WLBU Division 1 2012

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts
Grange Catholics (P)	14	11	0	3			22
Grange Albion	12	10	0	2			20
Whitechurch Robins	10	6	0	4			12
Rumney Ladies	11	5	0	6			10
Canton Cross	11	4	0	7			8
Fairwater Social	10	4	0	6			8
Gower Sports	12	4	0	8			8
Peter Lea Ospreys	14	2	0	12			4

WLBU Division 1 2013

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts
Gower Sports (P)	14	13	0	1			26
Grange Albion	14	12	0	2			24
Canton Cross	14	9	0	5			18
Whitechurch Robins	14	8	0	6			16
Fairwater Ospreys	14	4	1	9			9
Fairwater Social	14	4	1	9			9
St. Peter’s B	14	3	0	11			6
Rumney Ladies	14	2	0	12			4

WLBU Division 1 2014

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts

WLBU Division 1 2015

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts
Fairwater Ladies (C)	12	10	0	2			20
Canton Cross	12	7	0	5			14
Rumney Ladies	12	7	0	5			14
Malpas Ladies	12	5	0	7			10

WLBU Division 1 2016

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts
Fairwater Ladies (P)	9	6	2	1			14
Rumney Ladies	9	5	2	2			12
Starlets	10	4	2	4			10
Canton Cross	9	3	2	4			8
Eastern Ladies	10	0	10	0			10
Malpas Ladies	9	0	2	7			2

WLBU Division 1 2017

	P	W	D	L	RF	RA	Pts
Starlets (P)	12	12	0	0			24
Railway Ladies	12	10	0	2			20
Gower Sports B	12	6	0	6			12
Llandaff North RFC	12	6	0	6			12
St. Albans	12	5	0	7			10
Splott Sluggers	12	3	0	9			6
St. Peter’s	12	0	0	12			0

WLBU Division 1 2018

	P	W	D	L	Pct
Railway Ladies (P)	16	14	0	2	88
Caerau Nomads	16	11	0	5	69
Malpas RFC	15	10	0	5	67
St. Albans	15	10	0	5	67
Llandaff North RFC	16	8	0	8	50
Splott Sluggers	16	8	0	8	50
Fairwater Social	15	7	0	8	47
Gower Sports B	15	1	0	14	7
St. Peter’s RFC	16	1	0	15	6

Report

The Welsh Ladies Baseball Union Division 1 was the second level of Welsh Baseball from 2012 to 2018, and the Division Champions gained automatic promotion to the Premier League. The Division 1 Champions fron 2012 to 2018 were Grange Catholics (2012), Gower Sports (2013), Fairwater Ladies (2015 and 2016), Stalets (2017) and Railway Ladies (2018).

About Welsh Baseball

Welsh Baseball is a version of Rounders played primarily in South Wales, and also in Liverpool, where it is known as English Baseball. It is like a cross between Baseball, Rounders and Cricket. During the latter half of the 19th Century, the famous A.G. Spalding of Major League Baseball fame organised a Baseball Tour of England and Ireland, and in the process played a number of games against English and Welsh Rounders teams, who adopted some of the rules (such as tagging a playerout with the ball and two-handed batting). It kept the poles rather than flat bases and left the diamond in an irregular shape with all four sides unequal in length. Welsh Baseball also has a bat more like a Cricket Bat than a Baseball Bat, and it tapers towards the handle. According to sources in referenced in the articles below, Irish immigrants to Liverpool and South Wales were numerous among the Working Classes playing the game in the 20th Century. It is still played in South Wales and Liverpool but is now mostly a Children’s and Teenagers Game.

References

Logos

[1] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union Facebook Page (2017) Profile Picture April 12 2017 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/21387949710/photos/a.10154678147744711.1073741828.21387949710/10155257824239711/?type=3&theater [Accessed 30 November 2017]

Internet Archive

[2] Internet Archive – Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2014) 2012 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20120722134948/http://www.wlbu.co.uk/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=12 [Accessed 11 August 2017]

Websites

[3] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2013) 2013 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://www.wlbu.co.uk/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=13 [Accessed 17 December 2016]

[4] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2015) 2015 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2015-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[5] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2016) 2016 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2016-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[6] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2017) 2017 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2017-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[7] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2018) 2017 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2017-league-tables-2/ [Accessed 16 September 2018

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Kate Hartnett, Cardiff University.

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