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MBC Awards 2007: The awards night was held on the 15th December, at the Northern tennis club. Luis getting his second Eagles' double of batting champ and MVP, while Ed got his first double of A's MVP and most improved player, Yang became the second player to add an A's batting champ to his Eagles batting champ award (from 2003). Full details here and photos here. 05/02/08

Senior League 2007: The last league matches played were on the 25/26th August, as the Eagles (17:5) needing to make up games first travelled to Birmingham on Saturday for a postponed DH, which they evetually won 12-7 and 10-9. On Sunday was the Manchester derby with the A's and Eagles meeting for the first time in 2007. The A's started well taking a 2-0 lead into the 3rd and the game was still level mid way through the 5th, but eventually the Eagles pressure lead to them finishing strongly to record a 13-3 win. However the Eagles later found out that despite their 3 wins a double by Menwith (18:4) over Liverpool (19:4) meant the Eagles have to settle for 3rd in the NNL one place outside the NL Final 4 qualification. The A's (11:10) met their pre-season objective of a 500 record, but finshed behind a strong Humber (18:3) team also one place away from the Division 1 Final 4 qualification.
See MBC match day pictures in the gallery and the Eagles and A's game reports. 25/08/07

Senior AGM / Awards 2006: The senior AGM / awards night was held on the 18th November 2006, at the Northern Lawn Tennis Club (map) in Didsbury (venue of all recent events / meetings). The meeting saw the election of the MBC committee for the 2007 season and the presentation of the 2006 awards, a full list of award winners is here. 02/12/06

Senior League 2006: On Sunday 20th August the Eagles (15:11) beat NNL Winners Menwith Hill (21:5) 3-2 to qualify for the National League play-offs by finishing 3rd in the NNL, the win was essential after Edinburgh (14:11) won both their games over Liverpool (16:9) - final table here. On the weekend of the 26/27th August the Eagles visited defending National Champions Croydon for the NL final 4 play-off, the Eagles lost this best of 3 series 2-0. On the same Sunday the A's (7:15) finished the season with an away loss to Stratheclyde in a single rearranged game, this left the A's third in the Northern Premier League, final table here. 14/11/06

GB Juniors 2006: William Fusi-Rubiano and Johnny Woodall in Spain with the GB under 18s.

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Senior Awards 2005: Manchester Baseball Club held its annual awards at the Katmandu Nepalese restaurant in West Didsbury (near Allen Field in Didsbury) on the 21st January. Luis Arrevillagas was the main winner picking up the Eagles MVP and Batting champ, while Martyn Gough was A's MVP with Ian Marginson again A's batting champ. Other awards saw a first Gold Glove for Yang Wu and a lifetime achievement award for David Gould. Full awards list here. 04/03/06

Post Season 2005: MBC played a friendly on the 18th September, away against the Birmingham Bulldogs, the combined MBC team lost a close game 13-16, read a game report here. 02/10/05

Seniors League Matches 2005: The Eagles (8:20) finished the season with a rearranged home DH against Menwith (14:11), losing both games 3-15 and 6-17. These wins secured Menwith second spot and a place in the post season play-offs, which they lost against Croydon so only Liverpool make the GB Final 4 from the North (final Eagles batting stats here). Meanwhile the A's (6:13) split a DH with Bolton (2:17) 17-4 and 3-4, moving over Barnsley (6:13) (because the A's had made no forfeits) to finish in 4th spot, and thereby qualifying for a play-off with Stratheclyde (13-6) the following week, a game the A's were to lose 0-19 on a wet day in Scotland. Halton and Sheffield made the Division 1 Final 4 from the North. 03/09/05

Eagles v Hull at Allen Field.

Club Friendly 2005: The second MBC intersquad games of Under-25's against Over-25's (the first was won by the seniors in 2003) took place on Sunday (31st July), and the juniors showed their improvement in the last 2 years by winning a thrilling match, which saw the lead change several times. In the end Liam Dickinson came up with a hit off Paul Fagan in the bottom of the 9th (with 2 outs) to score the winning run and see the juniors home 12-11. Game report here. 06/08/05

MBC MLB Fantasy League 2005: Like the real world series the MBC 2005 post season league finished with a two way head to head between Roj and Margy, Roj showed early season form can last by holding out for the win. League 2 finished with Rob D pulling clear from the pack to win a closely fought season. Roj won league 1 after a tight finish with Margy and Coops. You can look at results and look into to how it all works ready for next year here. Until then there is now an MBC fantasy football league as well, see the MLB sheet on the forum for details. 29/10/05

GB News Update 2005: Baseball and Softball have been excluded from Olympics (from and not including London 2012), read more from the BSUK website here. 10/07/05

MBC Senior Awards 2003: Manchester Baseball Club held its annual awards at the Northern Tennis club (near Allen Field in Didsbury) on the 11th October. In his final season with the club Matt Cooper won the Express MVP award, while Paul Fagan was the A's MVP. Full awards list here. 12/10/03

Baseball Theft 2003: We've just heard from ex-A's manager John Fisher, and his son Dave (a former MBC player) has had a lot of his baseball gear stolen, John is offering a reward regarding this, read about it here. 16/11/03

BBF Appointment 2003: MBC club secretary Ian Marchment has been asked to join the BBF board as the Northern representative. The board has been without a northern representative and this appointment recognises the work MBC has put in developing the sport in the north, in particular the success of the northern tournament. However Ian will be representing the whole of the north and not just MBC, so if any northern members want Ian to raise any issues or ideas with the BBF then email him here. The news was announced on the BSUK site, read the article here. Minutes of this meeting and other Northern meetings along with news on other northern issues can be found here. 18/09/03

Northern Senior Tournament 2003: BSUK and Manchester Baseball Club held a senior northern tournament co-hosted at Allen Field (2 diamonds) and Halton Baseball Field (1 diamond) on the 13th and 14th September. Menwith Hill were the first winners of the Northern Tournament on a glorious sunny day in Manchester, beating Liverpool 2-1 in a tight final. The final schedule with day 1 and day 2 results is available here. Also the Saturday night of the tournament there was a preliminary Northern league meeting to discuss the future of Northern baseball, more details and a copy of the minutes are available here. 18/09/03

Northern League 2003: Finished at the end of August, with Hull and Liverpool beating Edinburgh and Shropshire in the play-offs to qualify for the Premier Final 4. Both teams got through the semis with wins over the top southern teams, and met in the final where Hull ran away 14-0 winners. The Express finished just outside the play-off places in 6th, while the A's in 10th with 5 wins had their best season since MBC formed its second team in 1999, in fact the A's had only won 4 games on the field in the last 4 years! Final table here. Express game reports, box scores and more photos here and final Express stats here. A's game reports here and final A's stats here. 11/09/03

MBC Juniors 2003: Both the MBC Pony and Bronco teams finished top of the Northwest league. The Bronco team goes straight through to the Final 4, as the North East have no Bronco teams, while the Manchester Pony team beat Nottingham 12-2, without batting in the 7th innings. Both teams therefore went through Final 4 (held on the 13th and 14th September at Waltham Abbey), both teams fared well but unfortunately lost in the semi finals. 11/09/03

GB Juniors 2003: William Fusi-Rubiano and Johnny Woodall have been selected for the Great Britain Colt side to compete in Lafeyette, USA in August, Good Luck. Plus the following MBC Juniors have been selected for the Great Britain Cadet Squad to go to Prague at the end of August to compete in the European Zone Pony Tournament; James Eaton, David Gaskell, Michael Gaskell, David McNeilage and Johnny Woodall. Also congratulations to: Asa Carney, Sean McNeilage, Patrick Conneely, Tom Conneely on being selected for the Great Britain Juvenile Squad to compete in Moscow in July. 18/07/03

MBC Senior Awards 2002: The season finished with the usual end of season awards night. This year it was again held in Rafters bar in Northenden on the 21 Sept. Awards were given to: MVP for Express; Hervé Boutin, MVP for the A's; Chris Jackson, Batting Champion; Roger Young and Rookie; Barry Joyce. Congrats to them and everyone else for all the hard work on the field this season. Updated Awards here. 23/09/02

Premier League Final 4 2002: Brighton football star Bobby Zamora presented the inaugural Premier Division Final 4 trophy to the Menwith Hill Patriots in the rain at Waterhall Park on Sunday afternoon, after the Patriots had held off a late challenge from the Cambridge Monarchs to win the seven-inning game 7-5. Bob Benitez, with a single, double and two runs scored for Menwith Hill, took the MVP Award. Having not played earlier in the season, Benitez admitted it was worth returning now. "I hadn't played part of the season, and about a month back I woke up at three in the morning and thought "I wanna play ball!". So I came back to it. The coach (Nelson Setzer) said we have maybe the best team in the UK, but we don't have the finances to be in the Rawlings National League. It would have been nice to play those guys too and see if he was right". In the Premier Division semi-finals, played on Saturday, Cambridge Monarchs outlasted the Liverpool Trojans 9-7 in a tense game that ended in controversy; but Menwith Hill Patriots pounded the Oxford Kings 23-8 for an easy passage to the final. 2/09/02

Northern League 2002: Menwith Hill, Liverpool, Shropshire and the Express qualified for the play-offs - the Express just sneaking through in 4th on the tied results rule (Confused? See latest table for details). In the play-off matches Menwith Hill beat Manchester Express 5-2 and Liverpool beat Shropshire 12-2. At the other end Glasgow's final day victory over the A's saw the A's finish at the foot of the table. 01/09/02

Manchester, Preston & Halton junior teams, coaches & officials at the Manchester Open

GB Juniors 2002: William Fusi-Rubiano and Johnny Woodall have now been confirmed as first team selections for the European Championships in Holland with the GB Cadets, and both are ranked in the top ten. They have spent since last Sept working towards this and will play a number of pre-tour games starting at Alconbury this Sunday 26th May. They will also go forward to Prague for the World Youth Series games in August. Sean McNeilage and Asa Carney have also both been selected to represent Great Britain Juveniles in the European Championships. This year the Championships will be held in Prague, Czech Republic from the 13th July to the 20th July. Congratulations to all the Juniors from everyone at MBC. 05/06/02

Sean McNeilage - Lymm Life

GB Seniors 2002: On the 16-18th May GB seniors took on Sweden in a home set of 5 friendly international matches at Townmead Leisure Park, Waltham Abbey, home to the Essex Arrows, with GB losing 4-1. The Express' Danny Allen was in the GB squad for the first time. 20/05/02

MBC History Updated: Many more photos and articles from Manchester baseball have turned up. Baseball has been played in and around Manchester at least since the 1930s and if you have not checked out the history of Manchester baseball yet have a look at a summary here, or at a collection of old photos and programmes in the gallery here. 17/05/02

Coaching Staff: There are are a number of qualified coaches, and even a few umpires in the club, but more are always needed. If any parents or players want to undertake a coaching qualification or learn to umpire or even learn to score, then please contact the club for further details. For information about umpiring / coaching clinics and BBF coaching qualifications please contact Ronan Dunne. 13/02/02

Help needed for the new season: The season starts in mid-April. MBC need volunteers to assist with a whole variety of tasks to ensure our players (senior and junior) can enjoy baseball at the highest standard. If you can help with any of the following then please volunteer your time: 

	Administration
	Fund raising
	Equipment
	Coaching
	Umpiring
	Scoring
	Field preparation, bases and boundary marking
	Refreshments
	Travel arrangements

If you can offer any other ideas to benefit the club, then let us know. 02/02/02

Manchester Leisure Award £5k for Ground Development: Following a number of meetings with Manchester City Council, MBC have secured another phase of our ground development plan. Manchester Leisure awarded a budget of £5000 to be spent on our field for a number of improvements. Thanks to some professional presentations and the support of our contact Graham Whightman, MBC will be able to enjoy additional storage, a batting cage, bull pen, foul poles on both diamonds, a boundary fence for the senior diamond and new dugout shelters. The existing team benches will transfer to the junior field. These improvements will make MBC one of the best facilities in the country and will enable continued growth of our club at all levels. We will need your help to maintain these facilities and hope that you can lend a hand to help customize once in place. 09/01/02

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