How baseball kept Bish on right track

RUGBY MATTERS
A weekly look at the game’s other talking points
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

Ken Poole, the head of economic development for Cardiff City Council, has just penned a short illustrated history of St Illtydians Baseball Club, which wouldn’t ordinarily concern this column overly ... except on closer inspection it is very much a rugby story as well.
Baseball used to be big in Wales and in particular Cardiff for a period during the 1980s when the Old Illtydians were among the best teams in the Principality and certainly the highest profile. The latter was because among their ranks were som...

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