In recognition of the tremendous hard work, dedication and enthusiasm shown by coaches throughout the sports of softball and baseball, make your nomination by 28 January 2005.
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BaseballSoftballUK has been invited by UK Sport to submit a four-year plan and costs for the GB Women’s Fastpitch Team programme for 2009-2012, based on the assumption that London is awarded the 2012 Olympic Games.
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A new Equality Standard for Sport was launched on November 9 at the first National Equality in Sport Conference in London, attended by Tessa Jowell MP, head of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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The BaseballSoftballUK office will close for the Christmas holidays on Thursday, December 23 and will re-open on Wednesday, January 5.
Best wishes for a great holiday season from the BSUK staff
to everyone in the softball and baseball communities!
The International Softball Federation (ISF) has invited BaseballSoftballUK to draw up a four-year Development Agreement between the ISF and Great Britain so that the ISF can support Fastpitch development in this country.
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Recently the BBF put a forward a proposal to the membership that all the BBF Leagues move to wooden bats. Great discussion has ensued since then, through email correspondence and the BSUK Forums. Read Ian Cox's response now!
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The BSF Executive met on November 21 to work through a long agenda of softball issues. Decisions were reached on some matters, while others were referred to sub-committees for development.
Key issues and decisions are set out in this series of stories.
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With the presentation around the London 2012 Candidate File, graphics were released showing proposed venues for the Olympic baseball and softball competitions that could take place in the capital in eight years’ time.
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BSUK's Tom Gillespie and Donald Morris-Vincent were present on Friday 19 November as Britain’s Olympic Bid received a massive boost with a film starring global icons of sport, stage and screen.
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Jennifer Joseph is a senior softballer at the University of Delaware who spent her summer in the UK as an Import Pitcher. Now back in the States, she's inspired her teammates to collect and send equipment to the Grass Roots Girls’ Fastpitch Programme.
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The BSF Executive Committee believes that a review of softball fees is now due, and has produced a consultation paper ahead of the upcoming AGM in February. And as part of the decision-making process, the BSF want to hear from you!
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At the next BBF Board Meeting on 28 November the British Baseball Federation Board will be considering a proposal that all BBF Leagues become wooden bat leagues from the 2005 Season.
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BaseballSoftballUK publishes the final draft of the Whole Sport Plan, a sport and business plan for the development of baseball and softball 2005-2009
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BSUK is finalising a venue for the official BSUK World Series Game 1 Party in central London. Sick of only one venue offering the live game in London, BSUK has decided to approach partners to host a party for true baseball fans.
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Pavel Prachar of the Czech Republic has been involved with softball for 33 years. Now he has been named as the Development Coordinator for Europe. This post is the European Softball Federation's first paid position.
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The annual Softball League Heads Forum is set for the final Sunday in October. The forum will be significantly expanded from years past. The agenda has now been announced.
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Trials for the Grass Roots Fastpitch School of Excellence will be held during October in the London Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames and in Nottinghamshire. Trials in the East London/Newham area will follow shortly.
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Sheffield punctuated its sparkling 24-0 season with a win at the round-robin Division 1 Final 4 tournament, due largely in part to the efforts of tournament MVP Tommy Booth. Halton finished second.
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Africa won the World Series Softball Tournament for the second year in a row on the weekend of September 18-19. But the most surprising impact was made by the Jersey Softball Association, making their debut and finishing third.
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On Saturday, September 18th, GB National Team Coach Stephan Rapaglia and Coach-in-Residence Tom Gillespie will be hosting a bonus Academy session for all players and coaches who have been involved with past Academies and those who aspire to be.
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A technical hitch is effecting articles involving tables and pictures, meaning that sections of the article may appear out of logical order. This will be rectified asap.
BSUK produces monthly bulletins which are emailed out to the baseball and softball communities. They are also contained on this website, and you can download them here.
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Division 1 Final 4, Halton Baseball Club, 18-19 September: Croydon Pirates II, Herts Falcons, Sheffield Bladerunners and the hosts, Halton Jaguars, go for the third-tier championship.
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It was an up-and-down kind of weekend for the London Avengers, but it all came good in the end for a determined team just one year after being a London Ad League Rookie squad.
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The Manchester Charity Softball Tournament in honour of MSL Softballer and organiser Alex Hall will take place on Saturday, September 18 as the “Pink Northern World Cup”, to be played at Parrs Wood School in Didsbury, Manchester.
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Manchester, 11-12 September: The Youth Final 4 National Championships will see eight of the country's top junior baseball teams compete in two age categories to become National Youth Champions.
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The Final 4 saw success for both teams of the Croydon baseball club. On Sunday, the 2nd team squeezed through to the Division 1 finals in 3 weeks, then sat back to watch the first team complete an astounding journey to the National Championship trophy.
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Cambridge Monarchs completed a stunning season, in which they were at one point 19-0 in the Premier Division South, by winning the Premier Division Final 4 on Sunday. But they had to show their battling qualities in the final.
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Great Britain are European Co-ed Slowpitch champions for the fourth consecutive time after they came from behind to defeat the Irish by a score of 6-2, in a close and tense game.
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The Great Britain Slowpitch Team dodged the raindrops and
took control of the European Slowpitch Championships here
today with three straight wins that put them in pole
position to finish at the top of the group when pool play
ends tomorrow.
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A curious European Slowpitch Championships will begin to unravel its plots and subplots on Thursday as the defending champions, Great Britain, try to secure 1st or 2nd place in the pool standings after recovering from a near-disastrous start.
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Two years ago, the GB Co-ed Slowpitch Team dropped games in pool play before storming back to win the European Slowpitch Championships. It looks like they'll have to do the same thing this year to win a fourth straight European title.
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Final 4 National Championships, 28-29 August, Brighton: The best four National League baseball teams from the 2004 season will battle it out in a knockout system for the honour of being crowned 2004 National Champions.
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The crowd were on their feet at the end of a tremendous A Nationals final between Chromies and Slammers, the climax to a weekend of high-quality softball at the A & B Co-ed Slowpitch National Championships, University of Kent in Canterbury, August 14-15.
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The Olympic baseball and fastpitch softball competitions open over 14-15 August, with the softball final on 23 August and baseball conclusion on 25 August.
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After a period of uncertainty, it has been confirmed that funding will continue Olympic Sports Development Fund, making it possible to prepare for and compete in the European Women’s Fastpitch A Pool Championships next summer.
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Linz, Austria, 23-28 August: GB will be defending the title they won in England in 1998, and successfully defended in Ireland in 2000 and the Czech Republic in 2002. Rules and conditions for the 2004 tournament have been set.
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NASN have kindly offered all BaseballSoftballUK members and baseball fans everywhere the chance to fly to the 2004 World Series. This opportunity is sitting in the updated Membership Services pages of the website.
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European Junior Fastpitch Championships, 12–17 July 2004: GB Juniors Girls and Boys both finished in sixth place in their respective competitions, maintaining the same level they achieved in the last championships in 2002.
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GB Seniors baseball team went into Friday and Saturday 0-3 in the German Baseball Open, Regensburg. A 3-1 win over a US Athletes team and 4-2 over Austria promoted them to a respectable fourth of six, one game below .500.
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After three relatively comfortable victories, the GB Juniors baseball team showed grit and determination to battle through three more gruelling games on their way to the B-Pool title in Antwerp, Belgium.
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The Under-15s baseball team went into a playoff against Croatia and Sweden for the final placings in the European Cadet Baseball Championships, Czech Republic. They lost to Croatia but took home a 9-8 victory off Sweden.
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As in the previous game, Stewart stole a base and capitalised on an error to cross homplate, at the top of the second, meaning GB took the lead in a game for the first time in the German Baseball Open tournament in Regensburg.
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The Great Britain baseball squad are currently in their first tournament since the European Championships A Pool last July. In Regensburg, Germany, new Head Coach Stephan Rapaglia has been getting a look at his players.
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German Baseball Open, Regensburg: The Great Britain baseball team worked in a couple of runs in the fourth and Trask homered in the seventh but German league All Stars won 13-3.
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The GB Juniors baseball team opened the Euro Junior Championships in Belgium with a win over Lithuania. Meanwhile, three games into their Euro campaign, the Cadets are finding it a little tough.
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Great Britain’s first-ever Under-13 (Minime) Girls’ Fastpitch Team will compete in the first-ever European Minime Championships in Collechio, Italy from August 23-28.
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A recent poll run by NASN TV network of viewers' favourite baseball teams saw the BoSox top the voting. In a close second, just five votes behind, were the New York Mets.
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All-Star youth baseball teams from 13 areas around the country travelled to London this past Saturday to compete in the Play Ball! with Frubes World Series at Northwick Park in Harrow.
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The Great Britain baseball team will participate in the German Baseball Open (GBO) Tournament in Regensburg, Germany this month for its first competitive outing of 2004.
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The talent and potential of the younger players in the Grass Roots Girls’ Fastpitch programme came to the fore at the second Grass Roots National Championships, played on Saturday, July 3 at Barn Elms Sports Centre in London.
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NASN (North American Sports Network) will be giving American sports fans two additional reasons to celebrate 4th July with a whole weekend of free viewing and two months’ free for anyone subscribing to the channel during July.
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BSUK is developing the next four-year Baseball and Softball Development (“Whole Sport”) Plan, along with a possible rounders, baseball and softball collaboration. Your views on these issues are very important and will help shape future plans.
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Sunday, 6 June: British teams filled second, third and fourth places in the eight-team international women’s fastpitch event, a festival of high-class softball.
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NASN (North American Sports Network) is offering their viewers the opportunity to shape the NASN schedule and select some of the live games to be broadcast on the channel through a new regular feature known as NASN Viewers’ Choice.
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An effective collaboration between BSUK and a local rugby football union club near Coventry to create an outstanding Play Ball! with Frubes programme this year may point the way to wider collaboration between our sports in the future.
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It just maybe time for baseball and softball teams to consign the raffle ticket to the sporting dustbin! Bristol based members of the GB Softball team certainly have, instead taking to selling copies of a fundraising voucher booklet instead.
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The BSF is tackling some important long-range issues, and has set up two sub-committees: one to look at the possibility of radical changes to the structure of Co-ed Slowpitch Nationals, and to other to look at changes to softball fee structures
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The International Olympic Committee has announced that no sports will be dropped for the 2008 Games in Beijing.
Baseball, softball and modern pentathlon were in jeopardy but they have been given more time to try to preserve their Olympic status.
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