Redcliffe Softball Executive committee
President......Stephen Fee
Vice President....Stephen Wagner
Secretary.....Kerri Davies
Treasurer....Sherril Adams
History of Softball in Redcliffe.......
In 1962, Betty Paxton together with June Horne set a meeting to ascertain the level of interest in Redcliffe for Softball, with the help of Audrey McLaughlin they took the first steps of starting softball in Redcliffe and the surrounding areas.
Betty a member of Redcliffe PCYC, asked the PCYC Committee for assistance to equip a team and with the help also of the local Lions club committee member Mr Les Barlow, this was achieved.
The first year Redcliffe fielded 3 teams in the Brisbane competition...with its grounds based at the Redcliffe PCYC Grounds, over the years the grounds have moved all over the peninsula, Langdon Park, Clontarf Beach State School, The old baseball grounds at the show grounds in Redcliffe, before finally to the current site of the Betty Paxton Fields on Boardman Road..
While playing in the Brisbane competition the Redcliffe PCYC Softball Club grew to 14 teams at the time the largest softball club in Queensland, it was inevitable that with the number of teams and experience of coaches and officials behind the club thoughts would turn to starting a Softball Association on the Redcliffe Peninsula...in 1984 the first fixtures of the newly formed Redcliffe Softball Association took place at Boardman Oval (PCYC Grounds) . A shed and a Redcliffe Lions Club van served as the first canteen, Les Oakey provided a discarded booth from a shopping centre and turned it into the first R and D Bar..
The Association grew quickly to 100 teams, so bigger grounds were needed, Redcliffe City Council was approached and grounds were found at the old rubbish tip in Redcliffe after it had been capped and grassed. The first games where played at the new grounds in late 1998 also as a result of the shift to the new grounds Redcliffe won the right to host the 1999 Pacific International Fast Pitch Tournament.
In 2012 it will be 50 years since Betty Paxton and June Horne started the idea of playing Softball on the Redcliffe Peninsula, Softball in Redcliffe has come along way from the days when Betty Paxton used to drive players to Brisbane in her car for games to what it is today.