Spartakos Glyfadas

Spartakos Glyfadas
Spartakos Glyfadas
	Hellinikon Baseball park
Founded	1979
League championships	2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Colors	Blue and White
Manager	Tom Mazarakis
Current uniforms
Home	Away

Spartakos Glyfadas is a

Greek Baseball league

where they are the current champions.

Early championship history

Spartakos participated in the first

Greek Baseball league championship in 2000 and they finished in second place behind Marousi 2004. The same year they won the inaugural Greek Baseball Cup after beating A.O. Pelopas Patron in the final 23-13. The next year, Spartakos, which had a frustrating year, struggled in the Greek league managing to finish in the fourth place in a year that saw them failing also to defend the Greek cup after being eliminated to the semifinals. In 2002 they were improved in the Greek league but they still could not beat Marousi 2004 for the title finishing in second place, although they manage to beat their archrivals in the Greek Baseball Cup

final 13-3 winning their second cup.

Championship success

After a 2003-year that saw Spartakos finish again in second place behind Marousi, Manager Tom Mazarakis shook things up by landing in some new players from the other Greek teams and with the experience that the team had earned from the first 4 seasons they managed to win their first double (and becoming the only Greek baseball club to win a double) after winning the Greek Championship series 3-1 against Ainos Kefallinias (with the last game of the series being a 9-8 thriller win) and after reclaiming the Greek cup demolishing Aris Thessaloniki in the final 23–3. The 2005 and 2006 seasons saw Spartakos successfully defending the Greek Championship by beating

European Cups qualifier that season. The next year's Greek Championship was contested in a regular season only format which meant that the champion would be the first team on the league table after the end of the regular season. Panthers Patras

, a newly created team, and Spartakos were tied for first place after the conclusion of the season but Spartakos won the championship after having won the games between the two teams in the season.

Back to back championship losses

What Panthers Patras failed to do at the 2009 season they did at 2010 when they upset the (5 times in a row) defending champions Spartakos to win the 2010 Greek title. The two contenders met at Patras on 5/2/2011 with 4 games remaining and with the two teams being tied at the top of the table. Panthers won the game 3–2 although they were trailing 0–2 till late in the game. After that loss Spartakos easily won the next game against Marousi 2004 15–4, whereas Panthers won their two next games extending their table lead by two wins making the next game for Spartakos a must win situation. The game was against third placed Eyriali who also had mathematical chances to win the title. It was a close encounter and after twelve innings Spartakos managed to score the last run and win the match 9–8. The last game of the season was against league table leaders Panthers and Spartakos needed to win by two runs or a greater margin to finish first and win the title. Spartakos took the lead early on in the game 5–2 and looked the favorite to win the game and the title. That was until the top of the seventh inning which saw Panthers score 6 runs and taking the lead 5–8 which remained till the end of the game giving Panthers their first title. Next season which had the old format of

semifinals and finals (all contested in series ) return, found Spartakos struggling to fourth place with two games remaining after losses to Aris Baseball, Marousi 2004

and Eyriali which hurt the chances of Spartakos for first place in the regular season. At the final day against third placed Eyriali, Spartakos managed to win 17–12 and took the third place at the conclusion of the regular season. Spartakos then proceeded to the finals against Marousi 2004 after beating Aris 3-0 in the semi-finals. The finals began with Marousi 2004 winning the first game of the series, then Spartakos won games two and three. Although Spartakos looked ready to win the series and reclaim the title they lost both of the remaining games and finished as runners-up to the 2011 championship.

Return to success 2012 - Present

During the 2012 pre-season Manager Tom Mazarakis brought into Spartakos some of the best players of the Greek league making Spartakos the favorite to win the championship. The first game of the season wasn't that easy for Spartakos though as underdogs

Aris Baseball

with 32–0 after a 5-inning mercy rule was applied. This 32 run difference is a new Greek league record.