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Revision as of 06:34, 5 January 2023

This article is about American code of baseball in the UK. For the traditional codes, see British baseball. For historical use of the term baseball, see Origins of baseball.

Baseball in the United Kingdom
CountryUnited Kingdom
Governing body
Men's national team
Women's national team
First played1862
National competitions
  • British Baseball Federation
    AAA,
    AA and
    A divisions

Baseball is a growing, minor sport in the United Kingdom, with an estimated 22,500 people playing in 2020.[1]

The sport is governed by the British Baseball Federation, which runs a multi-tier national league. There are also independent regional leagues, and around 20 universities field teams currently in existence. At various times in history professionalism has existed, most notably the 1890 National League of Baseball of Great Britain.

In

1938 the Great Britain national baseball team won the Baseball World Cup, and were runners-up in the 1967 and 2007 European Baseball Championship.[2] They have also qualified for the finals of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. As of 2020 Great Britain competed internationally at under 12, under 15, under 18, under 23 and senior levels. The under 23 team placed fifth at the 2019 European Under 23 Baseball Championship.[3]

Despite relatively low numbers of participation today, historically there have been a number players born in the United Kingdom to have played in

New York Giants to the World Series
in 1951.

Major League Baseball players born in the United Kingdom

Over 90 players born in the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom and pre partition Ireland have played professionally in Major League Baseball. This does not include players born outside the United Kingdom but of British heritage or players who have played in MLB and represented the Great Britain national baseball team, but who were born outside the United Kingdom.

See also: Category:Major League Baseball players from the United Kingdom

Inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Harry Wright, born in Sheffield, was described by fellow Hall of Fame inductee, Harry Chadwick, as “the father of professional base ball” and is currently the only United Kingdom born inductee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.[6] Although not born in the United Kingdom, George Wright is another inductee of United Kingdom heritage. George is the brother of Harry, and his parents were born in England. Another Hall of Famer who can trace their ancestry back to the United Kingdom is former British national team coach Trevor Hoffman, whose mother was English and whose grandfather was a professional footballer with Southend United.[7]

Major League Baseball players who have represented the United Kingdom

Either through being born in the United Kingdom, via ancestral links to the United Kingdom or qualifying via being born in a Commonwealth member nation, a number of players with MLB experience have represented the United Kingdom internationally, via the Great Britain national baseball team. The most notable recent player is Jazz Chisholm Jr..

See also: Category:Great Britain national baseball team players

History

Origins

It is argued that modern "

British Baseball
.

Although early codes of baseball may have originated in the United Kingdom, the American code of baseball, as North Americans would understand it, started to be played in the UK as early as the 1870s and it was fully developed by 1890, when the fully professional

MLB teams have fan led dedicated fan clubs in the United Kingdom.[13]

American influence in the 19th century

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In the 1870s, baseball teams from the United States, including the

Boston Red Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics, toured the United Kingdom, in an effort to popularise the sport,[14] but with limited success. At that time, John Wisden and Co. were the most famous supplier of essential baseball equipment, "as used by the baseball clubs now in England in all their matches", which shows that organised clubs did exist in England in some form as early as the 1870s.[15] Wisden remains a prominent name in international cricket
today.

In 1888 the President of St. Louis, on returning to the United States from their European tour, remarked that "England is now educated up to American sports", and encouraged other American baseball club presidents to continue promoting the game in England.[16] Later in 1888, John Barnes, of the Western League St. Paul club, discussed his plans to travel to England to establish a "baseball syndicate" in London, Birmingham and other large cities.[17]

In 1889 the wealthy

Oval,[19] and over 8,000 attended a game at Lord's.[20] On arriving at Bristol, Spalding paid tribute to the English cricket star W. G. Grace,[21]
"the best known Englishman in the world".

Derby Baseball Club
were one of Britain's leading baseball teams in the 1890s

This tour led to a number of new baseball clubs springing up, such as York Baseball Club, formed at Stotts Refreshment Rooms in Parliament Street as early as March 1889.[22] The most notable of these new clubs was formed 1890, in Derby, as Ley's Recreation Club, by Francis Ley, a local man who had experienced the game on a trip to the United States. Following their first ever game (as Ley's Recreation Club) Ley began to appeal for "professionals aged 20 to 25" and "cricketers who can field smartly" to attend Ley's Recreation Centre to form a club, in March 1890[23] and Ley's Recreation Club became Derby Baseball Club. Despite evidence showing clubs such as York were formed slightly earlier than or at the same time as Derby, Ley erroneously claimed "we were really the first club formed in Great Britain" when discussing Derby in 1890.[24]

Ley, who certainly had "introduced baseball amongst his employees"[25] and was instrumental in providing superb facilities at Derby, was not in attendance in October 1889, when noted supporters of a new National League of Baseball of Great Britain met at the Criterion, London, to formally establish the new baseball association, though he was elected as a provisional officer. Representatives of Preston North End, Gloucester County Cricket Club, Essex County Cricket Club, Staffordshire County Cricket Club, Aston Villa and the National Rounders Association all were represented and elected as officers to the association, with Newton Crane elected to the chair.[25]

The new association quickly moved to establish a headquarters at 38 Holborn Viaduct, London, from where it would agree on and promote a set of rules by which the new National League would be played.[26] By July 1890 it was estimated that there were over 90 baseball clubs in England alone, with Derby Baseball Club being widely believed to be the best professional club in England.[27] Yorkshire proved to be a surprising hotbed of baseball by 1890 when it was reported that "there are more baseball clubs in Yorkshire than in any other county in England."[28] It was not totally unexpected when the Secretary of Essex County Cricket Club, Morton Peto Betts, resigned his position to take up the role of Secretary of the newly formed Baseball Association of Great Britain, in July 1890.[29]

Derby Baseball Club did lead the championship, however, pressure from other teams in the league over the number of American players on the Derby team and low attendances led to Derby being expelled before the end of the season, though at the time the club insisted they had "retired" as champions,[32]
despite evidence to the contrary.

In response to the accusations against Derby of employing too many talented American baseball players, Ley wrote letters to editors of newspapers to state "Derby Baseball Club is the only one of the four League clubs to have not imported professional players from America" and went to lengths to point out the lack of support Spalding provided to Derby compared to the other clubs, which he was a major shareholder in.[24] Ironically, given the finger pointing at Ley for employing too many talented Americans, of the various American baseball players sent across to coach and play baseball in England, in the 1890 season, the most prominent was arguably Preston North End captain Leech Maskrey, who had played Major League Baseball. In August 1890 the Preston club organised a presentation for their captain, who was returning to the United States.[33] Meanwhile, Spalding turned his attention to establishing collegiate baseball in the United Kingdom[34] with very little success.

In March 1890 Edinburgh Northern Baseball Club began to meet for practice[35] and Spalding's influence was obvious when The Spalding Baseball Club of Aberdeen sprung to life in July 1890, their headquarters being at 59 Princes Street.[36] By August 1890 the financial backing of Spalding resulted in two local rivals emerging in Aberdeen, the Spalding Baseball Club and Aberdeen Baseball Club, who played at The Links. The two competed for the Spalding 50 guinea Challenge Cup[37] and the right to take on the University Baseball Club of Edinburgh, evidence of Spalding's desire to establish collegiate baseball in the United Kingdom. Wales, possibly due to the continued popularity of British or Welsh Baseball, was slower to adopt the American game. In April 1893 The Cardiff Central were formed, and claimed to organise "the first game of American baseball played in South Wales." They were based at Grangetown.[38]

The Golden Age and Postwar Decline

Baseball's peak popularity in Britain was in the years immediately preceding

Sir John Moores
, established the National Baseball Association and continued to fund the establishment of amateur and professional leagues in England.

With this golden age UK baseball achieved a major milestone, in 1938, with the victory of the Great Britain national baseball team over the United States, in the Baseball World Cup. The series was created by Sir John Moores, with the 1939 Amateur World Series competition initially being named the John Moore's Cup.

With the backing of Sir John Moores a Great Britain team was given financial support to compete in the 1939 series, in Havana, as defending champions. In doing so they would have become the first national representative team to compete outside the United Kingdom[39] but the outbreak of the Second World War interrupted the development of British baseball, the team withdrew and the sport entered into decline. Following the war, in July 1951, Wolsley Athletic (Birmingham) became the first baseball team from the United Kingdom to play in continental Europe, in an official game, in Belgium.[40]

At present

As of the 2021 season, there were 90 teams from 48 baseball clubs actively participating in leagues, and 1,500 adult and Junior (under 18) players competing for clubs based across a wide geographic area, of the island of

P.J. Conlon are able to qualify to play for both Ireland and the United Kingdom
internationally.

The

South West of England, plus one team in Wales. There is also a full Great Britain Baseball Programme which comprises the Great Britain Baseball Academy,[41]
junior national teams and Great Britain 'Seniors' Baseball Team.

The BBF league format is divided into the national divisions, consisting of four tiers from the National League, down to the Single-A league. At the end of the season, all divisions compete in post-season tournaments where the top teams from each conference play knockout matches, with the winning teams then progressing to the Championship Series. The Championship Series of the National League is best of three; the AAA, AA and A championships are single games.

The Independent leagues compete against the teams in their own leagues, and in 2017 the first Independent leagues finals weekend was held at Hull, which consisted of semi-finals between the champions of the Independent leagues and a final held the next day. This was followed by an England v Scotland friendly All-Star game.

University baseball in the United Kingdom has also been growing, with 20 universities with clubs at the end of the 2015/16 season: Cambridge, Coventry, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, Hull, Imperial, Leeds Beckett, Leeds Gryphons Baseball Club, Loughborough, Manchester Metropolitan University (Cheshire), Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University, Sheffield, Southampton, Stirling, Swansea, UCL and University of East Anglia. The university season runs from September to May, the typical off-season for the sport. Without a

British Universities & Colleges Sport
(BUCS) league, teams compete in the National University Baseball Championships (NUBC) tournament, which happens twice a year, in the spring and the autumn and is run by BaseballSoftballUK (BSUK). The Spring 2016 Champions were Loughborough, who had won the past 3 NUBC tournaments. Despite not having a BUCS league, a Northern University Baseball League was set up for the 2015/16 season, and was planned to expand and be renamed to the National University Baseball League, and have a similar set up to the BBF leagues.

National Baseball Champions

Season Winners Score Runners-up Comments
1890 Aston Villa
Preston North End
 No playoff
1892 Middlesbrough 25–16 St. Thomas's
1893 Thespian London 33–6 Darlington St. Augustine's
1894 Thespian London 38–14 Stockton-on-Tees
1895 Derby Baseball Club 20–16 Fullers
1896 Wallsend-On-Tyne 16–10 Remingtons
1897 Derby Baseball Club 30–7 Middlesbrough
1899 Derby Baseball Club 14–3 Nottingham Forest
1900 Nottingham Forest 17–16 Derby Baseball Club
1906 Tottenham Hotspur
1907 Clapton Orient 8–7 Fulham
1908 Tottenham Hotspur 6–5 Leyton
1909 Clapton Orient 6–4 Leyton
1910 Brentford 20–5
West Ham United
1911 Leyton 6–5 Crystal Palace
1934 Hatfield 13–12 Albion
1935 New London 7–1 Rochdale Greys
1936 White City 9–5 Catford Saints
1937 Hull 5–1 Romford Wasps
1938 Rochdale Greys 1–0 Oldham Greyhounds 15 innings
1939 Halifax 9–5 Rochdale Greys
1948 Liverpool Robins 13–0 Thames Board Mills
1949 Hornsey Red Sox 10–5 Liverpool Cubs
1950 Burtonwood Bees 23–2 Hornsey Red Sox
1951 Burtonwood Bees 9–2 Ruislip Rockets
1959 Thames Board Mills 12–4 East Hull Aces
1960 Thames Board Mills 6–1 Liverpool Tigers
1962 Liverpool Tigers 8–3 East Hull Aces
1963 East Hull Aces 8–3 Garringtons
1965 Kingston Aces 4–2 Stretford Saints
1966 Stretford Saints 3–1 Liverpool Aces
1967 Liverpool Yankees 4–2 Beckenham Bluejays
1968 Hull Aces 4–1 Hull Royals
1969 Watford-Sun Rockets 8–7 Liverpool Trojans 11 innings
1970 Hull Royals 3–1 Hull Aces
1971 Liverpool Tigers 8–3 Hull Aces
1972 Hull Aces 6–4 Hull Royals
1973 Burtonwood Yanks 23–3 Hull Aces
1974 Nottingham Lions 5–3 Hull Royals
1975 Liverpool Tigers 5–3 Nottingham Lions
1976 Liverpool Trojans 5–4 Spirit Of '76
1977 Golders Green Sox 9–5 Hull Aces
1978 Liverpool Trojans 14–12 Crawley Giants
1979 Golders Green Sox 9–7 Hull Aces
1980 Liverpool Trojans 12–1 Hull Aces
1981 London Warriors 23–1 Hull Aces
1982 London Warriors 16–7 Liverpool Trojans
1983 Cobham Yankees 10–3 Hull Mets
1984 Croydon Blue Jays 9–8 Hull Mets
1985 Hull Mets 10–8 London Warriors
1986 Cobham Yankees 12–5 Hull Mets
1987 Cobham Yankees 6–0 Southglade Hornets
1988 Cobham Yankees 16–1 Burtonwood Braves
1989 Enfield Spartans 15–9 Sutton Braves
1990 Enfield Spartans 22–3 Hull Mets
1991 Enfield Spartans 9–7, 2–4, 4–1 London Athletics Spartans won 2 games to 1
1992 BBF Leeds City Royals Humberside Mets Awarded championship by walkover
1992 NL London Warriors 23–0, 5–4 Enfield Spartans Warriors won 2 games to 0
1993 BBF Humberside Mets and Chicksands Indians Title decider not played
1993 NL London Warriors 2–1 Enfield Spartans
1994 BBF Humberside Mets 2–3, 10–0, 8–0 Essex Arrows Mets won 2 games to 1
1994 NL Enfield Spartans 8–5 Waltham Forest Angels
1995 Menwith Hill Pirates 3–2, 7–6 London Warriors Pirates won 2 games to 0
1996 Menwith Hill Pirates 14–9, 11–23, 18–12 London Warriors Pirates won 2 games to 1
1997 London Warriors 11–5, 31–12 Kingston-upon-Hull Cobras Warriors won 2 games to 0
1998 Menwith Hill Patriots 13–5, 17–15 London Warriors Patriots won 2 games to 0
1999 Brighton Buccaneers 16–4 Windsor Bears
2000 London Warriors 11–7 Brighton Buccaneers
2001 Brighton Buccaneers 8–5 Windsor Bears
2002 Brighton Buccaneers 5–1 Windsor Bears
2003 Windsor Bears 9–4 Brighton Buccaneers
2004
Croydon Pirates
 12–10 Windsor Bears
2005
Croydon Pirates
 11–4, 10–9 Brighton Buccaneers Pirates won 2 games to 0
2006
Richmond Flames
 7–11, 8–5, 9–0 Croydon Pirates Flames won 2 games to 1
2007 London Mets 7–2, 11–1 Croydon Pirates Mets won 2 games to 0
2008 London Mets 11–4 Richmond Flames
2009 Bracknell Blazers 16–4 Richmond Flames
2010
Richmond Flames
 10–1 Bracknell Blazers
2011 Harlow Nationals 13–3 Lakenheath Diamondbacks
2012 Harlow Nationals 6–3 Herts Falcons
2013 Southern Nationals 12–7 Southampton Mustangs
2014 Essex Arrows 5–1, 5–4 London Mets Arrows won 2 games to 0
2015 London Mets 6–2, 11–2 Southampton Mustangs Mets won 2 games to 0
2016 Southampton Mustangs 0–1, 7–3, 9–4 London Mets Mustangs won 2 games to 1
2017
 London Mets 15–14, 6–0 Southampton Mustangs Mets won 2 games to 0
2018 London Mets 16–1, 11–1 Herts Falcons Mets won 2 games to 0
2019 London Mets 14–4 London Capitals
2020 London Mets 9–1 London Capitals
2021 London Mets
2022 London Mets[42] 9–4[43] London Capitals

Championships by Region

Region Number of
championships 		Towns/Cities
London 35 London (35)
North West 16 Liverpool (9), Warrington (3), Preston (1), Rochdale (1), Stretford (1)
Yorkshire and the Humber 14 Hull (9), Harrogate (3), Halifax (1), Leeds (1)
South East 10 Cobham (4), Brighton (3), Bracknell (1), Southampton (1), Windsor (1)
East of England 7
Waltham Abbey (1), Watford
(1)
East Midlands 5 Derby (3), Nottingham (2)
North East 2 Middlesbrough (1), Newcastle (1)
West Midlands 1 Birmingham (1)
Scotland –
South West –
Wales –

League System (2021)

Due to the large turnover of teams (from baseball currently not being a professional sport in the United Kingdom), the league structure changes every season. For 2021, the format is the following:

Level

League(s)/Division(s)

BBF and Affiliated Leagues
1

BBF National Baseball League
6 teams from 4 clubs

2

BBF Triple-A Division South
7 teams from 6 clubs

BBF Triple-A Division South West
4 teams from 4 clubs

3

BBF Double-A Division Central
6 teams from 6 clubs

BBF Triple-A Division South East
6 teams from 5 clubs

4

BBF Single-A Division Central 6 teams from 3 clubs
BBF Single-A Division South 6 teams from 4 clubs
BBF Single-A Division South East 6 teams from 4 clubs

South West and Wales Baseball League – Severn Division
4 teams from 3 clubs

South West and Wales Baseball League – Wessex Division
4 teams from 4 clubs

Unaffiliated Leagues
1

BBL Northern Baseball League Triple-A Division
4 teams from 4 clubs

Scottish National League
6 teams from 4 clubs

Westcountry Baseball League
5 teams from 5 clubs

West Midlands Baseball League
7 teams from 7 clubs

2

BBL Northern Baseball League Double-A Division
4 teams from 4 clubs

3

BBL Northern Baseball League Single-A Division
6 teams from 4 clubs

2021 Clubs

Note: This list does not contain clubs who failed to opt in to the 2021 league system and are officially listed as inactive. Youth teams are also not included.

Club Team Name City/Area Ballpark Division Club Founded
   
   
Aberdeen BC 		Granite City Oilers Aberdeen, Aberdeen George W. Chalmers Field SNL 2013
Aberdeen Thistles New entry Women – Scotland
   
   
BC Vetra 		BC Vetra Increase Saltford, Somerset Wedmore Road AAA – South West 2020
   
   
Belles Baseball 		Belles Baseball New entry Slough, Berkshire Farnham Park Women – England 2021
   
   
Birmingham Metalheads BC 		Birmingham Metalheads New entry Birmingham, West Midlands Marston Green Recreational Ground WMBL 2021
   
   
Bournemouth Bears BC 		Bournemouth Bears Ferndown, Dorset Ferndown Leisure Centre AAA – South West 2018
Bournemouth Bears (A) SWWBL – Severn
   
   
Bracknell B&SC 		Bracknell Inferno Bracknell, Berkshire Westmorland Park A – South 1992
   
   
Brighton BC 		Brighton Jets Brighton and Hove, East Sussex Pavilion Field A – South 2016
Brighton Brewers New entry
   
   
Bristol BC 		Bristol Badgers Increase Keynsham, Somerset Somerdale Pavilion AAA – South West 2008
Bristol Bats Decrease SWWBL – Severn
Bristol Brunels New entry
Bristol Buccaneers Decrease SWWBL – Wessex
Bristol Bobcats New entry Women – England
   
   
Cambridge Baseball 		Cambridge Monarchs
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
 Coldhams Recreation Ground AA – Central 2011
Cambridge Valkyries New entry Women – England
   
   
Croydon Pirates Baseball
 Croydon Pirates Sutton, London Roundshaw Grounds AA – South East 1981
   
   
Cardiff Merlins Baseball 		Cardiff Merlins Increase Cardiff, Cardiff Pontcanna Fields SWWBL – Severn 2018
   
   
Cartmel Valley Lions BC 		Cartmel Valley Lions Cartmel, Cumbria Cartmel Priority School Field BBL – AAA 1993
   
   
Cornish ClayCutters BC 		Cornish ClayCutters Increase
St. Austell, Cornwall
 St Mewan School Field SWWBL – Wessex 2017
   
   
County Durham Spartans BC 		County Durham Spartans Increase Staindrop, County Durham Staindrop Academy BBL – AA 2017
   
   
East London LATIN BOYS BT 		East London LATIN BOYS
Waltham Forest, London
 Salisbury Hall Playing Field AAA – South 2011
East London LATIN BOYS (AA) AA – South East
   
   
Edinburgh BC 		Edinburgh Diamond Devils Edinburgh, Edinburgh Bobby Thompson Field SNL 1985
Edinburgh Cannons
   
   
Essex Arrows BC 		Essex Arrows
Waltham Abbey, Essex
 Townmead Leisure Park BBF NBL 1983
Essex Arrows (AAA) New entry AAA – South
Essex Archers Increase AA – Central
   
   
Glasgow BC 		Glasgow Galaxy Glasgow, Glasgow Tolcross Field SNL 1997
Glasgow Comets
   
   
Guildford B&SC 		Guildford Mavericks
Guildford, Surrey
 Christ's College AA – South East 1992
Guildford Gold Cats New entry A – South
Guildford Millers
   
   
Herts Baseball 		Herts Falcons Increase Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire Grovehill Ballpark BBF NBL 1996
Herts Hawks Increase AA – Central
Herts Eagles Increase A – Central
Herts Londoners Increase
Herts Raptors Increase
   
   
Hull Scorpions BC 		Hull Scorpions Decrease Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire Eastmount Recreation Centre BBL – A –
   
   
Kent Buccaneers BC 		Kent Buccaneers Hadlow, Kent Williams Field AAA – South 2018
Kent Buccaneers Development Team A – South East
   
   
Kent Mariners BC 		Kent Mariners Aylesford, Kent Cobdown Park A – South East -
   
   
Legends BC 		Lancashire Legends Sutton, London Roundshaw Grounds BBF NBL 2020
London Legends New entry
   
   
Leicester Blue Sox 		Leicester Blue Sox Decrease Leicester, Leicestershire Western Park WMBL 2006
   
   
Liverpool Trojans BC 		Liverpool Trojans Sefton, Merseyside Bootle Stadium BBL – AAA 1946
Liverpool Twojans BBL – AA
   
   
London Mets B&SC 		London Mets Haringey, London Finsbury Park BBF NBL 1988
London Capitals
London Mammoths AAA – South
London Marauders
London Musketeers AA – South East
London Sidewinders
London Minotaurs A – Central
London Mustangs
London Mayhem New entry Women – England
   
   
Long Eaton Storm 		Long Eaton Storm Decrease Long Eaton, Derbyshire West Park Leisure Centre WMBL 2014
   
   
Manchester BC 		Manchester As Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester Wythenshawe Park BBL – AAA 1947
Manchester Bees BBL – A
   
   
Milton Keynes BC 		Milton Keynes Bucks Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Woughton on the Green
 AA – Central 1986
   
   
Newcastle Nighthawks BC 		Newcastle Nighthawks Increase Newcastle, Tyne and Wear Gosforth Sports Association BBL – AA 2017
   
   
Norwich Baseball 		Norwich Iceni Norwich, Norfolk University of East Anglia AA – Central 2017
   
   
Oxford Kings BC 		Oxford Kings Increase Oxford, Oxfordshire Horspath Sports Ground AA – Central 1998
   
   
Redbacks BC 		Essex Redbacks Chelmsford, Essex Melbourne Park AAA – South –
Essex Redbacks (A) A – Central
   
   
Richmond B&SC 		Richmond Knights Increase Richmond upon Thames, London Flood Field AAA – South 1992
Richmond Dragons AA – South East
Richmond Dukes A – South
   
   
Sheffield Bladerunners 		Sheffield Bladerunners I Sheffield, South Yorkshire Forge Valley BBL – AAA 1985
Sheffield Bladerunners II Increase
Sheffield Bladerunners III BBL – A
   
   
Sheffield Bruins BC 		Sheffield Bruins Decrease Sheffield, South Yorkshire Thorpe Green Park BBL – AAA 2018
Sheffield Cubs New entry BBL – A
Sheffield Bruins Women New entry Women – England
   
   
South Coast Pirates BC 		South Coast Pirates Decrease Hastings, East Sussex Bexhill Park A – South East 2018
South Coast Seadogs
   
   
Stourbridge Titans BC 		Stourbridge Titans Stourbridge, West Midlands Gibson Field WMBL 2011
   
   
Taunton Muskets BC 		Taunton Muskets Decrease Taunton, Somerset Muskets Field SWWBL – Wessex 2014
   
   
Tayport Breakers BC 		Tayport Breakers Tayport, Fife Tom Waddell Memorial Baseball Field SNL 2020
   
   
Telford BC 		Telford Giants Telford, Shropshire Meadow Recreation Ground WMBL 2020
Telford 26ers New entry Women – England
   
   
Tonbridge Baseball 		Tonbridge Bobcats Tonbridge, Kent Borley Field A – South East 1982
Tonbridge Wildcats New entry
   
   
SW Rebeldes BC 		SW Rebeldes Increase Saltford, Somerset Wedmore Road AAA – South West 2020
   
   
Women's Baseball UK 		WB-UK Nomads New entry n/a – travelling team n/a Women – Scotland 2021
   
   
Weston Jets BC 		Weston Jets Increase
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset
 Hutton Moor SWWBL – Wessex 2018
   
   
Wolverhampton BC 		Wolverhampton Wolves Wolverhampton, West Midlands Colton Hills Community School WMBL 2019
   
   
Worcester BC 		Worcester Sorcerers Worcester, Worcestershire Merlin Field WMBL 2019

See also

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