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ESL presents its Glover Cup League Award to long-time softball family

The Edinburgh Softball League (ESL) won the Glover Cup League Award at the recent BSF AGM, given each year to a league that has demonstrated excellence in organisation and development. The award was collected by Phil Wallace from ESL team Storks and independent team Chaos, who brought it back up to Scotland.

But the ESL captains then decided to pass on the award on to the league’s most loyal family, and they did just that at a recent Captains’ Meeting.

Andy and Joyce Anderson and their children Gareth and Caroline have all been playing softball in the Edinburgh League since 1998, when the league was still run by Matchpoint, a sports marketing company, and was purely a corporate Surveyors League closed to outsiders.
Softball started for the Andersons with Joyce's works team, Dundas & Wilson, and both Gareth and Caroline joined in at the early ages of 15 and 14. Since then the whole family has played with the Marabou Storks, but more recently Andy and Joyce have joined the Vandals while Gareth has spread his wings with the mighty Chi Hong Gang and Caroline with Berties.

Both Andy and Gareth umpire in the league while Joyce has been running the one of the ESL women’s teams, The Nessies. At least one Anderson can be found wandering the ESL softball fields at any time – if not playing for their own team, they’ll be umpiring, coaching or helping another team make up the numbers.

So the Anderson family has truly been at the heart of the ESL for almost the whole of its existence, and that’s why the ESL’s Glover Cup award has found a proper home.