There are people who play and a women’s team, but I personally don’t know anyone and I gave up about 11 years ago when I came here ‘cuz I had other stuff to deal with. In any case, there’s a site: http://www.softball.gr , an e-mail info@softball.gr and a phone number, which I assume you’ll need to speak Greek to call 210-698-0810

The U.S. Embassy puts together a team to play for charity, but these are usually employees. Beyond that, I’m sorry that I don’t have more inside information for you. I’ll leave your question here in case someone else stops by and can add to the discussion.

P.S. Tongue lashings usually occur because of readers’ rude behavior or laziness. Legitimate questions from nice people are always welcome.

ANYWAY, I’m not an American living in Athens, I’m a Canadian here for a couple months, but I’m desparately searching for just a little taste of home and thought you might know where to look. Specifically, I’m not sure I can go 2 months with warm weather and no softball. Yes, I will survive without it, but I brought my glove just in case. And I happen to throw alright (and not just for a girl).
On a side note, I really appreciate all of your insight into living here! Very useful. And I send you my condolences for all of the redundancy, and apologize in advance if my attention-span-of-a-goldfish search mechanisms have led me to miss something on your page that might have helped me!

Thanks again!

Thank you for your encouragement. It has been proposed by more than a dozen people in the business that I convert my story to a book. We’ll see what happens.

I appreciate you stopping in

Andy did warn me about the coins-as-weapons. And I thought Raiders fans were hardcore serious.

The other stat you should mention is that in Greece there are 13(?) sports newspapers and 2(?) serious newspapers. (I know I got the exact number wrong but not the ratio).

As a sidenote: it really sounds like you fell in love with the promise and history of Greece. It is a shame that it was unrequited love – your site reads like a James Joyce novel. Have you thought of converting your experiences to a semi-biographical novel? It sounds like you still have enough humor and love for what “could be” to lighten up the dark spots, so that people could enjoy it. I hope you give it a shot. Certainly you are collecting a lot of background research right now, and I will see you on Oprah’s Book of the Month club

that is all.