Baseball in South Wales and Liverpool

[Wash DC Blue]

Is there much of a scene anymore?
I used to love it when I was a kid.
A fair amount of kids Football teams in Newport had Baseball teams in the summer.

It kind of stopped then and there were probably 4/5 Newport teams for seniors.

[splott parker]

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Men’s game has died a death unfortunately, the women’s game is still quite strong though.

[Wash DC Blue]

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Men’s game has died a death unfortunately, the women’s game is still quite strong though.

That's sad to hear.
There was St Mike's, Alex Old Boys, Civil, Pill Harriers and even Hartridge in Newport and probably double that in Cardiff about 20 years ago.

[MOZZER2]

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Is there much of a scene anymore?
I used to love it when I was a kid.
A fair amount of kids Football teams in Newport had Baseball teams in the summer.

It kind of stopped then and there were probably 4/5 Newport teams for seniors.

you mention 4/5 teams from Newport for seniors

The only teams I can remember playing against were St Michaels , Alexander Old Boys and Ebbw Bridge . Did Pill Harriers have a side too back in the day ?

[Wash DC Blue]

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you mention 4/5 teams from Newport for seniors

The only teams I can remember playing against were St Michaels , Alexander Old Boys and Ebbw Bridge . Did Pill Harriers have a side too back in the day ?

Pill Harriers did as did Hartridge and Civil Service out of Bettws.
I think even The Sarries did.
If they were of a Standard to play against the Cardiff teams...I'm not sure.

[MOZZER2]

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Pill Harriers did as did Hartridge and Civil Service out of Bettws.
I think even The Sarries did.
If they were of a Standard to play against the Cardiff teams...I'm not sure.

yes when i saw your post regarding civil service you are correct it jogged my memory i remember i played a night game up the civil service ground and didn;t finish for bad light as were still playing at 10 in the night -lol

Yes the WBU held representative games and 1 year got selected to play for a good solid cardiff side against Newport but you townies hammered us by an innings

got selected a for a welsh trial but didn't get in as there were some very good players back then . my lad went on to represent the wales youth side a few years later

great times when i look back

[tforturton]

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Used to be huge crowds on roach Park recreation ground, back in the day, and I can remember pretty large crowds only twenty years ago. Seems to have died a dead recently though.

[insider]

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I played for Penylan B we beat Ebbw Bridge in the B league Cup final about 1992 on the pitch next to the transporter bridge went back to their club for drinks and sarnies.
There club has gone now and was a property for sale on homes under the Hammer.

[Wash DC Blue]

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yes when i saw your post regarding civil service you are correct it jogged my memory i remember i played a night game up the civil service ground and didn;t finish for bad light as were still playing at 10 in the night -lol

Yes the WBU held representative games and 1 year got selected to play for a good solid cardiff side against Newport but you townies hammered us by an innings

got selected a for a welsh trial but didn't get in as there were some very good players back then . my lad went on to represent the wales youth side a few years later

great times when i look back

Nice one Mozz.

My Mam was from Pill and moved to Bettws when she was a bit older.
So I'd spend a lot of time in Tees Close which was half a stones throw from The Civil Ground, supposedly visiting Grand Parents but watching baseball on Summers Evenings.

[Wash DC Blue]

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I played for Penylan B we beat Ebbw Bridge in the B league Cup final about 1992 on the pitch next to the transporter bridge went back to their club for drinks and sarnies.
There club has gone now and was a property for sale on homes under the Hammer.

The pitch would be Coronation Park, right down the bottom of Corporation Road.
Opposite Pill basically.

I heard The Ebbw Bridge had gone.
Reminds me though of a pool match one night against
them when some lad started...and was met with "Sit down, the hardest thing out of Maesglas is The Argus Crossword" :)

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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The pitch would be Coronation Park, right down the bottom of Corporation Road.
Opposite Pill basically.

I heard The Ebbw Bridge had gone.
Reminds me though of a pool match one night against
them when some lad started...and was met with "Sit down, the hardest thing out of Maesglas is The Argus Crossword" :)

What a road (Corporation) that must have been in its heyday!
I worked for quite a few years at the nearby Whiteheads steelworks. At Christmas time, we would start off on a pub crawl from the West Of England pub, next to the transporter bridge.
Every street corner leading on to Corporation Rd had a pub. A lot of them were boarded up but there were still enough pubs left to make it quite a challenge to finally make it down to the King William pub down the other end.
Many, like myself, were Cardiff lads, but we never encountered any problems in that area in all fairness.

I wonder how many pubs are actually left on Corporation Rd these days?

[the other bob wilson]

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What a road (Corporation) that must have been in its heyday!
I worked for quite a few years at the nearby Whiteheads steelworks. At Christmas time, we would start off on a pub crawl from the West Of England pub, next to the transporter bridge.
Every street corner leading on to Corporation Rd had a pub. A lot of them were boarded up but there were still enough pubs left to make it quite a challenge to finally make it down to the King William pub down the other end.
Many, like myself, were Cardiff lads, but we never encountered any problems in that area in all fairness.

I wonder how many pubs are actually left on Corporation Rd these days?

We went for an office Christmas meal in the pub by the Transporter Bridge (can't remember what it was called, but it wasn't the West of England) having, for some reason, walked down Corporation Road and it was noticeable how you began to see more boarded up shops and closed pubs the further you walked towards the bridge. This would have been fifteen to twenty years ago and it wouldn't have been much of a pub crawl if we'd tried one that day.

[Alan Lung]

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What a road (Corporation) that must have been in its heyday!
I worked for quite a few years at the nearby Whiteheads steelworks. At Christmas time, we would start off on a pub crawl from the West Of England pub, next to the transporter bridge.
Every street corner leading on to Corporation Rd had a pub. A lot of them were boarded up but there were still enough pubs left to make it quite a challenge to finally make it down to the King William pub down the other end.
Many, like myself, were Cardiff lads, but we never encountered any problems in that area in all fairness.

I wonder how many pubs are actually left on Corporation Rd these days?

Corporation Road is the other side of the river to the West of England. You're getting confused with Commercial Road.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Corporation Road is the other side of the river to the West of England. You're getting confused with Commercial Road.

Damn, thank you for correcting me. Yeah, Commercial Rd, I should have said. Doh!

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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We used to go to TJs to watch metal bands and would have a drink in a pub over the road

Is that the maindee area ?