the GB team on 6th July at Finsbury Park, London.

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As of 24th of June, Croydon and Liverpool are both unbeaten at 14-0.


NORTH
Liverpool Trojans 14-0
Menwith Hill Patriots 8-2
Manchester Eagles 5-4
Birmingham Maple Leafs 4-6
Sheffield Bladerunners 2-11
Halton Jaguars 1-10



SOUTH
Croydon Pirates 14-0
London Mets 12-4
Richmond Flames 10-4
Bracknell Braves 6-6

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The Great Britain team won a DH against Johns Hopkins University on friday evening in London.

Game 1: GB 6-3 JHU. WP: Cody Cain, 6 IP
Game 2: GB 2-1 JHU. WP: Tom Gillespie, CG

Not a bad turn-out for a cloudy & windy evening.

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The British National League has reached the semi finals stage.

Northern champion Liverpool will play London and Southern champion Croydon will play Menwith Hill.

The games will be played on saturday 1st september at Roundshaw Diamond, home of the Croydon club.

The two SF winners then meet in the Final, which will be a three game series. Game one will be played on the saturday, then game two and three ,if needed, will be played on sunday.

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SEMI FINALS

London Mets 2-1 Liverpool Trojans

The Trojans led 1-0 into the 5th inning and looked like reaching their first National Final in 25 years, but it wasn't to be.

Croydon Pirates 4-0 Menwith Hill

The Pirates reach their third straight final.

FINAL - GAME ONE

London 7-2 Croydon

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London 11-1 Croydon

London win the championship in their first season!