Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin City Hurricanes	15	15	0	0	–	60
*Dublin Spartans	15	10	5	0	5	45
*Munster Warriors	15	7	8	0	8	36
*Belfast North Stars	15	4	11	0	11	27
Dublin Black Sox	15	4	11	0	11	27
Greystones Mariners	15	2	13	0	13	21

[2]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	A Playoffs		Game 1 (1v2)
10.09.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Dublin Spartans	11
	A Playoffs		Game 2 (3v4)
10.09.11	Munster Warriors	3	Belfast North Stars	6
	A Playoffs		Game 5 (L1vW2)
17.09.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Belfast North Stars	0
	A League Final		Best of 3
24.09.11	Dublin Spartans	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	2
24.09.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Dublin Spartans	3
01.10.11	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin City Hurricanes	2
	(Spartans won Series 2-1)

Reference: [2]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
02.04.11	Greystones Mariners	8	Dublin Spartans	9
02.04.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	6	Dublin Black Sox	2
	Week 2
09.04.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	11	Greystones Mariners	3
10.04.11	Belfast North Stars	2	Dublin Spartans	10
10.04.11	Belfast North Stars	3	Dublin Spartans	7
	Week 3;
17.04.11	Dublin Black Sox	3	Greystones Mariners	2
17.04.11	Munster Warriors	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
17.04.11	Munster Warriors	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
	Week 4
30.04.11	Belfast North Stars	8	Munster Warriors	6
30.04.11	Belfast North Stars	4	Munster Warriors	15
	Week 5
07.05.11	Munster Warriors	7	Dublin Black Sox	4
07.05.11	Munster Warriors	18	Dublin Black Sox	12
	Week 6
15.05.11	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin City Hurricanes	5
15.05.11	Belfast North Stars	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	12
	Week 7
21.05.11	Dublin Spartans	13	Dublin Black Sox	3
	Week 8
28.05.11	Dublin Black Sox	11	Belfast North Stars	1
28.05.11	Dublin Black Sox	1	Belfast North Stars	7
28.05.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	6	Dublin Spartans	5
29.05.11	Munster Warriors	7	Greystones Mariners	9
29.05.11	Munster Warriors	5	Greystones Mariners	4
	Week 9
04.06.11	Dublin Black Sox	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	14
04.06.11	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Spartans	8
	Week 10
11.06.11	Greystones Mariners	13	Munster Warriors	1
11.06.11	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin Black Sox	11
	Week 11
18.06.11	Dublin Black Sox	8	Dublin City Hurricanes	9
19.06.11	Dublin Spartans	12	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 12
25.06.11	Greystones Mariners	3	Dublin Black Sox	9
25.06.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Belfast North Stars	1
26.06.11	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Black Sox	2
26.06.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 13
09.07.11	Dublin Black Sox	8	Greystones Mariners	13
09.07.11	Dublin Spartans	10	Munster Warriors	15
09.07.11	Dublin Spartans	2	Munster Warriors	1
	Week 16
06.08.11	Dublin Black Sox	7	Dublin Spartans	17
06.08.11	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	13
	Week 17
13.08.11	Greystones Mariners	3	Belfast North Stars	5
13.08.11	Dublin Spartans	12	Munster Warriors	1
	Week 18
20.08.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Munster Warriors	4
20.08.11	Dublin Black Sox	2	Munster Warriors	6
21.08.11	Dublin Spartans	3	Belfast North Stars	0
	Week 19
27.08.11	Dublin City Hurricanes	6	Dublin Spartans	1
28.08.11	Belfast North Stars	4	Greystones Mariners	0
28.08.11	Belfast North Stars	7	Greystones Mariners	10
	Week 20
03.09.11	Munster Warriors	2	Belfast North Stars	1

Reference: [2]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

[3]

Team and Player Awards

Award	Team
A League Champions	Dublin Spartans
A League Pennant Winners	Dublin City Hurricanes
Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Tom Kelley
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Cormac Eklof
Silver Slugger Award	Jimmy Pita
Batting Champion	Jimmy Pita

Reference: [6]

Report

For the second season in-a-row the Dublin Spartans (10-5) beat the Dublin City Hurricanes (15-0) in the Final after the Hurricanes had won the League Pennant. It was especially bitter for the Hurricanes as they had gone through the season undefeated. The Munster Warriors (7-8) qualified for their first ever A League Playoffs, and the Belfast North Stars (4-11) joined them as the fourth team to make the postseason. Dublin Black Sox (4-11) and Greystones Mariners (2-13) narrowly missed out on the playoffs.

Websites

[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

[2] Baseball Ireland (2011) Irish Baseball League 2011 [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/schedule_new.php?search_year=2011&search_team= [Accessed 21 September 2016]”

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Dublin Spartans Baseball Ireland Champions 2011 [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/AFinal2011/Spartans2011_Hats_400.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin City Hurricanes	15	10	5	0	–	45
*Greystones Mariners	15	10	5	0	0	45
*Dublin Spartans	15	8	7	0	2	39
*Belfast North Stars	15	8	7	0	2	39
Dublin Black Sox	15	5	10	0	5	30
Munster Warriors	15	4	7	4	8.6	19

[2]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	A-League Final
18.09.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	2	Dublin Spartans	9
18.09.10	Dublin Spartans	6	Dublin City Hurricanes	1
	(Spartans won series 2-0)

[3]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
10.04.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Greystones Mariners	2
10.04.10	Munster Warriors	1	Dublin Spartans	0
10.04.10	Munster Warriors	8	Dublin Spartans	5
	Week 2
17.04.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Dublin Spartans	6
17.04.10	Dublin Black Sox	1	Greystones Mariners	3
	Week 3
24.04.10	Greystones Mariners	10	Dublin Black Sox	9
	Week 4
01.05.10	Munster Warriors	11	Dublin Black Sox	24
01.05.10	Munster Warriors	10	Dublin Black Sox	16
02.05.10	Greystones Mariners	10	Dublin Spartans	3
	Week 5
08.05.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Dublin Black Sox	3
09.05.10	Belfast North Stars	7	Greystones Mariners	9
09.05.10	Belfast North Stars	3	Greystones Mariners	7
	Week 6
15.05.10	Belfast North Stars	7	Munster Warriors	0 #
15.05.10	Belfast North Stars	7	Munster Warriors	0 #
15.05.10	Greystones Mariners	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	10
	Week 7
22.05.10	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin Spartans	3
22.05.10	Dublin Spartans	9	Belfast North Stars	10
	Week 8
29.05.10	Dublin Black Sox	14	Greystones Mariners	8
	Week 9
05.06.10	Dublin Spartans	10	Belfast North Stars	2
05.06.10	Dublin Black Sox	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
05.06.10	Greystones Mariners	8	Belfast North Stars	6
	Week 10
20.06.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Munster Warriors	6
20.06.10	Dublin Spartans	4	Munster Warriors	5
	Week 11
27.06.10	Dublin Black Sox	0	Dublin Spartans	5
	Week 12
10.07.10	Dublin Spartans	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	4
10.07.10	Dublin Black Sox	5	Munster Warriors	0
10.07.10	Greystones Mariners	12	Munster Warriors	0
	Week 13
17.07.10	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin Black Sox	2
17.07.10	Munster Warriors	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	21
17.06.10	Dublin Black Sox	9	Belfast North Stars	11
	Week 14
24.07.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	16	Belfast North Stars	3
24.07.10	Munster Warriors	5	Belfast North Stars	7
	Week 15
31.07.10	Belfast North Stars	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
31.07.10	Dublin Spartans	11	Dublin Black Sox	2
31.07.10	Munster Warriors	0	Greystones Mariners	7
31.07.10	Belfast North Stars	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
31.07.10	Greystones Mariners	7	Munster Warriors	0
	Week 16
07.08.10	Dublin Spartans	7	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
	Week 17
14.08.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Dublin Black Sox	5
14.08.10	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Spartans	12
	Week 18
21.08.10	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin Black Sox	0
21.08.10	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 19
28.08.10	Greystones Mariners	1	Dublin Spartans	4
28.08.10	Dublin Black Sox	2	Belfast North Stars	4

[3]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

[3]

Team and Player Awards

Award	Team
A League Champions	Dublin Spartans
A League Pennant Winners	Dublin City Hurricanes
Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Jimmy Pita
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Andrei Apostaoie
Silver Slugger Award	Carlos Fabian
Batting Champion	Carlos Fabian

Reference: [6]

Report

The Dublin Spartans won the 2010 Baseball Ireland A League Title, after beating League Pennant Winners Dublin City Hurricanes, sweeping the two-game series. Greystones Mariners (10-5) and Belfast North Stars (8-7) also qualified for the playoffs, the NorthStars for the first time ever, in their best season to date. The Dublin Black Sox (5-10) and Munster Warriors (4-7-4) were the other two teams in what was the most competitive season in the Irish Baseball League in years.

About

The 2010 Baseball Ireland A League was the 14th season of the Irish Baseball League and the 5th of the A League since the League was split into A & B Leagues in 2006. It featured 6 teams, a return to 2008 levels, after the addition of the Munster Warriors, based in Limerick, who had won Promotion after winning the B League in 2009.

Websites

[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

[2] – Wayback Machine Internet Archive (2010) Ladder [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://websites.sportstg.com/nfnn/rpt_ladder.cgi?results=N&round=18&client=1-7884-0-108844-0&pool=1 [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[3] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2011) 2011 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20110716140650/http://www.baseballireland.com/spulse.html [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Spartans 2010 Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Spartans_2010_Champs_Sml.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Tom Kelley & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin City Hurricanes	16	13	3	0	–	55
*Dublin Spartans	16	10	6	0	3	46
*Dublin Black Sox	16	10	6	0	3	46
*Greystones Mariners	16	7	9	0	6	37
Belfast North Stars	16	0	13	3	14.5	10

[2][Adjusted]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Playoffs
26.09.09	Dublin Black Sox	W	Greystones Mariners	L
26.09.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	W	Dublin Spartans	L
	Semi-Final
	Dublin Black Sox	0	Greystones Mariners	1
	A-League Final
	Dublin Spartans	W	Dublin Hurricanes	L

[2]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
18.04.09	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin Spartans	7
18.04.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Dublin Black Sox	0
	Week 2
25.04.09	Dublin Black Sox	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	9
26.04.09	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Spartans	8
26.04.09	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin Spartans	11
	Week 3
02.05.09	Dublin Spartans	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	12
03.05.09	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin Black Sox	13
03.05.09	Belfast North Stars	3	Dublin Black Sox	7
	Week 4
09.05.09	Greystones Mariners	3	Dublin Black Sox	9
	Week 5
23.05.09	Greystones Mariners	8	Belfast North Stars	4
23.05.09	Dublin Spartans	6	Belfast North Stars	3
	Week 6
30.05.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Dublin Spartans	4
	Week 7
06.06.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	4	Belfast North Stars	0
06.06.09	Dublin Black Sox	7	Belfast North Stars	0
06.06.09	Greystones Mariners	0	Dublin Spartans	0
	Week 8
13.06.09	Belfast North Stars	4	Greystones Mariners	18
13.06.09	Belfast North Stars	3	Greystones Mariners	18
13.06.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	9	Dublin Black Sox	8
	Week 9
20.06.09	Dublin Spartans	12	Dublin Black Sox	1
20.06.09	Greystones Mariners	9	Dublin City Hurricanes	10
	Week 10
27.06.09	Dublin Black Sox	7	Greystones Mariners	3
	Week 11
04.07.09	Dublin Spartans	0	Greystones Mariners	0
04.07.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Greystones Mariners	0
	Week 12
12.07.09	Dublin Black Sox	11	Dublin City Hurricanes	1
	Week 13
18.07.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	2	Dublin Spartans	3
18.07.09	Dublin Black Sox	0	Greystones Mariners	1
	Week 14
26.07.09	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin City Hurricanes	6
26.07.09	Belfast North Stars	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	16
	Week 15
01.08.09	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Black Sox	5
01.08.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	9	Dublin Spartans	8
	Week 16
08.08.09	Dublin Black Sox	2	Dublin Spartans	1
08.08.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Greystones Mariners	11
	Week 17
15.08.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Belfast North Stars	0 #
15.08.09	Dublin Black Sox	7	Belfast North Stars	0 #
15.08.09	Dublin Spartans	5	Greystones Mariners	6
	Week 18
22.08.09	Dublin Spartans	7	Dublin Black Sox	5
22.08.09	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	10
	Week 19
29.08.09	Dublin Spartans	8	Belfast North Stars	0
29.08.09	Greystones Mariners	13	Belfast North Stars	3
	Week 20
05.09.09	Dublin Black Sox	8	Dublin Spartans	4
05.09.09	Dublin City Hurricanes	8	Greystones Mariners	7
	Week 21
12.09.09	Dublin Spartans	5	Greystones Mariners	4
12.09.09	Greystones Mariners	0	Dublin Spartans	2

[3]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

[3]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Andy Martin
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Comac Eklof

Reference: [6]

Report

The Dublin Spartans (10-6) won the 2009 A League Final against the Dublin City Hurricanes, after the Hurricanes had won the League with a 13-3 Record. Dublin Black Sox (10-6) and Greystones Mariners (7-9) also qualified for the Playoffs. The Belfast North Stars took the wooden spoon, losing all 16 matches.

About

The 2009 Baseball Ireland A League season was the 13th year of the Irish Baseball League and the 4th since the League was split into two levels (A & B) in 2006. There were five teams in the A League – one down from 2008 as the Dublin City Indios never returned. The five teams played each other four times for a balanced 16 game schedule, with the top four qualifying for the Playoffs.

Websites

[1] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2009) 2009 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20090914164640/http://www.baseballireland.com:80/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[3] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2009) 2009 Adult Irish Baseball League – Results to Date [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20090927104356/http://www.baseballireland.com:80/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Spartans 2009 Irish Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Spartans-Champions-2009.gif [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin Spartans	14	12	2	0	–	50
*Dublin City Hurricanes	14	10	5	0	2	45
*Dublin Black Sox	15	10	5	0	2	45
*Greystones Mariners	15	7	8	0	5	36
Dublin City Indios	14	3	11	0	9	23
Belfast NorthStars	15	1	9	5	12.5	8

[2][Adjusted]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Playoffs 1st Round		Corkagh Park
13.09.08	Dublin Spartans	1	Dublin City Hurricanes	2
13.09.08	Dublin Black Sox	3	Greystones Mariners	6
	Playoffs 2nd Round		Corkagh Park
21.09.08	Dublin Spartans	5	Greystones Mariners	0
	Championship Series		Corkagh Park
27.09.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	2	Dublin Spartans	7
27.09.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	1	Dublin Spartans	5
	(Spartans won series 2-0)

[2]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
05.04.08	Dublin Spartans	3	Dublin Black Sox	0
05.04.08	Greystones Mariners	9	Belfast North Stars	6
	Week 2
12.04.08	Greystones Mariners	5	Dublin Black Sox	10
12.04.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	8	Dublin City Indios	3
12.04.08	Belfast North Stars	0	Dublin Spartans	0
	Week 3
19.04.08	Dublin City Indios	11	Belfast North Stars	13
19.04.08	Dublin City Indios	9	Belfast North Stars	6
19.04.08	Greystones Mariners	8	Dublin City Hurricanes	9
20.04.08	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin Black Sox	0
	Week 4
26.04.08	Dublin City Indios	3	Dublin Black Sox	4
	Week 5
03.05.08	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Indios	1
04.05.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Dublin Black Sox	4
	Week 6
10.05.08	Dublin City Indios	6	Greystones Mariners	15
10.05.08	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin Spartans	16
	Week 7
17.05.08	Dublin Black Sox	5	Greystones Mariners	3
18.05.08	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Indios	1
	Week 8
24.05.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	9	Greystones Mariners	6
	Week 9
31.05.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Dublin Spartans	13
31.05.08	Belfast North Stars	2	Dublin Black Sox	7
31.05.08	Dublin Black Sox	5	Belfast North Stars	3
	Week 10
07.06.08	Dublin Spartans	4	Greystones Mariners	1
07.06.08	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin City Hurricanes	22
07.06.08	Dublin Black Sox	6	Dublin City Indios	0
	Week 11
14.06.08	Dublin City Indios	10	Dublin City Hurricanes	5
14.06.08	Dublin Black Sox	12	Dublin Spartans	6
	Week 12
28.06.08	Greystones Mariners	11	Belfast North Stars	8
28.06.08	Greystones Mariners	13	Belfast North Stars	4
	Week 14
19.07.08	Greystones Mariners	2	Dublin Spartans	6
19.07.08	Dublin City Indios	4	Dublin Black Sox	5
	Week 15
26.07.08	Greystones Mariners	7	Dublin Black Sox	8
26.07.08	Dublin Spartans	9	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
	Week 16
02.08.08	Dublin City Indios	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	16
	Week 17
09.08.08	Dublin Black Sox	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
10.08.08	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin City Indios	6
	Week 18
16.08.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Belfast North Stars	0 #
16.08.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Belfast North Stars	0 #
	Week 19
23.08.08	Dublin Spartans	7	Dublin City Hurricanes	3
23.08.08	Dublin Black Sox	7	Belfast North Stars	0 #
24.08.08	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin City Indios	2
24.08.08	Greystones Mariners	13	Dublin City Indios	1
	Week 20
30.08.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	20	Dublin Black Sox	10
30.08.08	Greystones Mariners	7	Dublin Spartans	1
	Week 21
06.09.08	Dublin City Hurricanes	c	Greystones Mariners	c
07.09.08	Dublin City Indios	c	Dublin Spartans	c

[3]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin City Indios	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

[3]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Cristi
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Niall Rowen

Reference: [6]

Report

The Dublin Spartans repeated as A League Champions, defeating the Dublin City Hurricanes by two games to nil after also winning the League Pennant with a 12-2 Win-Loss Record. Hurricanes (10-5), Dublin Black Sox (10-5) and Greystones Mariners (7-8) were the other qualifiers for the Playoffs. Dublin City Indios (3-11) and Belfast North Stars (1-14 including 5 forfeits) were the other teams in the League.

About

The 2008 Baseball Ireland A League was the 12th season of the Irish Baseball League and the 3rd of the A League after the League was split into two levels in 2006. Teams played each other three times for a balanced 15-game schedule with the top four qualifying for the playoffs. There were six teams in the A League as in 2007, with the Dublin City Indios replacing the Twins.

Websites

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2008) 2008 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20081017051201/http://www.baseballireland.com:80/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[3] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2008) 2008 Adult Irish Baseball League – Results to Date [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20081006223339/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Dublin Spartans National Champions 2008 [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Spartans_2008.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin City Hurricanes	15	11	4	0	–	48
*Dublin Spartans	15	12	0	3	0.5	45
*Dublin Black Sox	14	9	5	0	1	41
*Greystones Mariners	15	8	7	0	2.5	39
Belfast North Stars	14	4	7	3	8	20
Twins	15	0	13	2	11.3	11

[2][Adjusted]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Final 1		(1v2)
08.09.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	2	Dublin Spartans	11
	Semi-Final 2		(3v4)
09.09.07	Dublin Black Sox	3	Greystones Mariners	4
	Semi-Final 3		(SF1 Loser v SF2 Winner)
09.09.07	Greystones Mariners	9	Dublin City Hurricanes	16
	Final		(SF1 Winner v SF 3 Winner)
15.09.07	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	6
15.09.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Dublin Spartans	4
	League Final		Corkagh Park
22.09.07	Dublin Spartans	14	Dublin City Hurricanes	5

[2]Note: All Matches played in Corkagh Park, Clondalikin, Dublin.

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
14.04.07	Twins	7	Belfast North Stars	12
14.05.07	Twins	7	Belfast North Stars	13
14.05.07	Dublin Black Sox	16	Greystones Mariners	7
15.05.07	Dublin Spartans	11	Dublin City Hurricanes	6
	Week 2
21.05.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Greystones Mariners	6
21.05.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Dublin Spartans	0
22.05.07	Twins	0	Dublin Black Sox	18
	Week 3
28.04.07	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Black Sox	26
28.04.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Twins	0
29.04.07	Dublin Spartans	9	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 4
05.05.07	Greystones Mariners	21	Twins	6
05.05.07	Belfast North Stars	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
05.05.07	Dublin Black Sox	0	Dublin Spartans	6
	Week 5
19.05.07	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Spartans	10
20.05.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	6	Dublin Black Sox	13
	Week 6
26.05.07	Dublin Black Sox	5	Greystones Mariners	2
26.05.07	Twins	1	Dublin City Hurricanes	18
27.05.07	Dublin Spartans	15	Belfast North Stars	2
	Week 7
02.06.07	Dublin Spartans	7	Twins	0
03.06.08	Greystones Mariners	–	Belfast North Stars	–
	Week 8
09.06.07	Twins	0	Dublin Spartans	7
10.06.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	14	Greystones Mariners	9
	Week 9
16.06.07	Dublin Spartans	11	Dublin City Hurricanes	1
16.06.07	Dublin Black Sox	17	Twins	1
16.06.07	Belfast North Stars	–	Greystones Mariners	–
	Week 10
23.06.07	Twins	2	Greystones Mariners	13
23.06.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
24.06.07	Dublin Spartans	6	Dublin Black Sox	2
	Week 11
07.07.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	15	Dublin Black Sox	13
07.07.07	Belfast North Stars	–	Greystones Mariners	–
08.07.07	Dublin Spartans	20	Twins	3
	Week 12
14.07.07	Dublin Black Sox	2	Dublin City Hurricanes	3
	Week 13
21.07.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Twins	0
	Week 14
28.07.07	Greystones Mariners	6	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
28.07.07	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Spartans	0
28.07.07	Belfast North Stars	7	Dublin Spartans	0
28.07.07	Dublin Black Sox	8	Twins	1
	Week 15
04.08.07	Dublin Black Sox	16	Belfast North Stars	8
04.08.07	Twins	0	Belfast North Stars	0
	Week 16
11.08.07	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Spartans	9
11.08.07	Dublin Black Sox	7	Belfast North Stars	0
11.08.07	Twins	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
	Week 17
18.08.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	22	Belfast North Stars	7
18.08.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Belfast North Stars	0
18.08.07	Greystones Mariners	8	Twins	3
18.08.07	Dublin Black Sox	9	Dublin Spartans	15
	Week 18
25.08.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Dublin Spartans	0
25.08.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Greystones Mariners	15
25.08.07	Belfast North Stars	4	Greystones Mariners	10
	Week 19
01.09.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Greystones Mariners	7
01.09.07	Belfast North Stars	0	Greystones Mariners	7
01.09.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Twins	1
01.09.07	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Twins	6
02.09.07	Dublin Black Sox	0	Greystones Mariners	0

[3]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Twins	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin

[3]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Andrei Apostaoie
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Andrei Apostaoie

Reference: [6]

Report

The Dublin Spartans won the 2007 Baseball Ireland A League Final, beating Dublin City Hurricanes 16-5. They had finished runners-up to the Hurricanes during the regular season, with no losses, however, three forfeits, from 15 matches. The Hurricanes had won 11 of their 15 matches to take the A League Pennant. Also qualifyng for the Playoffs were the Dublin Black Sox (9-5) and Greystones Mariners (8-7). The Belfast North Stars (4-7-3) and Twins (0-12-3) failed to make the Playoffs.

About

The 2007 Baseball Ireland A League was the 11th season of the Irish Baseball League, and the second of the A League following the split into two levels in 2006. It featured the same six teams as in 2006, with each team playing each other team three times for a balanced 15-game schedule, after which the top four teams qualified for the Playoffs, with the Top two playing in one semi-final (1v2) to determine who progressed to the Final, and teams ranked three and four playing an elimination semi-final (3v4) to see who would go forward to meet the losers of the first semi-final in the third semi-final (SF1 Losers v SF2 Winners). The winners of the first semi-final (1v2) and third semi-final (SF1 Losers v SF2 Winners) met in the best-of-three Final.

Websites

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2007) 2007 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20071006034356/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[3] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2007) 2007 Adult Irish Baseball League – Results to Date [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20071031030732/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Spartans 2007 Irish National League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Spartans_CHAMPS_2007.gif [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Dublin Spartans	15	12	3	0	–	51
*Dublin Black Sox	14	10	4	0	1.5	44
Greystones Mariners	15	8	7	0	4	40
Dublin City Hurricanes	14	8	6	0	3.5	38
Twins	13	5	8	0	6	28
Belfast North Stars	13	1	11	1	10.6	14

[2]

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	League Championship		Corkagh Park
09.09.06	Dublin Spartans	3	Dublin Black Sox	0
16.09.06	Dublin Black Sox	8	Dublin Spartans	15
	(Spartans won series 2-0)

[2]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
08.04.06	Dublin Black Sox	9	Twins	8
08.04.06	Dublin Spartans	6	Greystones Mariners	2
08.04.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	8	Belfast North Stars	7
	Week 2
15.04.06	Dublin Spartans	8	Greystones Mariners	3
15.04.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	1	Twins	19
15.04.06	Belfast North Stars	10	Dublin Black Sox	9
	Week 3
22.04.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	3	Dublin Black Sox	9
22.04.06	Belfast North Stars	0	Greystones Mariners	0
	Week 4
29.04.06	Dublin Spartans	10	Greystones Mariners	1
	Week 5
06.05.06	Twins	20	Greystones Mariners	24
06.05.06	Twins	15	Greystones Mariners	14
06.05.06	Dublin Black Sox	0	Dublin Spartans	3
07.05.06	Belfast North Stars	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	15
	Week 6
13.05.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	–	Dublin Spartans	–
13.05.06	Greystones Mariners	–	Dublin Black Sox	–
14.05.06	Twins	12	Belfast North Stars	3
	Week 7
20.05.06	Greystones Mariners	11	Belfast North Stars	0
21.05.06	Dublin Spartans	–	Twins	–
	Week 8
27.05.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Greystones Mariners	0
27.05.06	Twins	4	Dublin Spartans	10
27.06.06	Belfast North Stars	9	Dublin Black Sox	12
	Week 9
10.06.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Twins	8
10.06.06	Dublin Black Sox	1	Greystones Mariners	2
11.06.06	Dublin Spartans	22	Belfast North Stars	11
	Week 10
17.06.06	Dublin Spartans	6	Dublin City Hurricanes	16
17.06.06	Twins	7	Dublin Black Sox	9
17.06.06	Belfast North Stars	3	Greystones Mariners	9
	Week 11
24.06.06	Dublin Black Sox	10	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
24.06.06	Belfast North Stars	1	Twins	9
	Week 12
01.07.06	Belfast North Stars	1	Dublin Spartans	17
01.07.06	Greystones Mariners	3	Dublin Black Sox	6
	Week 13
08.07.06	Twins	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	0
08.07.06	Dublin Black Sox	5	Dublin Spartans	6
	Week 14
15.07.06	Dublin Spartans	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	3
15.07.06	Twins	0	Greystones Mariners	0
	Week 17
12.08.06	Greystones Mariners	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	4
12.08.06	Greystones Mariners	5	Dublin City Hurricanes	11
12.08.06	Dublin Spartans	8	Twins	4
	Week 18
16.08.06	Greystones Mariners	5	Dublin Black Sox	12
19.08.06	Dublin Black Sox	–	Dublin City Hurricanes	–
19.08.06	Dublin Spartans	7	Belfast North Stars	0
	Week 19
23.08.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Dublin Spartans	2
26.08.06	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Belfast North Stars	0
26.08.06	Greystones Mariners	7	Belfast North Stars	0
27.08.06	Dublin Spartans	10	Twins	1
27.08.06	Dublin Black Sox	10	Twins	4
	Week 20
02.09.06	Greystones Mariners	12	Dublin City Hurricanes	4
02.09.06	Dublin Black Sox	10	Dublin Spartans	4

[3]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Twins	O’Malley Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin

[3]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Darran O’Connor
Tommy Bond Best Pitcher Award	Chaime Cuevas

Reference: [6]

Report

The Dublin Spartans swept the Dublin Black Sox 2 games to nil in the Championship Final after also winning the A League Pennant with a 12-3 Won-Loss record. The Black Sox had qualified for the Final with a 10-4 record. Greystones Mariners (8-7) and defending Champions Dublin City Hurricanes (8-6) finished mid-table. New team Twins finished in fifth with a 5-8 record, and the Belfast North Stars, finished bottom with the one win.

About

The 2006 Irish Baseball League A League was the 10th season of the Irish Baseball League, and the first of the new A League after the League was split into two divisions after the 2005 season. There were 6 teams in the Division 1 (A) as it was known – with the four 2nd half Championship teams from 2005 joined by the Belfast North Stars from the Trophy section and new team Twins. Each team played each other 3 times for a balanced 15 game schedule, followed by a best of 3 Final featuring the Top two teams.

Websites

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2006) 2006 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20061026024439/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[3] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2006) 2006 Adult Irish Baseball League – Results to Date [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20061026024856/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Dublin Spartans 2006 Irish National League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Spartans2006champs.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
Championship
*Hurricanes	6	6	0	0	–	24
*Spartans	6	3	3	0	3.0	15
Black Sox	6	2	4	0	4.0	12
Greystones Mariners	6	1	5	0	5.0	9
Trophy
^Panthers	8	7	1	0	–	29
^Belfast North Stars	8	6	2	0	1.0	26
Belfast Wolves	8	4	4	0	3.0	20
Giants	8	2	4	2	6.0	10
Trojans	8	1	1	6	9.0	-1
1st Half
+Greystones Mariners	8	8	0	0	–	32
+Hurricanes	8	6	2	0	2.0	26
+Spartans	8	6	2	0	2.0	26
+Black Sox	8	5	3	0	3.0	23
Giants	7	3	4	0	4.5	16
Trojans	8	3	4	1	5.5	15
Belfast North Stars	7	2	5	0	5.5	13
Belfast Wolves	8	1	7	0	7.0	11
Panthers	8	1	6	1	7.5	9

[2] Note: + Qualify for 2nd Half Championship / * Qualify for Championship Final / ^ Qualify for Trophy Final.

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	League Trophy Series
20.08.2005	Panthers	0	Belfast North Stars	7
28.05.2005	Panthers	8	Belfast North Stars	1
28.05.2005	Panthers	15	Belfast North Stars	3
	(Panthers won series 2-1)
	League Championship Series
13.08.2005	Spartans	8	Hurricanes	9
20.08.2005	Spartans	2	Hurricanes	18
	(Hurricanes won series 2-0)

Reference: [3]

Regular Season Results 1st Half

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
09.04.2005	Hurricanes	3	Spartans	4
09.04.2005	Panthers	6	Black Sox	10
10.04.2005	Trojans	13	Belfast North Stars	15
10.04.2005	Giants	12	Wolves	4
	Week 2
16.04.2005	Giants	0	Hurricanes	21
16.04.2005	Greystones Mariners	5	Panthers	3
17.04.2005	Belfast North Stars	5	Spartans	13
17.04.2005	Belfast Wolves	6	Spartans	14
	Week 3
23.04.2005	Panthers	2	Spartans	10
23.04.2005	Trojans	9	Giants	12
23.04.2005	Belfast North Stars	5	Hurricanes	6
23.04.2005	Belfast Wolves	8	Hurricanes	23
	Week 4
30.04.2005	Hurricanes	17	Black Sox	6
	Week 5
07.05.2005	Greystones Mariners	7	Hurricanes	6
07.05.2005	Panthers	5	Giants	17
07.05.2005	Black Sox	5	Spartans	4
08.05.2005	Trojans	13	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 6
14.05.2005	Hurricanes	21	Trojans	5
14.05.2005	Panthers	13	Belfast North Stars	12
14.05.2005	Black Sox	8	Giants	7
15.05.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Spartans	7
	Week 7
21.05.2005	Spartans	10	Giants	8
21.05.2005	Hurricanes	25	Panthers	5
21.05.2005	Black Sox	0	Greystones Mariners	7
21.05.2005	Belfast North Stars	17	Belfast Wolves	0
	Week 8
28.05.2005	Spartans	7	Trojans	0 #
28.05.2005	Giants	7	Greystones Mariners	11
28.05.2005	Black Sox	4	Belfast North Stars	2
	Week 9
04.06.2005	Trojans	9	Panthers	7
04.06.2005	Trojans	2	Greystones Mariners	24
04.06.2005	Black Sox	14	Belfast Wolves	0
05.06.2005	Giants	p	Belfast North Stars	p
	Week 10
11.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	5	Belfast North Stars	4
11.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	15	Belfast Wolves	0
11.06.2005	Panthers	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7
12.06.2005	Black Sox	5	Trojans	11

[2]

Championship Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 11
18.06.2005	Hurricanes	11	Black Sox	7
18.06.2005	Black Sox	4	Hurricanes	16
	Week 12
25.06.2005	Hurricanes	13	Spartans	5
25.06.2005	Spartans	2	Hurricanes	3
25.06.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Black Sox	16
25.06.2005	Black Sox	13	Greystones Mariners	12
	Week 13
02.07.2005	Hurricanes	25	Greystones Mariners	10
	Week 14
16.07.2005	Greystones Mariners	8	Hurricanes	16
16.07.2005	Black Sox	1	Spartans	8
16.07.2005	Spartans	7	Black Sox	6
	Week 15
23.07.2005	Greystones Mariners	11	Spartans	10
23.07.2005	Spartans	7	Greystones Mariners	6

[2]

Trophy Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 11
18.06.2005	Belfast North Stars	8	Panthers	4
18.06.2005	Panthers	15	Belfast North Stars	1
	Week 12
25.06.2005	Panthers	7	Trojans	0 #
25.06.2007	Trojans	0 #	Panthers	7
	Week 13
02.07.2005	Giants	6	Panthers	14
02.07.2005	Panthers	6	Giants	5
02.07.2005	Belfast North Stars	7	Trojans	0 #
02.07.2005	Trojans	0 #	Belfast North Stars	7
	Week 14
16.07.2005	Giants	15	Trojans	8
16.07.2005	Trojans	16	Giants	2
	Week 15
23.07.2005	Giants	9	Belfast North Stars	1
23.07.2005	Belfast North Stars	18	Giants	10
23.07.2005	Belfast Wolves	5	Panthers	20
23.07.2005	Panthers	24	Belfast Wolves	6
	Week 16
30.07.2005	Belfast Wolves	7	Giants	0 #
30.07.2005	Giants	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 17
07.08.2005	Belfast Wolves	0	Belfast North Stars	22
07.08.2005	Belfast North Stars	45	Belfast Wolves	7
	Week 18
13.08.2005	Belfast Wolves	7	Trojans	0 #
13.08.2005	Trojans	0 #	Belfast Wolves	7

[2]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Belfast Wolves	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Shanganagh Park, Shankill, Co. Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
Dublin City Hurricanes	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Panthers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Giants	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Trojans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

Reference: [2]

Player Awards

Award	Player
Andy Leonard MVP Award	Steve DiVito
Tommy Bond Pest Pitcher Award	Shawn Miskiman
“Dirty” Jack Doyle Silver Slugger Award	Pat Nolan

Reference: [6]

Report

Hurricanes marched through the 2nd Half of the season (the Championship) with a 6-0 record, winning the Playoff Final by 2 games to nil against their arch nemesis Spartans. Greystones Mariners had finished the first half with an unbeaten 8-0 record, but collapsed in the second half Championship with a 1-5 Win-Loss Record. Hurricanes had finished with a 6-2 record in the first half, and the Spartans qualified for the Final with a 3-3 Record in the Championship, after finishing the first half 6-2. Black Soc were the fourth team to qualify for the Championship. finishing the first half 5-3, and then narrowly missing out on a place in the Final with a 2-4 record in the Championship.

The League had been split at the halfway point into a Championship (Top Half) and Trophy (Bottom Half) with the four Championship teams making up the new A-League in 2006 along with the Trophy winners, and the other teams were to be made B-teams of these teams in the new B-League. Panthers, after surprisingly struggling in the first half with just one win from 8, went 7-1 in the 2nd Half Trophy and then came from one game down to beat the Belfast North Stars in the best-of-three Final. Belfast North stars (6-2) also had a much better 2nd half after a disappointing 1st half (2-5). The other three teams all struggled – Belfast Wolves going 4-4 after going 1-7 in the first half, and the Giants (a new team) and Trojans bringing up the rear after both going 3-4 in the first half.

About

The 2005 Irish Baseball League season was the 9th season of the Adult Irish Baseball League. It featured 9 teams – a drop of one on 2004, with new team Giants replacing the Blue Devils & Tigers who both dropped out.

The League was split halfway into a Championship and Trophy sections to determine which teams would play in the new A-League in 2006, and which would be made B-Teams of the A-League in the new B-League, after it was decided to consolidate the players on a smaller number of clubs, each with its own B-team.

Sources

[3] Anon. (2005) “Panthers claw title Out of the fire”. Tallaght Echo Thursday, September 8, 2005.

Websites

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2005) 2005 Adult Irish Baseball League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20050828155124/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[6] Baseball Ireland (2019) Baseball Ireland – Award Winners [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/news.php?search_id=6 [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Images

[3] Irish Baseball and Softball Federation (1999) IBSF Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.geocities.ws/dbpackers/images/ibsf_logo_99.jpg [Accessed 11 May 2017]

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Hurricanes 2005 Irish League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/canes_2005.gif [Accessed 2 December 2019]

[5] Baseball Ireland (2017) Baseball Ireland Logo Car Sticker [Internet] http://www.baseballireland.com/images/carsticker.jpg [Accessed 1 May 2017]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

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Last Updated: 2 December 2019

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Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Hurricanes	18	16	2	0	–	66
*Spartans	18	14	2	2	3	56
*Greystones Mariners	18	12	6	0	4	54
*Black Sox	18	12	6	0	4	54
Belfast North Stars	18	11	7	0	5	51
Panthers	18	10	6	2	7	44
Belfast Wolves	18	4	14	0	12	30
Blue Devils	18	5	8	5	13.5	23
Trojans	16	3	5	8	16	9
Tigers	16	1	8	7	17.5	5

Reference: [1]

4 Pts Win / 1 Pt Loss / -1 Pt Forfeit (#) *Qualify for Semi-Finals

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Semi-Final A
04.09.04	Hurricanes	0	Black Sox	7
18.09.04	Black Sox	17	Hurricanes	8
	(Black Sox won series 2-0)
	Semi-Final B
04.09.04	Spartans	6	Greystones Mariners	2
12.09.04	Greystones Mariners	3	Spartans	18
	(Spartans won Series 2-0)
	Final
25.09.04	Black Sox	7	Spartans	12
	(Spartans won single-game series)

Reference: [2]

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
03.04.04	Trojans	5	Belfast North Stars	14
03.04.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	33	Wolves	4
04.04.04	Dublin Black Sox	7	Dublin Panthers	15
04.04.04	Dublin Spartans	0	Tigers	0
	Week 2
17.04.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	18	Tigers	3
18.04.04	Dublin Spartans	12	Dublin Panthers	3
18.04.04	Trojans	1	Greystones Mariners	20
	Week 3
24.04.04	Greystones Mariners	20	Wolves	3
24.04.04	Blue Devils	3	Belfast North Stars	13
25.04.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	8	Dublin Panthers	7
25.04.04	Dublin Black Sox	16	Tigers	9
	Week 4
01.05.04	Belfast North Stars	10	Dublin City Hurricanes	11
01.05.04 ^	Dublin City Hurricanes	14	Belfat North Stars	13
01.05.04	Tigers	14	Blue Devils	22
01.05.04	Dublin Panthers	20	Greystones Mariners	19
02.05.04	Dublin Spartans	6	Dublin Black Sox	5
02.05.04	Dublin Black Sox	14	Trojans	3
	Week 5
08.05.04	Dublin Spartans	16	Wolves	0
08.05.04	Belfast North Stars	10	Dublin Black Sox	9
09.05.04	Tigers	5	Trojans	13
09.05.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	13	Greystones Mariners	5
	Week 6
15.05.04	Dublin Panthers	16	Trojans	1
15.05.04	Greystones Mariners	6	Dublin Black Sox	7
16.05.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	5	Blue Devils	0
	Week 7
22.05.04	Belfast Wolves	2	Dublin Panthers	18
22.05.04^	Dublin Panthers	31	Dublin Wolves	0
23.05.04	Belfast North Stars	6	Greystones Mariners	3
22.05.04	Dublin Spartans	14	Blue Devils	2
22.05.04	Blue Devils	16	Dublin Spartans	28
23.05.04	Trojans	6	Dublin Black Sox	21
23.05.04	Tigers	0 #	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
	Week 8
12.06.04	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin Panthers	8
12.06.04 ^	Dublin Panthers	5	Belfast North Stars	6
12.06.04 ~	Tigers	0	Greystones Mariners	19
12.06.04	Greystones Mariners	16	Tigers	0
12.06.04	Dublin Spartans	4	Dublin City Hurricanes	6
12.06.04	Trojans	0 #	Blue Devils	7
13.06.04	Belfast Wolves	8	Dublin Black Sox	24
	Week 9
19.06.04	Dublin Black sox	17	Blue Devils	0
19.06.04	Blue Devils	2	Dublin Black Sox	14
19.06.04	Tigers	11	Dublin Panthers	12
20.06.04	Belfast North Stars	4	Dublin Spartans	7
	Week 10
26.06.04	Dublin Panthers	9	Dublin Black Sox	14
27.06.04&	Belfast Wolves	6	Dublin City Hurricanes	25
27.06.04	Belfast North Stars	7	Trojans	0 #
27.06.04	Tigers	4	Dublin Spartans	10
	Week 11
03.07.04	Dublin Panthers	1	Dublin Spartans	13
03.07.04	Trojans	0 #	Tigers	7
03.07.04	Greystones Mariners	17	Belfast North Stars	10
04.07.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	0	Dublin Black Sox	2
04.07.04	Dublin Black Sox	0	Dublin City Hurricanes	3
04.07.04 ^	Blue Devils	15	Belfast Wolves	5
04.07.04	Belfast Wolves	7	Blue Devils	11
	Week 12
10.07.04	Greystones Mariners	23	Dublin Panthers	4
10.07.04	Dublin Black sox	4	Dublin Spartans	8
10.07.04	Blue Devils	0	Tigers	0
	Week 13
17.07.04	Belfast Wolves	1	Greystones Mariners	22
17.07.04	Belfast North Stars	7	Blue Devils	0 #
17.07.04	Dublin Panthers	0 #	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
17.07.04	Tigers	0 #	Dublin Black Sox	7
18.07.04	Dublin Spartans	7	Trojans	0 #
18.07.04	Trojans	0 #	Dublin Spartans	7
	Week 14
24.07.04	Trojans	7	Dublin Panthers	0 #
24.07.04	Dublin Spartans	5	Belfast North Stars	4
25.07.04	Blue Devils	3	Dublin City Hurricanes	17
25.07.04	Dublin Black Sox	14	Greystones Mariners	16
	Week 15
31.07.04	Belfast North Stars	7	Tigers	0 #
31.07.04&	Tigers	0 #	Belfast North Stars	7
	Week 16
14.08.04	Blue Devils	7	Trojans	0 #
14.08.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	10	Dublin Spartans	4
14.08.04	Greystones Mariners	12	Dublin City Hurricanes	8
15.08.04	Dublin Black Sox	16	Belfast Wolves	1
	Week 17
21.08.04	Belfast North Stars	12	Belfast Wolves	5
21.08.04	Belfast Wolves	5	Belfast North Stars	20
21.08.04	Dublin City Hurricanes	7	Trojans	0 #
21.08.04	Trojans	0 #	Dublin City Hurricanes	7
22.08.04	Dublin Panthers	7	Blue Devils	0 #
22.08.04	Dublin Panthers	7	Tigers	0 #
21.08.04	Greystones Mariners	4	Dublin Spartans	5
21.08.04 ~	Dublin Spartans	8	Greystones Mariners	7
	Week 18
28.08.04	Belfast Wolves	7	Dublin Spartans	0 #
28.08.04	Blue Devils	7	Dublin Panthers	21
28.08.04	Dublin Black Sox	8	Belfast North Stars	5
29.08.04	Greystones Mariners	7	Trojans	0 #
29.08.04	Greystones Mariners	7	Blue Devils	0 #
29.08.04 ~	Blue Devils	0 #	Greystones Mariners	7
	Week 19
04.09.04	Trojans	10	Belfast Wolves	13
04.09.04 &	Belfast Wolves	3	Trojans	18

Reference: [2]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Belfast Wolves	Belfast
Dublin Black Sox	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Blue Devils	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin City Hurricanes	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Panthers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Dublin Spartans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Tigers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Trojans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow

Reference: [2]

Report

Spartans won the Playoff Championships beating the Black Sox 12-7 in the Single-Game Final after finishing the Regular Season as runners-up on a 14-2 Win-Loss record (plus two forfeits) and then sweeping the Greystones Marinners (12-6) in a best-of-3 Semi-Final. The Black Sox, also 12-6 had shocked the favourites, Hurricanes 2-0 in their three game Semi-Final, after the Gurricanes had won the League Pennant with a 16-2 record.

Belfast North Stars finished in the top half with an 11-7 record, their best performance yet, and the Panthers again finished mid-table (10-6 with 2 forfeits). Belfast Wolves finished 4-14, and the three bottom teams – Blue Devils (5-8-5), Trojans (3-5-8) and Tigers (1-8-7) all struggled, forfeiting 20 games between them.

About

The 2004 Irish Baseball League season was the 8th Season of the Adult Irish Baseball League. It featured 10 teams, an increase for the third year running – again a record number of teams. All teams returned from 2003, and new additions were the Trojans and Belfast Wolves.

Websites

[1] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2004) The 2004 Irish Baseball League Standings [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20041206085245/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league.htm [Accessed 24 March 2004]

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive – Baseball Ireland (2004) The 2004 Irish Baseball League Results to Date [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20041215042133/http://baseballireland.com/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2004]

Images

[3] Irish Baseball and Softball Federation (1999) IBSF Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.geocities.ws/dbpackers/images/ibsf_logo_99.jpg [Accessed 11 May 2017]

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Spartans 2004 All-Ireland League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/spartans_2004_champs.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.

Final League Table

	P	W	L	FF	GB	Pts
*Hurricanes	14	11	3	0	–	47
*Spartans	14	11	3	0	–	47
Panthers	14	9	5	0	2	41
Black Sox	14	8	6	0	3	38
Greystones Mariners	14	7	7	0	4	35
Belfast NorthStars	14	4	10	0	7	26
Blue Devils	14	4	9	1	7.5	24
Tigers	14	2	12	0	9	20

4 Pts Win / 1 Pt Loss / -1 Pt Forfeit

Playoff Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Championship Game		(Corkagh Park, Clondalkin)
31.08.03	Spartans	5	Hurricanes	8

Regular Season Results

Date	Home Team		Away Team
	Week 1
12.04.03	Hurricanes	10	Spartans	3
12.04.03	Panthers	6	Blue Devils	10
	Week 2
26.04.03	Panthers	10	Greystones Mariners	8
26.04.03	Tigers	13	Belfast NorthStars	11
27.04.03	Hurricanes	8	Black Sox	3
	Week 3
03.05.03	Black Sox	0	Spartans	11
03.05.03	Blue Devils	7	Hurricanes	11
04.05.03	Greystones Mariners	9	Panthers	13
	Week 4
10.05.03	Greystones Mariners	2	Black Sox	20
10.05.03^	Black Sox	7	Greystones Mariners	11
10.05.03	Spartans	21	Tigers	5
10.05.03	Hurricanes	6	Belfast NorthStars	3
	Week 5
17.05.03@	Belfast NorthStars	9	Greystones Mariners	15
	Week 6
24.05.03	Greystones Mariners	24	Belfast NorthStars	5
24.05.03	Spartans	9	Panthers	4
24.05.03	Tigers	1	Hurricanes	17
	Week 7
31.05.03	Spartans	9	Panthers	4
31.05.03	Hurricanes	7	Panthers	6
01.06.03	Blue Devils	15	Tigers	4
	Week 8
07.06.03	Belfast NorthStars	11	Blue Devils	14
07.06.03~	Blue Devils	7	Belfast NorthStars	17
07.06.03	Greystones Mariners	7	Hurricanes	8
07.06.03^	Hurricanes	11	Greystones Mariners	7
07.06.03	Panthers	22	Tigers	10
07.06.03	Tigers	16	Panthers	21
	Week 9
14.06.03	Blue Devils	14	Black Sox	19
14.06.03	Black Sox	17	Tigers	2
14.06.03	Tigers	1	Blue Devils	13
14.06.03	Belfast NorthStars	4	Spartans	0
	Week 10
21.06.03	Greystones Mariners	17	Tigers	3
21.06.03^	Tigers	5	Greystones Mariners	8
	Week 11
28.06.03	Black Sox	9	Blue Devils	8
28.06.03	Panthers	15	Hurricanes	8
29.06.03	Spartans	13	Belfast NorthStars	3
	Week 12
19.07.03	Panthers	10	Spartans	9
19.07.03	Hurricanes	15	Blue Devils	0
	Week 13
26.07.03	Blue Devils	3	Spartans	25
26.07.03	Black Sox	8	Hurricanes	5
26.07.03	Belfast NorthStars	9	Panthers	7
26.07.03~	Panthers	7	Belfast NorthStars	11
	Week 14
02.08.03	Tigers	0	Spartans	13
02.08.03	Blue Devils	3	Greystones Mariners	6
02.08.03	Belfast NorthStars	4	Black Sox	5
02.08.03~	Black Sox	13	Belfast NorthStars	5
	Week 15
09.08.03	Panthers	21	Black Sox	8
09.08.03	Belfast NorthStars	5	Hurricanes	6
	Week 16
16.08.03	Blue Devils	4	Panthers	16
16.08.03	Hurricanes	16	Tigers	3
16.08.03	Greystones Mariners	4	Spartans	6
16.08.03^	Spartans	10	Greystones Mariners	2
	Week 17
23.08.03	Tigers	2	Black Sox	16
23.08.03	Spartans	7	Blue Devils	0
23.08.03@	Belfast NorthStars	17	Tigers	23
	Week 18
30.08.03@	Greystones Mariners	10	Blue Devils	9
30.08.03	Black Sox	6	Panthers	10
31.08.03	Spartans	5	Hurricanes	1

Reference: [2]

Home Venues

Team	Home Field
Belfast NorthStars	Belfast
Black Sox	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Blue Devils	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Hurricanes	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Panthers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Spartans	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Tigers	Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Greystones Mariners	Greystones, Co. Wicklow
Games marked with @	Played at Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, D22, Co. South Dublin
Games marked with ^	Played at Greystones
Games marked with ~	Played at Belfast

Reference: [2]

Report

Hurricanes won the 2003 Irish Baseball League, beating Spartans 8-5 in a Playoff, after they both finished the season with identical 11-3 Win-Loss Records. Panthers (9-5), Black Sox (8-6) and Greystones Mariners (7-7) finished mid-table. Belfast North Stars (4-10), Blue Devils (4-9 & one forfeit) and newcomers Tigers (2-12) finished at the foot of the table.

About

The 2003 Season was the 7th year of the Adult Irish Baseball League. There was an increase of one team on the previous season as the Tigers, a team based in the Cuban Community in Ireland [5] entered the League making 8 teams in Total, an All-Time Record High.

References

Websites

[1] Wayback Machine Web Archive (2017) Irish Baseball – Adult League [Internet] Available from: https://web.archive.org/web/20031001124151/http://www.baseballireland.com/adult_league [Accessed 24 March 2017]

[2] Wayback Machine Web Archive (2017) 2003 Irish Baseball League Results to Date [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20031116104746/http://www.baseballireland.com:80/adult_league_past.htm [Accessed 24 March 2017]

Media

[5] The Emerald Diamond Feature Film.

Images

[3] Irish Baseball and Softball Federation (1999) IBSF Logo [Internet] Available from: http://www.geocities.ws/dbpackers/images/ibsf_logo_99.jpg [Accessed 11 May 2017]

[4] Baseball Ireland (2019) Hurricanes 2003 Irish League Champions [Internet] Available from: http://www.baseballireland.com/images/Hurricanes_2003.jpg [Accessed 2 December 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Brian Connolly (Panthers) & Peter Mullen (Black Sox)

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

Eirball | Irish North American and World Sports Archive

Last Updated: 2 December 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and Eirball 2019

You may quote this document in part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the authors. All Rights Resereved.