Welsh Ladies Baseball Union Logo [Reference: 1]

WLBU Premier Division 2012

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Pill Harriers	13	11	0	2	22
Llandaff Ladies	11	10	0	1	20
Llanrumney United	11	6	0	5	12
St. Peter’s A	10	6	0	4	12
Pengam Moors A	12	5	0	7	10
Fairwater Ladies	8	4	0	4	8
Caerau A	11	3	0	8	6
St. Joseph’s A	12	0	0	12	0

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WLBU Premier Division 2013

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Llandaff Ladies	14	14	0	0	28
Pill Harriers	14	10	0	4	20
Llanrumney United	14	10	0	4	20
Caerau A	14	9	0	5	18
Grange Catholics	14	5	0	9	10
Pengam Moors	14	5	0	9	10
St. Joseph’s	14	3	0	11	6
St. Peter’s A	14	0	0	14	0

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WLBU Premier Division 2014

	P	W	D	L	Pts

WLBU Premier Division 2015

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Llanrumney United	14	14	0	0	28
Caerau Ladies	14	12	0	2	24
Llanishen RFC	14	9	0	5	18
St. Joseph’s RFC	13	6	0	7	12
Gower Sports A	14	2	0	12	4

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WLBU Premier Division 2016

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Llanrumney United	9	6	2	1	14
Newport Ladies	14	6	2	1	14
Llanishen RFC	10	4	2	4	10
Gower Sports A	9	2	2	5	6
Caerau Ladies	10	0	10	0	10
St. Joseph’s	9	0	2	7	2

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WLBU Premier Division 2017

	P	W	D	L	Pts
Newport Ladies	14	14	0	0	28
Fairwater Ladies	14	10	1	3	21
Llanrumney United	14	10	1	3	21
Gower Sports A	14	8	0	6	16
St. Joseph’s	14	7	0	7	14
Canton Cross	14	3	0	11	6
Rumney Ladies	14	3	0	11	6
Fairwater Social	14	0	0	14	0

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WLBU Premier Division 2018

	P	W	D	L	Pct
Newport Ladies	13	11	1	1	85
Llanrumney United	12	9	0	3	75
St. Joseph’s Ladies	12	8	0	4	67
Diamond Ladies	11	6	0	5	55
Gower Sports A	13	4	1	8	31
Canton Cross	12	3	1	8	25
Rumney Ladies	13	0	1	12	0

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About Welsh Baseball

Welsh Baseball is a version of Rounders played primarily in South Wales, and also in Liverpool, where it is known as English Baseball. It is like a cross between Baseball, Rounders and Cricket. During the latter half of the 19th Century, the famous A.G. Spalding of Major League Baseball fame organised a Baseball Tour of England and Ireland, and in the process played a number of games against English and Welsh Rounders teams, who adopted some of the rules (such as tagging a playerout with the ball and two-handed batting). It kept the poles rather than flat bases and left the diamond in an irregular shape with all four sides unequal in length. Welsh Baseball also has a bat more like a Cricket Bat than a Baseball Bat, and it tapers towards the handle. According to sources in referenced in the articles below, Irish immigrants to Liverpool and South Wales were numerous among the Working Classes playing the game in the 20th Century. It is still played in South Wales and Liverpool but is now mostly a Children’s and Teenagers Game.

References

[1] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union Facebook Page (2017) Profile Picture April 12 2017 [Internet] Available from: https://www.facebook.com/21387949710/photos/a.10154678147744711.1073741828.21387949710/10155257824239711/?type=3&theater [Accessed 30 November 2017]

Websites

[2] Internet Archive – Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2014) 2012 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://web.archive.org/web/20120722134948/http://www.wlbu.co.uk/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=12 [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[3] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2013) 2013 League Tables [Internet] Available from: http://www.wlbu.co.uk/cms2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=13 [Accessed 17 December 2016]

[4] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2015) 2015 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2015-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[5] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2016) 2016 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2016-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[6] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2017) 2017 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2017-league-tables/ [Accessed 11 August 2017]

[7] Welsh Ladies Baseball Union (2018) 2017 League Tables [Internet] Available from; http://www.wlbu.org/2017-league-tables-2/ [Accessed 16 September 2018