The Spirit of GB Softball
Around the middle of December, the European Softball Federation (ESF) circulated a list of all the countries that had sent teams to European Championship and Cup competitions in 2011, and where those...
View ArticleWhere is the Olympic spirit in British sports funding?
A story in the Daily Telegraph in the run-up to Christmas started off as follows: "The Olympic dreams of hundreds of sportsmen and women are all but shattered after they were booted off a funding...
View ArticleOpening up the BSF Hall of Fame
The British Softball Federation inducted 14 new members into its Hall of Fame during the BSF AGM on February 18 – and 12 of them are still active in the sport, still doing what they were inducted for....
View ArticleRevising softball history
Revisionism in history has had something of a bad name since the middle of the 20th century, thanks to the efforts of Stalin, Mao Tse Dong and others of that ilk to shape the collective historical...
View ArticleBaseball and softball join hands
The merger between the International Softball Federation (ISF) and the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is just about a fait accompli. At a Special Congress in Houston on 30 October, ISF...
View ArticleUK Sport and the Philosopher’s Stone
by Bob Fromer Not so very long ago, and certainly not in a galaxy far, far away, the British government waved its magic wand and a new agency, called UK Sport, was created. The year was 1997, just...
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GB Fastpitch Teams have one eye on Tokyo
By Bob Fromer Four female GB Fastpitch Teams are taking part in official international competitions this summer, and for at least three of them, the carrot dangling in front of the players is the...
View ArticleGB Softball near misses: is there a pattern?
The general wisdom about GB Fastpitch Team programmes is that we punch way above our weight in international softball, something we should all be proud of. This is certainly the case when you consider...
View ArticleLooking forward to spring….
February has now turned to March. Over in the United States, baseball spring training and the first college softball tournaments are well under way in the Florida and Arizona and California sunshine....
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Fastpitch on the move
These are exciting times for fastpitch softball in the UK. A lot has happened so far in 2016 – more than for many previous years – and there will be more good news to come over the next few months....
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UK Sport awards reinforce inequality
On 9 December, the British sporting world – or at least those people with stakes in the outcome – lined up to watch a ritual that takes place every four years: the awarding of money by the government...
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Looking back at the GB summer
Olympic qualification in 2019 for the Tokyo Olympic Games is now the main programme goal for female GB fastpitch teams, so what kind of progress towards this goal was indicated by results achieved...
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Slowpitch is growing in Europe
Who knows what will happen when Brexit finally begins to bite -- but right now it’s clear that there are no trade barriers or hard borders stopping the popularity of slowpitch softball flowing from...
View ArticleUK Sport and the Philosopher’s Stone
by Bob Fromer Not so very long ago, and certainly not in a galaxy far, far away, the British government waved its magic wand and a new agency, called UK Sport, was created. The year was 1997, just...
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Slowpitch is growing in Europe
Who knows what will happen when Brexit finally begins to bite -- but right now it’s clear that there are no trade barriers or hard borders stopping the popularity of slowpitch softball flowing from...
View ArticleThe Spirit of GB Softball
Around the middle of December, the European Softball Federation (ESF) circulated a list of all the countries that had sent teams to European Championship and Cup competitions in 2011, and where those...
View ArticleWhere is the Olympic spirit in British sports funding?
A story in the Daily Telegraph in the run-up to Christmas started off as follows: "The Olympic dreams of hundreds of sportsmen and women are all but shattered after they were booted off a funding...
View ArticleOpening up the BSF Hall of Fame
The British Softball Federation inducted 14 new members into its Hall of Fame during the BSF AGM on February 18 – and 12 of them are still active in the sport, still doing what they were inducted for....
View ArticleRevising softball history
Revisionism in history has had something of a bad name since the middle of the 20th century, thanks to the efforts of Stalin, Mao Tse Dong and others of that ilk to shape the collective historical...
View ArticleBaseball and softball join hands
The merger between the International Softball Federation (ISF) and the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) is just about a fait accompli. At a Special Congress in Houston on 30 October, ISF...
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