Visiting overseas teams

Visiting US-style baseball teams from overseas have competed against British baseball teams from time to time.

For example, in 1933, Liverpool Amateurs challenged a Japanese ship, the Lima Maru, to a game under American rules. This game drew an "unusually large crowd" and was won by the Japanese 12-9. However, a year later the Amateurs won the return game. A similar game had been played in the early 1920s against a Canadian ship, but there are no records of a result.[i]

 On August 27 1938, Cardiff team Penylan faced London Americans at Cardiff Arms Park. The contest saw one inning each under ‘Welsh’ rules, followed by three innings under US rules.

 In July 1969, Newport team Alexandra Old Boys met a US Army team from a military base at Caerwent in south Wales in a game of softball – a contest which the locals won 26-12, thanks to 13 runs in the eighth inning.[ii]