by Baseball.pl, www.baseball.pl
Last week, since 20th to 25th July, group of 35 volunteers from all Poland were beating the Guinness World Record in the longest softball marathon. The game was played in Osielsko near Bydgoszcz, Poland. Official record was established in 30th June – 5th July 2009, in Waskatenau, Alberta (Canada) – it was 115 hours and 3 minutes.
The game started at Tuesday, July 20th, at midday. First few hours were very balanced, but at night team Lemons achieved high advantage. Green Team tied at Thursday, but finally Lemons won the longest softball marathon 627 to 594. Both teams played 121 hours and 11 minutes (521 innings).
Volunteers played in hard conditions. First three days were sunny and cloudless, and maximum temperature was 45 Celsius degrees. Then, at Friday it start raining – at night thermometer pointed only 15 Celsius degrees. The best weather was at Sunday – there was about 20 Celsius degree, no rain and no sun.
The event have a widespread impact in Polish media. Almost all the time there was journalist and photographers at the field. It was main goal of this game, and Organizers of the event said, that was successful. Information about beating Guinness Record attempt appeared in many newspapers, radio & tv stations, including news in two nationwide TV’s at Sunday.
Photogallery (over 250 pictures)
Video account (over 40 minutes):
ROSTERS:
LEMONS
Baumgart Jacek (Dęby Osielsko) [COACH & CAPTAIN]
Czerwiński Mateusz (Dęby Osielsko)
Czerwiński Mikołaj (Dęby Osielsko)
Gralak Sławek (Dęby Osielsko)
Gralak Paweł
Macniak Mateusz (Dęby Osielsko)
Makowski Jakub (Pasikoniki Warszawa)
Markowska Maja (Dęby Osielsko)
Markowska Marta (Dęby Osielsko)
Modliński Miłlosz (Dęby Osielsko)
Nowak Mariusz (Pasikoniki Warszawa)
Rębelski Tomasz (Pasikoniki Warszawa)
Rysiawa Michał (Pasikoniki Warszawa)
Snopek Łukasz (Dęby Osielsko)
Szydlik Adrian (Pasikoniki Warszawa)
Śmigiel Anna (Dęby Osielsko)
Zieliński Adam (Dęby Osielsko)
GREEN TEAM
Gryczka Piotr (Diament Piła)
Grzanowski Mariusz (Stal Kutno) [CAPTAIN]
Kątna Magdalena (Dęby Osielsko)
Kubiak Maksymilian
Łukomski Arkadiusz (Demony Miejska Górka) [COACH]
Noska Patryk
Nowicka Alicja
Osiński Jakub (KSSP Bełchatów)
Snopek Joanna (Dęby Osielsko)
Suliński Bartosz (Dęby Osielsko)
Szwajkowski Robert (Comets Mazowsze)
Szydłowski Bartłomiej
Teska Bartosz (Dęby Osielsko)
Trzpiot Łukasz (Baza Bydgoszcz)
Wilczyński Rafał
Wiśniewski Miłosz (Diament Piła)
Zajda Marcin
Zagożdżon Radosław (Dęby Osielsko)
“Green Team tied at Thursday” 😀