TANZANIA NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUEANNUAL REPORT 2023

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Introduction
Embracing a Legacy of DISCIPLINE, JUSTICE and RESPECT. TANZANIA NATIONAL
BASEBALL LEAGUE ( TNBL ).
Established in 2023, Tanzania National Baseball League has flourished into a beloved
cornerstone of our community, embodying the values of sportsmanship, teamwork, andpersonal growth. What began as a passionate Endeavor to nurture a love for baseball hasevolved into a thriving platform that not only hones athletic prowess but also fosters character
development among players of all ages.
Our league's journey is one steeped in history and impact. Tanzania National Baseball League
was born out of a shared vision to create a space where budding athletes could discover theirpotential, forge lifelong friendships, and learn the vital life skills embedded within the spirit ofsports. Over the years, we've cultivated a rich tapestry of achievements and memories that
resonate with players, families, and fans alike.
Central to our league's mission is the belief that sports transcend the boundaries of age,background, and skill level. Every game we play, every pitch we throw, and every cheer weshare is a testament to the unity that baseball brings to our community. It's not just about thecompetition on the field; it's about building a resilient network of individuals who strive forexcellence, both in their athletic pursuits and in their contributions to society.
Our league's significance extends far beyond the diamond. We've become an emblem ofcommunity strength, drawing families together for weekends filled with excitement,
camaraderie, and the thrill of competition. The impact of Tanzania National Baseball League
reaches into local schools, where aspiring players find mentors and role models among ourdedicated coaches. It touches local businesses that find pride in supporting our league's growthand celebrating our players' accomplishments.
As we move forward, our commitment to excellence remains unwavering. Every season, everygame, and every participant is a testament to our enduring legacy. We invite you to be part ofthis narrative, to contribute to the story of Tanzania National Baseball League, and to join us
in shaping the future of sportsmanship, unity, and community engagement. Together, we'llcontinue to create a legacy that resonates through the generations, on and off the field.

1.1 Number of Teams, Divisions, and Participants
Currently, our league boasts an impressive 4 teams namely TIGERS, DRAGONS, FIGHTERS
and GIANTS. This diversity ensures that players of all ages and skill levels have a platform tocultivate their love for baseball, hone their abilities, and form lasting connections. All
participants represent a wide spectrum of demographics, spanning ages 15 – 30 . From theyoungest rookies discovering the joy of their first catch to seasoned veterans displaying
unmatched finesse on the field, Tanzania National Baseball League is a true melting pot oftalent and aspiration.

1.2 Age Ranges and Demographics of Players
Our league is a microcosm of the community we serve. Players as young as 15 years old taketheir first steps onto the field, infused with excitement and a sense of wonder. As age
progresses, so do the challenges and accomplishments, with players in their 20’s demonstrating
remarkable prowess and leadership. The demographic diversity within our league mirrors themosaic of our community, bringing together individuals from various backgrounds, cultures,and walks of life. It is this very diversity that enriches our league, fostering understanding andforging friendships beyond the diamond.

1.3 Achievements and Notable Events
Our league's journey is peppered with achievements that stand as milestones in our pursuit ofexcellence. From captivating championship victories that resonate with players and fans alike,to the heart-warming stories of growth and perseverance, each moment contributes to ourleague's tapestry. We've hosted memorable events, including Zanzibar Open Cup and Swahili
Cup, which brought together families, fans, and players to celebrate the spirit of baseball andcommunity.
Our players' accomplishments extend beyond the diamond, as we take pride in nurturing wellrounded individuals who excel academically, socially, and athletically. The Player Exchange
Program we did with Czech Republic reflect our commitment to holistic development,
investing in the leaders of tomorrow.
Tanzania National Baseball League's journey has been marked by more than just victories andscores. It's a journey of personal growth, relationships forged, and a shared commitment topreserving the values that make sports an embodiment of human spirit. Our league is a canvas
painted with the hues of aspiration, camaraderie, and collective achievement – a testament toour enduring legacy.

CHAPTER 2TANZANIA NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE (TNBL)
ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM
1.The TNBL system has the following systems which include Scoring system,
League structure and Umpiring system.
i.

THE LEAGUE STRUCTURE
The TNBL structure is divided into Seasons and the Championship, in which there are
two (2) seasons, in each of the season the 4 teams teams meet for round robing games
after the games the Winner of the First (1) Season meet the winner of the Second (2)Season. In which the Winner in the First Season was TIGERS BASEBALL CLUB andthe Winner of the Second Season was DRAGONS BASEBALL CLUB, in which at theend of the Second Season one day before KOSHIEN COMPETITION these two (3)Clubs played the Tanzania National Baseball Champions Game in which TIGERS
BASEBALL CLUB Won the match against DRAGONS BASEBALL CLUB at one
Score ahead (4-3). The seasons include such as, Season one (1) which starts fromAPRIL to JULY and the Second Season started on AUGUST to OCTOBER. Ourgames are mostly done on two (2) days and mainly done on weekends which are
Saturday and Sunday afternoon time (3pm /15hrs to 5pm/17 hrs).
TANZANIA NATIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE (TNBL)
FIRST ROUND APRIL – JULY 2023

DATE

TEAM

TEAM

29/04

GIANTSVSTIGERS

30/04

DRAGONSVSFIGHTERS

06/05

GIANTSVSDRAGONS

07/05

TIGERSVSFIGHTERS

13/05

GIANTSVSFIGHTERS

14/05DRAGONSVS

TIGERS

27/05

TIGERSVS

GIANTS

28/05

FIGHTERSVSDRAGONS

03/06

DRAGONSVS

GIANTS

04/06

FIGHTERSVSTIGERS

10/06

FIGHTERSVSGIANTS

11/06

TIGERSVSDRAGONS

24/06

GIANTSVSTIGERS

25/06

DRAGONSVSFIGHTERS

01/07

GIANTSVSDRAGONS

02/07

TIGERSVSFIGHTERS

08/07

GIANTSVSFIGHTERS

09/07

DRAGONSVS

TIGERSSECOND ROUND AUGUST – OCTOBER 2023
DATE

TEAM

TEAM

05/08

TIGERSVS

GIANTS

06/08

FIGHTERSVSDRAGONS

12/08

DRAGONSVS

GIANTS

13/08

FIGHTERSVSTIGERS

19/08

FIGHTERSVSGIANTS

20/08

TIGERSVSDRAGONS02/09GIANTSVSTIGERS

03/09

DRAGONSVSFIGHTERS

09/09

GIANTSVSDRAGONS

10/09

TIGERSVSFIGHTERS

16/09GIANTS

VS

FIGHTERS

17/09

DRAGONSVSTIGERS

30/09

TIGERSVS

GIANTS

01/10

FIGHTERSVSDRAGONS

07/10

DRAGONSVSGIANTS

08/10

FIGHTERSVSTIGERS

14/10

FIGHTERSVSGIANTS

15/10

TIGERSVSDRAGONSii.

UMPIRING SYSTEM
In the First year of the TNBL LEAGUE, the league operated with 2 umpire and 3umpire system, these umpires helped a lot to run the league despite of the difficulties
to run the game. We had home plate umpire, 1 & 2 base umpires in place to make surethe right call is been proclaimed which are out or safe to maintain the three (3)principles of Baseball Tanzania which are discipline, Respect and Justice.

iii.

SCORING SYSTEM
The League operates with the helpful of these individuals who keep day to day scoresof the games, through out the league. The scoring team used all the signs to indicate
and analyse the games for better record keeping despite the full knowledge aboutscoring. In our year of 2023 the scoring system wasn’t so good due to lack of Serious
and knowledge (skilled) individual, lack of some few scorers who were occupied withother life affairs like schools and jobs and also lack of the players attendance to theground for implementing the games as per the schedule recommended.

2. RECORDS OF THE GAMESThe following are the records done by our scorers which shows the game results for theTanzania National Baseball League (TNBL), here we have overall results of all Four (4) teams
For Season One (01) which started on 24/04/2023 and ended at 09/07/2023.
DATE

GAMES

WINNERLOSERSCORERS

24/04/2023 GIANTS VS TIGERS

TIGERS

GIANTS

19 - 00

25/04/2023

FIGHTERSDRAGONS

11 - 04

DRAGONS

GIANTS

09 - 00

TIGERSFIGHTERS

25 - 08

DRAGONS

TIGERS

10 - 08

FIGHTERS

GIANTS

13 -12DRAGONS

16 - 13

TIGERS

GIANTS

15 - 02

VS FIGHTERS

TIGERS

09 - 07

VS DRAGONSGIANTS

09 – 04

VS TIGERSDRAGONS

09 - 07

VS FIGHTERS

GIANTS

09 - 00

TIGERS

GIANTS

18 - 01

VS DRAGONSFIGHTERS

14 - 10VS DRAGONSGIANTS

09 - 00

FIGHTERS VS
DRAGONS

06/05/2023

DRAGONS VS
GIANTS

07/05/2023

TIGERS VS
FIGHTERS

13/05/2023

DRAGONS VS
TIGERS

14/05/2023

GIANTS VS
FIGHTERS

27/05/2023 DRAGONSVS FIGHTERSFIGHTERS
28/05/2023 TIGERS VS GIANTS
03/06/2023 FIGHTERSTIGERS
04/06/2023 DRAGONSGIANTS
10/06/2023 DRAGONSFIGHTERS
11/06/2023 FIGHTERS
GIANTS
24/06/2023 GIANTS VS TIGERS
25/06/2023 DRAGONSFIGHTERS
01/07/2023 GIANTS
DRAGONS02/07/2023 TIGERS

VS TIGERSFIGHTERS

09 - 00

VS FIGHTERS

GIANTS

09 - 04

VS TIGERSDRAGONS

13 - 07

FIGHTERS
08/07/2023 FIGHTERS
GIANTS
09/07/2023 DRAGONSTIGERS

END OF SEASON ONE (01) AND TNBL BREAK FOR ALL TEAMS TO PREPARE FORSECOND (02) SEASONTNBL TEAM RANKINGS FOR THE SEASON ONE YEAR 2023.

TNBL PLAYERS TOP SCORER TOP SCORERS FOR SEASON ONE.

The TNBL SEASON TWO (02) Started at 19/08/2023 and ended at 29/010/2023, in which
each team has another opportunity to battle and attain victory the results were as follows below:GAMES

WINNER

LOSER
DROO

19/08/2023 TIGERS

VS

03 - 03

GIANTS
20/08/2023 DRAGONSFIGHTERSSCOERSBOTHVS DRAGONSFIGHTERS

19 - 01

26/08/2023 DRAGONSVS DRAGONSGIANTS

21 - 05

VS FIGHTERS

TIGERS

09 - 00

VS GIANTS

FIGHTERS

15 - 02

VS DRAGONSTIGERS

08 - 04

VS GIANTS

TIGERS

16 - 11

VS DRAGONSFIGHTERS

14 - 00

VS DRAGONSGIANTS

07 – 04

VS TIGERSFIGHTERS

10 - 05

VS FIGHTERS

GIANTS

09 - 00

VS DRAGONSTIGERS

14 - 06

VS GIANTS

TIGERS

09 - 00

VS DRAGONSFIGHTERS

09-05

VS GIANTSDRAGONS

15 - 02

VS GIANTS

FIGHTERS

09 - 00

VS TIGERSFIGHTERS

15 - 05

VS DRAGONSTIGERS

09 - 00

GIANTS
27/08/2023 FIGHTERS
TIGERS
02/09/2023 GIANTS
FIGHTERS
03/09/2023 TIGERS
DRAGONS
09/09/2023 TIGERS
GIANTS
10/09/2023 DRAGONSFIGHTERS
16/09/2023 GIANTS
DRAGONS
17/09/2023 TIGERS
FIGHTERS
07/10/2023 GIANTS
FIGHTERS
08/10/2023 DRAGONSTIGERS
14/10/2023 TIGERS
GIANTS
15/10/2023 FIGHTERSDRAGONS
21/10/2023 DRAGONSGIANTS
22/10/2023 FIGHTERS
GIANTS
28/10/2023 TIGERS
FIGHTERS
29/10/2023 TIGERS
DRAGONSTNBL TEAM RANKINGS FOR THE SEASON TWO YEAR 2023.

TNBL TOP SCORER RUN UPS SEASON TWO YEAR 2023.
NAMEHITSTEAMABBAS RASHID

11DRAGONSWILLIAM NDONGOZI11DRAGONSYOMODA RYUSEL

10GIANTSHASSAN RAMADHANI

08

DRAGONSALLY HAMDAN

07

DRAGONSBROWN TITO

07

DRAGONSMAKWAIYA HUSSEIN

07

GIANTSANTAR OMAR

06

DRAGONSBARAKA JOHN

06

DRAGONSJACKSON WAZUNGU

06

GIANTSMANYAMA

The TNBL Championship GameThe Tanzania National baseball League (TNBL) held its first championship at 08/12/2023 priorbeforetheKOSHIENCHAMPIONSHIPSGAMES

forsecondaryschools.

THE FIRST & THE SECOND TNBL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSThe TNBL championship games featured winner of the first Season which is TIGERS
BASEBALL CLUB and the winner of the Second Season which was DRAGONS BASEBALL
CLUB, these two clubs teams battled each other but unfortunate TIGERS BASEBALL CLUBwon the Championship against DRAGONS BASEBALL CLUB by four to three (4 – 3).

TNBL MOST VALUABLE PLAYER (MVP)In the championships we managed to get the MOST VALUABLE PLAYER (MVP) who wasMr.

NATHAN MAHUNDI from TIGERS BASEBALL, who showed a great player

performance in the field and also outside the field by his effort of encouraging his team andplayers to continue winning despites the game situations.

THE MOST DSCIPLINED PLAYER (MDP)
The committee of TNBL managed to award a prize for the MOST DISCIPLINED PLAYER(MDP), in which this prize went to a player of DRAGONS BASEBALL CLUB named as
ALPA MAISA. With his willingness efforts of applying the fundamentals of baseball both inthe field and out of the field these principles include DISCIPLINE, RESPECT and JUSTICE,
Alpha Maisa made it through the committee and was able to be awarded as such.

Picture showing APLHA MAISA on the right side with his Dragon Jersey wearing a red-white
spikes (shoes).

FUTURE PLANS
The TNBL committee is waiting for the upcoming season of 2024 for its club leagues matches
in which the committee is willing and able to push to the league to be known to all the Tanzania
people through medias, increase player development, team improvement and potential rosterchange. Also, through this implementation of the goals the committee will be able to acquiredifferent funds from different individuals, institutions and organization to be able to meet its
day to day running activities. Last be not least it’s to meet its main goal of becoming a great
baseball league in the country for the next twenty-nine years to come.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We as the Tanzania National Baseball League (TNBL), we take this opportunity to give thanks
to all the four club teams which participated in the League with there untiring time andavailability to make the league run as per the schedule planned. With another grateful thank toour association of Tanzania Baseball and Softball Association (TaBSA) with the collaboration
with Japan Africa Baseball & Softball Foundation (J-ABS), who made it possible to come up
with this amazing idea and their willingness efforts to help us to achieve this league by
promoting knowledge, equipment’s and administrative skills. Also, I would like to grants thisthanks to all the officials the umpires and scorers who judged and recorded the games in ajustice and fair without favoring any club team and the committee is looking forward in theupcoming 2024-year season to continue offering their support to make the league run well.
Lastly but not least I would like to take this opportunity to give warm thanks to all our funs
who were able to come to the grounds and watch these league games and also participate in theonline platform to like, comment and share what we post through the life of the League, weargue our funs to keep on the good work and continue to help us spreading this new to otherpeople at large.