Table

	P	W	L	Frf	RF	RA	Pts
*Dukes
Colts
Chiefs
Dodgers
Belfast NorthStars
Belfast Team 2

Note: *Champions

Reference: [1-2]

Report

The Dukes won the first Irish Baseball League season in 1997. The League started after a number of Softball players wanted something more competitive and started practicing Baseball, a then sent a team to the European Baseball Championships in Hull, England in 1996.

Peter O’Malley, the Irish-American owner of the Major League Los Angeles Dodgers donated $100,000 to develop the field at Corkagh Park into a proper Baseball Field and the League was born. Six teams entered the League that year – four from Dublin and two from Belfast – and after the season was over it was decided to start afresh with new teams and an all-players draft.

Home Field

Team	Home Field
The Dukes	O’Malley Baseball Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
The Colts	O’Malley Baseball Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
The Chiefs	O’Malley Baseball Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
The Dodgers	O’Malley Baseball Fields, Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
Belfast North Stars	Belfast
Wolves ??	Belfast

References:

Sources

[1] O’Toole, Bernie (1997) “It’s a homerun for Irish baseball enthusiats as BERNIE O’TOOLE finds them batting in style | A minority sport” Evening Herald Thursday, June 19, 1997. pg. 22.

Websites

[2] Boston Irish (2008) Baseball in Ireland, really? The lowdown on Baseball in Ireland [Internet] Available from: http://irishbaseballseason.blogspot.com/2007/05/baseball-in-ireland-really-low-down-on.html [Accessed 29 July 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Peter Kavanagh, Baseball Ireland & Peter Mullin, Dublin Black Sox

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Last Updated: 29 July 2019

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