GBR

British Softball Federation

Name: c/o Baseball Softball UK

Address: Home Plate, Farnham Park National Baseball & Softball Complex, Beaconsfield Road

Zip Code: SL2 3BP

City: Slough

Country: GBR

info@britishsoftball.org (Office)

s.gbr@wbsc.org (WBSC Official e-mail of the NF)

+44 7977499663 (Office)

https://www.britishsoftball.org/

Founded 1987-01-01

History

Baseball in Britain has roots that go back into the 19th century, and it is generally accepted that the game, rather than being "invented" by Abner Doubleday in the United States, actually grew out of English games including “ball and trap”, rounders and cricket. But softball has a rather shorter history in the UK. In the late 1950s, a group of ex-pat Americans, many of them involved in the film industry, started a Sunday morning men's slowpitch pick-up game in Hyde Park in the centre of London. [...]