Thanks to our friend Bernie Lopez for sharing the link below to the Official Zeist tournament website in Holland.
Click here to view the tournament website. And here for Photos.
The Great Britain team that’s going to play in the upcoming ISF World championships played in it and ended up in 5th place
Bernie is a member of my “Long Beach Deadwood” 50-and-over squad and played in the Zeist tournament previously. Bernie keeps his passport up to date, having traveled to the Czech Republic to see Team USA play when they went, and is making his plans to be in Saskatoon for the ISF Worlds in July.
Bernie shared this personal story about playing in the Zeist tournament in Holland:
I played in this tournament back in 1990 as a member of the Bentwaters Phantoms fastpitch club. A team from New York, TWA, played in it and we beat them. We won the championship by beating the Dutch National team full of Aruban ball players. I’m thinking of coming out of retirement (ala Brett Farve!) next year and playing in it! : )
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Remember you can use Google translator to read the foreign language websites. We have posted a translation from Dutch to English from a page at the Zeist Holland Tournametn website detailing the history of the event below.
This, in conjunction with the centenary of the association, is that during the weekend of Whitsun in 1984, three fast-pitch “softball tournament organized gentlemen. With the help of American air base in Soesterberg and supported by advertisers to manage the organization around it.
June 9-11 1984 Centennial Tournament
The first tournament, then known as “Centennial Tournament” as gives some starting problems. The team remains Zweibrucken way to say no and KNBSB pick at the last moment a number of referees away. The teams on Friday in the Final Zeister received. Winner in this first team of the Ramstein Rams with pitcher Jeff Keppner that the balls with a sloppy 150 km / h on the plate throws. Rhein-Main Rockets and Schweinfurt were second and third. Are the Water Phantoms led by Earl Hicks are named most popular team.