Danny Gunn joins BSF Hall of Fame
Greensox and GB player Danny Gunn was inducted into the BSF Hall of Fame at the 2016 BSF AGM held here in Manchester this February. 
Danny’s citation reads as follows:
Danny started playing softball in 1999 with a work-based team in Manchester, the GUS Growlers, who won Division 2 in his first season. He went to GB tryouts that autumn and failed to make the grade, but this made him even more determined to improve and he made the squad in 2000.
Since then, as work has taken him round the country, Danny has played with league teams in Manchester, London and Leeds, and with a number of weekend tournament teams.
Danny also met his wife through softball, and they have two children, Sophie (3) and Henry (1) who have already started hitting a softball off a tee in the garden!
Danny has played every position in co-ed and single-sex slowpitch softball except pitcher, and has exceptional skill as a hitter, able to hit line drives with power to all parts of the field. Once he gets on a
It was Alex Hall who first introduced Danny to softball in Manchester, and since Alex finally lost her fight with cancer, the Manchester softball community has raised over £500,000 for Christies for Cancer Hospital, where Alex was treated over a number of years. Danny is proud to have been involved in this effort.
He is also proud of the lifelong friends he has made through the sport, both in this country and around the world.
Danny’s future softball ambitions include regaining the European Slowpitch Cup this year with Chromies, still playing the sport (at a lower level) when Sophie and Henry are ready to join the Manchester Softball League and coach- ing to help softball continue to grow and develop.
The first individuals were in- ducted into the BSF Hall of Fame in 2007, and the list now com- prises 48 players, administrator sand coaches.
Danny is the first Manchester player to be inducted, and only the second MSL inductee after former League Head Harry Somers was cited in the administrators’ section in 2014.
Once he gets on a roll, there is almost no stopping him, and he has excelled as a lead off hitter for GB over the years, helping the team win four European Championships and a gold medal at the Slowpitch World Cup in 2002.
His achievements in domestic softball include six Division 1 titles in the Manchester Softball League and two in Leeds, several B Nationals titles with Greensox, seven National Champion- ships (six with Chromies and one with Stingrays), multiple gold medals at theMen’s Slowpitch Nationals with the Manchester Hoggs and a large number of other major tournament wins.
In addition, Danny has collected one gold medal and two silver medals with Chromies in the European Slowpitch Cup.
