Updates for 2018 Season
We are excited to finally open registration to new players for the 2024 season!
The Field of Dreamers Cooperative Softball Association was formed in 2017 with the intention of creating a recreational softball space based on the principles of mutual aid, body liberation, and radical re-imagining of sport. We invite you to be part of this history!
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Have you ever wanted to join a softball league, but were too intimidated or worried you weren’t athletic enough to play?
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Summer wandered back into our lives to grace us with beautiful weather for the final game of another successful Field of Dreamers season. As we tuck this season in, draw the comfy sheets, and play some soft music on 2018, let us remember the spirit that ran through the Credit River Comrades, the Don River Valley Cats, the Humber River Humdingers, and the Rouge River Blush. Each of you gave to this league in an immensely spirited way and we are thankful to all of our players, subs, fans, and volunteers who help make each season possible.
Despite the sleepy start, the two final games were filled with action that was modulated by the affable Robin Smillie who took the mic to call play-by-play for both matches and her hosts Colin Hastings and Andrew Stokes who provided thrilling colour commentary!! But the real question remained, would the Comrades make one final push at the Eastern door to secure the bronze medal game or would the Valley Cats scratch and claw their way back into the third spot? Would the Humber River Humdingers be singing “We Are the Champions” or would the Rouge River Blush make all their doubters hush?
If you are curious as to the results then you’ll have to keep reading to find out!
Continue reading “2018 Playoffs – Championships – September 16 2018”
Tropical depression Gordon hung low as the wind swirled and the skyline was filled with pink, blue, and purple luminescence. Some gentle soul had already decorated SkyDome with pastel streamers as though they knew that the Dreamers would be taking the field for an extra special occasion. It was the magic of playoff baseball, where puppies grow to be puppers and bugles sound the coming of fall. Where Valley Cats howl at the night sky and Comrades prepare for the October Revolution. Where Blush ready themselves for homecoming and Humdingers…um….keep humming? Anyway, it is a beautiful and glorious time and the rains held out so that for yet another week we could all make baseball together.
In the spirit of the playoffs, captains readied themselves, with one sending out this little sweet note, ” Not that I think we are in short supply of generosity as a team at all but, sometimes the play-offs bring out our more competitive sides. While it is certainly fun and engaging to have high stakes situations and to perform at one’s best, we also want to remember the priorities of this league. Let’s keep being generous to the other teams and to one another. We’re still all in this together!”
And together they began under the grey dusk of fall.
If you are curious as to the results then you’ll have to keep reading to find out!
Since their first game with the Uncertainty in 2014, Jo Jefferson has racked up a number of memorable plays and their next hit will be a big one as they are charging towards 100 career hits, becoming the 15th Dreamer to reach this feat.
Continue reading “The Dreamer’s Tribune: Jo’s Journey to 100”