Oxford Softball League

Back in July, about 2.5 weeks after I moved to the UK, and a few days after settling into my new flat, I was looking on the Oxford http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/ website for things to do and see, and stumbled across this ad.

New Players Needed! (Especially Ladies)

Oxford Globetrotters are a team drawn from University Departments and several nationalities. They are keen to recruit some additional players to plug the holes appearing in their line-up now that the University term is drawing to a close.

Softball? In England? I decided to join. Apparently, it is actually a pretty big sport here and people from everywhere participate. Players in the league seem to be any age from 16 to 60 years old and my teammates were mostly Americans but we had players from Germany, Venezuela, England as well.

The Oxford Softball league has 10 teams and the some of them are really quite good and play in tournaments all over the UK. About Oxford Softball

The Globetrotters ended the season 3-10 (5 forfeits due to not enough players). I played the last 4 games of the season and we won 3 games. Coincidence? I think not. ;-)  But really, the team recruited about 5 new players to finish out the season and I met some new friends on the team.

Games are played at the Rover Sport & Social Club, next to the BMW Mini plant's test track. Occasionally we watched all the new Mini models speed down the fenced in road behind our field and then slam on the brakes!