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)

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Last Updated: 2 December 2019

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