The Gators were started in 1983, by Pat Connolly when he assembled a bunch of young and upcoming talented Southside athletes that were playing for family members. They played in the Mt. Greenwood league where they won the league 23 out of the next 25 years. They also played in the Blue Island A league …
The Juicers began their Co-Ed journey in 1988 as a recreational team in Grant Park on Saturday mornings to get together to have fun and go to sponsors downtown afterwards. The men were from several different teams, the women mostly from the Break-A-Ways. After winning at the recreational level the team soon began playing in …
The Lushes are one of the well-known women’s 16” softball team on the northwest side. The Lushes began playing in 1990 and dominated in the late 1990’s throughout the 2000’s. They had repeat championship years at Riis Park, Franklin Park, Shabbona Park, Oriole Park fall ball, Norridge Park and Melas Park. They began playing at …
The CHAOS team was a Northside team that started playing together at Oriole Park in the 1990s. They came to be one of the premier women’s teams on that side of the city. Behind a core of 8 players who played over 20 years together– each year they would have a team that would go out and …
Created in 1980 by a group of young men from the Dearborn Homes section of Chicago, they began their rise by playing in the tournaments around their neighborhood such Avalon, Ogden, Hamilton, and Washington Parks. The next year a few Gypsy Stars players were added and played in tougher tourneys and leagues including the 75th …
In 1969 a bunch of childhood friends thought it was time to stop watching the great softball games at Amundsen Park (Park9) at night and start playing ourselves. After all, as young teenagers, we thought we were pretty good after winning back to back City of Chicago Softball Championship Tournaments. After a few years of …
The Scorpions Softball Club began play in1980 with 15 talented players in their early 20’s from Green Briar Park on Chicago’s far north side. While the roster did change somewhat over the years, new players were also typically neighborhood guys rather than ringers who could upset team chemistry. It was this decision that limited the …
Louis Watkins, the owner of Louis’s Lounge located on the southwest side, sponsored the Patio Players to play competitively in 1979. The guys were always at the Lounge in the back on the patio, hence the name (Patio Players). During the early years, they never had a particularly strong program. Then the team began a …
Six of the original softball players started in little league together when they were in Braeside School, in 1973! In 1983 they played in a competitive Highland Park league which at the time had 24 teams with three levels, A, B and C leagues. The team moved up from the C League to the A League in 5 …
