Independent Breakaway Years 1992-1994

Following the 1991 season, several teams from the South broke away from the British Baseball Federation to form a new league called National League Baseball (UK), although this was more commonly known as the Independent League.

The two teams who lead the breakaway were defending national champions, Enfield, and London. Others who joined them in the new NLB were Cambridge, Reading, Croydon Bluejays and Essex Eagles. The only Northern club to join were Birmingham.

After the first season, 1992, Reading returned back to the BBF fold, but the NLB added both Waltham Forest and Bury to replace them.

Then, after the second year, 1993, both Birmingham and Cambridge went back to the BBF. NLB didn't replace the two teams they had lost, but instead promoted both Tonbridge and RAF Lakenheath.

1994 proved to be the final year for the NLB, as three of it's teams folded during the season. The remaining clubs then rejoined the BBF to end three years of breakaway independent baseball.