Get Ready to Rumble: Your 2025 Manchester Softball League Captain’s Guide
The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the satisfying thwack of a well-caught ball – it’s almost
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Teams
An Open Letter From New MSL League Head Luis Arrevillagas
As we gear up for the 2025 season, your exec team is excited and ready for what’s ahead. We’ve been getting to know each other, especially with some new members joining, and we’re working to find the best ways to collaborate and support the league moving forward.
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Introducing Didsbury Base Invaders
MSL chats with James Carter, captain of the league’s newest team, Didsbury Base Invaders.
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MSL Chats to Tournament Team Misfits
MSL talks to Kat Peters and Stéphane Karayannis-Desbois, captains of the Nottingham & Manchester travelling tournament team, Misfits.
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National Softball League 2024 Preview
The National Softball League kicks off this weekend with a new structure. Eight Manchester based teams now play across the three NSL divisions.
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Slowpitch Ireland Stuns at Manchester First Ball
Slowpitch Ireland joined the Gold tier of Manchester First Ball two weeks ago. A subsection of the international squad, the team surprised our comp regulars with only one loss all weekend. MSL talks to head coach Peter Mullen about the squad.
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MSL Talks to Swindon Bombers at Festiball
Your roving reporter chats to Oxford Bombers at Edinburgh’s Festiball about their love for tournaments, their development plan, and their own Zuckerberg!
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GB U-18s Test Their Mettle at the European Championships
MSL talks to fifteen-year-old GB player Luis Allan Arrevillagas about his recent trip to the Czech Republic with the GB U-18s for the European Championships.
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MSL Chats to Tournament Regulars at Diffodil
Cardiff league’s renowned and chilled out tournament, Diffodil, ran in Cardiff on the weekend on June 3rd. Cardiff runs a two-tiered setup for C and D grade to provide a tournament for new, developing and experimental teams. MSL catches up with some of the tournament teams you may not have seen in the North West.
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Stingers battle it out at the Liverpool Shield
Getting a Stinger team down to a tourney is like herding kittens, so our hybrid outfit for Liverpool this year consisted of Hackers, one Screwball and travelling friends from north of the border representing Edinburgh Vandals.
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