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Dundee started the game nervously with threeup and three down in the first inning. In thebottom half of the inning Hogg and Bath singledfor Hemel. However they failed to scorestranding two runners.

Hemel wonthe BBF South Division and then beatTonbridge Bobcats and Windsor in the play­offs. Dundee won the BBF Scottish Divisionand advanced to the final at the expense ofTrafford Saints and Hessle Apaches.

The weekend of 28 I 29 September saw boththe Premier Division Series Final and BBF IPONY Youth Final at the new home of theCambridge Monarchs, Coldham's Common.The Lord Mayor of Cambridge CouncillorDurrant visited the new facility on Saturday togive his support to the Monarchs. Mr JohnRoebuck, Parks and Recreation Manager forCambridge City Council threw out the first pitchfor the Premier Division final to officially openthe new ground.

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The finalists of the 1996 BBF I PONY Youthleague were the unbeaten SouthernConference champions Hemel Red Sox and theScottish champions Dundee Dragons.

In the top of the second Dundee scored fiveruns on one hit. The Hemel defence falteredmaking five errors in the inning. In the bottomof the inning Hemel went down in order,Harvey striking out the side.

Dundee scored five more in the top of the third,(ConUnued on pege 4)

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The British Baseball Federation have ninepitchers 'L' screens and 3 square firstscreens available to teams.

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Stephen Herbert also thanked the TechnicalCommissioner Barry Marshall, Umpires GalyMortimer, Frank Scherer and Brian Lakin andScorers Clive Maude and Colin Smith

Stephen Herbert, BBF President presentedtrophies to the winning teams, congratulatingthem on some excellent performances over theweekend. Jerry Foreman of the Pirates waspresented with MVP for the series, as tophome run scorer with 3, 7 RBis and taking thesave in the third game

On the pitching side, top ERAs went to Wells(Pirates) with 5.14, Smith (Warriors) with 7.50 andAbbott (Pirates) 9.64.

Top run scorers were Ackley and Bloomfield for theWarriors with 7 a piece, and Bloomfield for theWarriors and Abbott and Wells for the Warriors allhit 3 doubles.

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Top batters for the series were Perry for theWarriors with .600 and LaPointe and Foreman forthe Pirates with .545 and .538 respectively

Wells took the win for Menwith with Foremangetting a save. Despite stnking out 7 Menwithbatters, including Foreman, Darrin Ward tookthe loss for London.

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Ackley, the winning pitcher for London with 6strikeouts, helped to ensure his win when he hita grand slam home run in the 7th at his secondplate appearance that inning. Lapointe whotook the loss for Menwith recorded 7 strikeouts.

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Despite Menwith hitting 3 home runs in thegame (Wells in the 2nd, Stichberry in the 3rdand Foreman in the 7th) this was not to be theirgame. In the 2nd it looked as though Menwithwere going to score heavily when an excellentcatch by Mosca, in centre field, started a doubleplay which ended the inning. Londoncapitalised on 3 Menwith errors with someconsistent hitting in the 3rd to take the lead.Going into the 7th with the scores tied it lookedas though a third game might not be necessary.However, Lapointe for Menwith got into trouble,conceding 3 runs and leaving runners on 1stand 2nd before being relieved in quicksuccession by Carpenter, Abbott and Foreman.By the time Foreman closed the London inning13 runs had crossed the plate and a third gamewas necessary.

A final vote of thanks from everyone went to tileMenwith never lost the lead in the 2nd inning Cambridge Monarchs Baseball Club fOIFor London Darrin Ward hit a home run in the

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play involving Coldiron, Atwood and Ackley 2nd and Bloomfield hit a 3 bagger In the 4th towhich ended the inning. However the London score 3 runs. For Menwlth Foreman repliedrelief was short lived with Menwith levelling it in with a home run, scoring 2 in the 6th, to bethe 6th and finally taking the lead in the 7th followed by Lapointe with another home run Inbefore Darrin Ward, in relief of Smith, had the 8th. Foreman, having come to the moundsettled into the inning. in relief of Wells in the 8th, came to the plate InAbbott, with 6 strikeouts, took the win for the 9th to score 3 runs with yet another homeMenwith and Ward the losing pitcher for run. He followed this performance by retlnngLondon with 2 strikeouts. London's starting the first three London batters to come to thepitcher, Smith, struck out 4 batters. plate at the bottom of the 9th to clinch the game....--,...-..,--,---r-,..-.,.-"'"'T"'"--rr-----,.,--..,-..,..-, for Menwith.

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London took an early leadwhich they held until the6th inning, aided by homeruns by Bloomfield andPerry By the 5th Menwithhad reduced the lead to asingle run and looked set tocontinue and take the leadin this inning, untilSchneiter hit into a double

Thanks must go to the officials on the day,Kevin Macadam and Ian King the umpires, andBrian Holland the scorer.

MVP was Chris Outlaw of Dundee who went 3for 4, scoring three with one home run and 4RBis. He also was the winning pitcher,throwing three innings allowing one run, whilestriking out eight. For Hemel Liam Bath wasoutstanding going 2 for 3 with the bat, andpitching four innings allowing five runs whilestriking out nine batters.

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In the top of the seventh Dundee againextended their lead to 15 - 2 with runs fromHughes and Hare. Hemel pulled one back inthe bottom of the seventh through Booy, butOutlaw struck out three to clinch the win forhimself and the title for Dundee.

Trophies and medals were presented to all thefinalists, Dundee were also presented with theNational Championship banner which they willbe able to display proudly at all their homegames next season.

In the top of the sixth Dundee extended theirlead to 13 - 3 Kinnear, Farr and Outlaw scoringthe runs. In the bottom Hemel were againretired in order without scoring a run.

In the top of the fifth, Dundee scored once, Bathstriking out three to end the inning. MeanwhileOutlaw relieved Harvey who retired the side inorder striking out three.

In the top of the fourth Bath came on in relief forHemel, closing down the Dundee offence. Inthe bottom of the fourth Bath and Manningscored reducing the deficit to 10 - 2.

laking the score to 10 0 A home run by firstbaseman Outlaw being the main feature. In thehaltom half of the inning Hemel again were sentdown In order

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The next trip was with my own team, Dundee Dragons.winners of the Scollish league with 7 wins and 1 lossThis put them into the National Playoffs round oneagainst Trafford Saints in Manchester on 17 August Asit happened, I went on holiday to Greece earlier In Ihemonth and had already driven down, coincidentally, toManchester airport before the flight. I came back on Ihe15th and met Head Coach, Jim Oullaw and the team Ihenext evening at the sports club hall they were kipping inSince my girlfriend flatly refused to share a hall with 10malcontents, we stayed in a Travel Inn! The game wasaction packed and very tense with first the Saints takingthe lead then the Dragons took the lead by capping in the3rd, 4th and 5th innings. Then, it was up to the Dragonsto hold their lead as the Saints closed the difference andentered the bollom of the 7th only 3 runs down First upto bat scored a home run making the score 13-15Second was caught out with a pop up to centre fieldThird bailer got a walk and made it home on a senes 013 wild pitches. 14-15. At this point my heart was beatingso fast I thought I was about to have a heart allack! Nexlbailer struck out, 2 outs. Next 2 walked. I knew thai IIthose runners scored, it would have been all over Thenext bailer hit a pop up to 2nd base. The moment theDundee 2nd baseman caught the ball, every Dragonjumped several feet in the air accompanied by aresounding yessss! My girlfriend claims I thumpedstraight past her, causing her to fall over. All I remembelis running to the mound where all the Dundee 101 were

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Next trip was the England v Scotland youth and seniorgames at Hessle on Saturday 14 July. I travelled downwith the Dundee and Edinburgh youths by car convoy thenight before and stayed in a youth ..-------------------------'Ihostel. That was fun - I thought I wasgoing to wake up the next day with aneyebrow missing or something! Thefirst to be played was the youth game.Due to various hitches back home, theScollish side was was made up ofmainly Aberdeen Reds and DundeeDragons. They were jointly managedby Jim Outlaw, the Dragons Coachand Mike Bell, manager of the Reds.This proved to be a successfulcombination resulting in a 6-2 win forScotland. Both teams played a highstandard of baseball, but the bellerteam on the day won through with 9good solid hits and 15 strikeouts out of21 put outs. Dundee Dragons catcher,David Farr, was awarded MVP. Thesenior game was a lot different. KeithGraham's Scolland squad slaughteredthe English side by 25 runs to 5. I don'tthink the sassenachs quite knew what ... .1

First one was when Scotland youth played two games infreezing cold Preston on 14 and 15 April. Under theleadership of Craig Menzies, the Youth Team playedjuniors from the Bobcats and other nearby teams. On theSaturday the first game started half an hour after wearrived and the Scotland team were capped in the first 2innings, resulting in an 11-6 loss. The second game wasplayed the next day. Scotland took the lead quickly witha 1st inning cap of 5 runs and dominated the rest of thegame, resulting in a win of 17-8. After spending theaftemoon in Blackpool Pleasure Land (yes, I was madenough to go on the massive Pepsi Max Roller Coaster)we headed home.

The Scollish Teams have had it lucky in previous yearswith little or no travelling south of the border. Not so thisyear. Each national team fravelled 3 times to England,while Dundee Dragons Youth went twice. I felt obligatedto travel with the teams and was at 6 out of the 8 awaygames. I travelled to all the youth games, either in mycapacity as Commissioner or as the Dundee Dragonsmanager.

It's been a funny old season for me. I havedone a lot of travelling to far off places such asPreston, Hessle, Manchester, Leeds,Cambridge and oh - not forgetting Greece.

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Thanks to the umpire for the game TomRoddick.

As Bobcats manager I have to be disappointedat the outcome but can congratulate the Tigersteam and reflect on an otherwise successful andenjoyable season.

There is no substitute for experience. Tigersalways seem to have the ability to up the tempoas and when needed to control the game and toprove the old adage that a winning team oftenscores more runs in one inning than theopposition in the whole game.

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In this one, after three closely contestedinnings, Tigers pushed across nine runs in thefourth to put the game virtually out of reach.

Liverpool's Bob Alger had a no hit shut-outgoing until Mullen singled home A Howarth forPreston with two out in the sixth to spoil it.

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One final word to the GB Coach at the British YouthSeries who said that it was the presence of some of theAmerican team. Aberdeen Reds. that won us thattournament. can rest easy. I won1 make you eat yourcap. I would suggest however. that you carry on holdingtrials for your cadet team. Unfortunately. most of theDundee Dragons Youth will be eligible to play only in thesenior team next year. Is that a phew I hear fromeveryone?

Brian EdwardsProud Manager, Dundee Dragons,BBF I Pony Youth League Champions1996

andProud Scottish Commissioner

The last visit to England was for the BBF PONY LeagueplaY-Off Final. The Dundee Dragons beat KevinMacadam's team. Hessle Apaches 8-3 in the semi finalgame at RAF Edzell on 31 August. This put the Dundeeteam in the final against Hemel Red Sox. The game wasplayed in Cambridge after Dundee travelled a"mammoth" train journey of 7 hours. We arrived thenight before (as Hessle did in the semi-final) and JimOuttaw and I took the kids to the movies. The rookiesand I went to see "Multiplicity" while Jim took the olderplayers to see "Eraser". The game started at 11 am withKevin Macadam umpiring. Other than his low strike zonewhich was consistent anyway. his umpiring wasexcellent. Chris Outlaw's 3 run homer in the 3rd inningbasically sealed Hemel's fate. Chris went in to pitch thelast 3 innings and gained 8 strikeouts compared toWayne Harvey gaining 7 strikeouts in 4 innings. Chriswas awarded MVP for the game but I must mention herethat all the other Dundee players fielded very wellallowing no (advances on) errors and offence wasequally good with 11 hits and 7 walks compared toHemel's 3 hits and 3 walks).

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fhe following week was the British Youth Series.National Teams from Scotland. Ireland. England and aUS Forces side played a round robin over two days inLeeds Ian Smyth did a marvellous job of organising it.However. we (the Scottish contingent) felt that full youthIlIles should have been followed rather than the changesmade on the day. The scores wouldn't have been so sillyand far apart if the capping existed and allowing theslealing of all bases was inconsistent with the rest of theseason. The first game we played was against our auldenemy the English. They made a fatal mistake. Theywore Great Britain unifonms and everyone knows howScottish people feel aboul an English team beingbranded ·British·. It gave our guys the .motivation to wipeIhe floor wilh their butts! Score was 24-7. Next weplayed the US Forces and won 19-8. The last game wasagainst the Irish team. The first 3 innings were close butin the last. the Scottish team scored 4 home runs and 6olher hits making it enough to demoralise the Irishdefence into making 7 errors. End resull was a third winof 30-13. I think it is easy to say that the Scottand YouthTeam of 1996 is a fonmidable team to beat. Jim Outlawmanaged the team in July and August. so thanks andcongrats to you Jim. all the practice plus the cooperationof the Dundee. Edinburgh. Aberdeen and Glasgowlearns definitely paid off.

q~thering and hugging each other. A win. A first forDundee and for Scotland That was definitely thehmdest and closest game of the playoffs.

The atmosphere at the final in Cambridge was great.Almost every BBF official was somewhere about. Theburgers at the BBQ were great. there was a BBF stall runby Wendy & Rachael Macadam and Keith Peskett wasmanning the FBI stall. Nice man. I would like to givethanks to all the organisers who made the above games

.- ... possible. Frank Caunce. Arthur Kendal. Ian Smyth.Kevin Macadam. Keith Graham. Craig Menzies and JimOutlaw are to name only a few.

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A remarkable feature of the game was the highstandard of pitching from Hales of Leeds andEverett of Windsor.

Overall this was an excellent final, withWindsor becoming the 1996 National SchoolsChampions

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However Windsor replied immediately in thebottom of the fourth scoring five themselves, asHales the Leeds pitcher struggled with hiscontrol.

In a tight fought contest Windsor took the leadin the bottom of the second scoring one run.They then held Leeds scoreless until the top ofthe fourth when Leeds scored five runs onthree hits, taking the lead 5-1 .

The final of the BBF/FBI National SchoolsChampionship was held at the home ofBirmingham Bandits on Sunday 15 September.The finalists who had fought their way throughregional qualifiers were Leeds and Windsor.

Neither team scored again until the top of theseventh when Leeds scored three, taking thelead 8-6.

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in what I would call a commanding voice,was the order, 'pitcher lei me check thaiball' Who had made the remark was not tooclear. Then further voices shouted 'yes, let'slook at it. II was Ihen that completeconfusion, bewilderment and perplexity tookover. What should he do?

I know what he did.

He did no more than to throw the ball in thedirection of the voice of command Then herealised his mistake.

The man on second took off round third andhome. The man on first was already in theprocess of stealing second and kept on goingvia second, third and home, when all calmcame. The one batter remained and he fliedout to left field. So the Flyers won 7 to 5

What of the pitcher. Oh he carried on for afew more years then moved to left field buthe never got over the ordeal and kept veryquiet about it all until now. And at long lasthas allowed his name to be printed and I canassure all who read this story that it is true,because I was that pitcher.

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Then the bottom of the ninth, and once againhe found himself the centre of attraction.First batter up hit him and got to second. Thesecond batter he struck out. The third batterwalked to first. Just two more outs, that's all,he thought. The next one went down on threestrikes, then he thought just this one.Stepping on to the rubber he felt the tensionmounting. He could feel the sweat coursingits way down his back plus the tightness in hisstomach. Just one more that's all he said tohimself.

Stepping backwards on to the rubber heprepared to pitch again, when all of a sudden,

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It is hoped that next season a total of eight teams, fourfrom each side of the Pennines will contest the Trans­Pennine Shield.

The aggregate score for the shield was Hunslet Harriers27 Cross Hall White Sox 19.

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Mr Anthony Braime of Braime Pressings presented theTrans-Pennine Shield to Harriers captain, MichaelRonaldson. The Man of the Match trophy was presentedto Cross Hall's Anthony Berridge who secured the awardwith his home run combined with quality fielding andsuperb pitching. Players from each team received amedal commemorating the game.

made an amazing come-back inspired by Craig Ollivanl's3 run homer at the top of the fifth. In a tense final inningthe Harriers scored seven runs leaving the White Soxneeding three for victory. Adam Franks struck outwithout further score and, for the second time that day,confirmed a win for Hunslet.

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In an atlempt to promote the game by providing opencornpetihon for under 14's, Braime Pressings of Leedshave sponsored the Trans-Pennine Shield. EffectivelyIhe game between Hunslet Harriers and Cross Hall WhiteSox was the first final of the competition. II comprised ofa double header played at Clapgate Playing Fields. Thewll1ner of lhe Shield was the team with the bestaggregate score over both games.

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The book can be obtained direct from BernardDay at a cost of £999 plus £1.60 p&p, from thefollowing address:

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Finally the only other criticism I have of thebook was the print font. Although it looks verypleasant, it actually made reading the workdifficult. However these are minor problems.and I urge anyone interested in the history ofbaseball to get a copy. Read and learn

Day through his research answered thequestions what, when, and how, but the key tohistorical research for me personally is why?Why did the game develop in Middlesborough.why not another similar sized town. Hopefullythis may prompt another piece of work from MrDay

For anyone interested in baseball research thisbook is a gem. Not only does it describe thestory in precise detail, by following Mr. Day'swriting, it lays down a blue print for conductingresearch into local history.

The main section of the book features baseball,but there is also information on local football aswell.

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Despite the fact that the book researchesbaseball in Middlesborough to an incrediblelevel of detail, I was still left wanting more. Mr

This thoroughly enthralling piece of work isessentially about the development of baseballin the Middlesborough area in the late part ofthe Nineteenth Century. It traces the history ofthe game in the Cleveland area through aunique collection of newspaper articles,photographs, private letters and other assortedmemorabilia and features.

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May I read from you SirYours in Sports

Although we have appealed to so many frrendsto assist us in training teachers and gamesmasters of institutions to become umpires andcoaches of the game may I extend the same toyou. If possible to sponsor and send us onetrainer to assist for at least one month

Caxton Walk Barton Square94-96 Charing Cross Road St Ann's SquareLondon WC2H OJG Manchester M2 7HATel: 0171 2409604 Tel. 0161 8328530Fax: 0171 8360104 Fax. 0161 8329391

Sir I would also like to appeal to yourAssociation and a friend of the same to sponsorme to come and learn more on organising andmanaging the game BasebalL In fact I did notget any certificate in Japan as I had only paid avisit to a church organisation there

equipment and inform us when they are readyso that we can arrange for their entry 10 Kenya

,

Hardships: Since the game is new, Kenya hasnot learnt how to make or even import theequipment. I am therefore trying with our localleather factories to first dismantle a glove andthen join. By so doing we shall learn the skilLBalls can be found but not the right size etc. Allother apparatus is difficult to get but we at leasthave a few donated to a few institutions here inKenya by a friend from USA

Request: Sir I would like to appeal to your \. Retail or Mail Orderassociation to at least find for us those old ..... ""'~

I am als'o preparing our junior team for anAfrican Tournament to be held in Lagos Nigeriain December.

Promotion of Baseball in Kenya

Sir in Kenya my people like all sports especiallyathletics. Baseball is new in Kenya butspreading very fast. I went to Japan for onemonth course to learn the game last year (1995)and now I have worked fully with myAssociation first, to train umpires, coaches andat present we are to select our National teamthis September (1996).

My association, Kenya Amateur Baseball andSoftball Association (KABSA) registered withthe IBA last year. As note in the 1996 IBRundown World BasebalL Directly thechairman is Mr Solomon Gracece, I am the vicechairman and Hudson Liyai is the ExecutiveDirector.

Dear Sir

Jiri VotinskySecretaryCzech Baseball Association

Best wishes from Prague.

Thank you for your care about our nationalteam during the European Men Championships1996. Congratulations both for your victory andgreat organisation. We look forward to meetingyour players next year in France.

Dear Friends

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The Bandits wish the Warriors the best of luck.

Yours sincerelyM S Harrold

I would like to compliment the Warriorsorganisation on the presentation of the games.The field was ready - on time - and the gamesactually started a minute or so ahead ofschedule. I was really impressed with the factthat the Warriors started their pre-game warm­up at the right time and finished at the righttime (a rare thing in my experience of travellingto play games). The games were played in afriendly, yet competitive manner. The Warriorshospitality make it a pleasure to play eventhough we were soundly beaten.

Last weekend (21/22 September 1996) theBirmingham Bandits travelled to London toplay the London Warriors in the BBF PremierLeague Play Off Semi-finaL We lost to thebetter team.

It would be interesting to know what became ofthe Ritchie's when their mission wascompleted; did they stay here or return home;could they still be alive at some great age?Presumably they were brothers or related.Certainly British baseball owes something tothem for their efforts whatever became of them.

Dear Brit-BaiL

Yours faithfullyWill Cosgrave

readers. It seems that Mr Mooresfetched some Canadian baseballplayers across the Atlantic to workin his mail-order firm in Crosbyduring 1933, specifically to instructplayers recruited from English

• Baseball (the Liverpool off-shoot ofWelsh Baseball) in the American

'- game. The Canadians were Alanand Jack Ritchie, who passed on

their knowledge at the Littlewoods SportsGround, Picton Hoad, Wavertree. In 1934league play started on Merseyside.

Dear Brrt-Ball

Barry MayfieldOld Timers Baseball Club

I have recently come across some facts aboutItle late John Moores' (the football poolstycoon) Involvement With Brrtish baseballdUring the 1930's which may be of interest to

It was only a short while ago that Hounslowwere under criticism from the GB squadManager for being unable to field a team on aSaturday - my answer to him and othermembers of the GB squad coaching staff is getyour own house in order - YQ.!! should all besetting an example for others to follow.

Dear Brrt-Ball

Orr Saturday 20 July, the LondonWolves hosted two games of what Iunderstood to be prestigiousbaseball The mornrng game wasbetween the Great Britain under18's squad and the Old Timers ofwhrch the former won by a score of24 - 4 There was much tocommend thiS game, the youngsters turned insome very good performances and there arecertainly some senior squad starts amongstthem However, what a woeful looking bunchthey were - I counted five different arrays ofuniform, even some ordinary t-shirts andshorts featured With the financial helpreceived from the BBF's coffers the four teamoffiCials and the presence of Bill Arce, I wouldhave expected a dozen sharp lookinguniforms I was always told and have read inmany books, that your uniform should becorrectly worn to create the feeling of wellbeing and to promote the team spirit, It wasIroniC that the Old Timers, who do not playleague ball were, in contrast, correctly andUniformly turned oul. There were aconsiderable number of youngsters present onthis day, who were undergoing trials for theJunior squad and or course many of theirparents also - what must they have thoughtlooking at the under 18s squad, not to mentionany casual spectators???

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