The Outfield began playing together in the early 80's in the East End of London original as The Baseball Boys.  They played a series of concerts in a variety of configurations over the early years, recorded a couple of demos which made their way into the hands of CBS/Columbia Records in the United States.  They were signed to a record deal and began recording the album which would be called Play Deep in 1985.

Play Deep was released in the USA and spawned 4 singles from the CD; Say It Isn't So, Your Love, All the Love in the World and Everytime You Cry.  The gang hit the road for a huge summer tour with Starship and Journey.

With Play Deep still charting singles, in 1986 The Outfield went back into the studio to record their follow up album, Bangin', which resulted in the two hit singles Since You've Been Gone and the powerful ballad No Surrender.  They hit the road, "Bangin' Across America", as the tour was called.  They played shows in support of Night Ranger this time.

The band released their third album late in 1988 and hit the charts with the album's title tune, Voices of Babylon.  Voices was a departure from the bands signature sound and some consider this the bands best and most complete CD.  However, the sound wasn't the only thing changing in The Outfield's world as Alan Jackman decided to leave the band for personal reasons before the tour mounted.  The Outfield hired skilled and energetic drummer, Paul Reid, to fill in for the tour and launched a successful tour with Mike & the Mechanics.

The Outfield would also depart from their record company, Columbia/CBS Records at this point in their career to sign with MCA Records.  The band was now a duo and John and Tony began to experiment with electronic drums and plugging in a session drummer, Simon Dawson.  Their 4th album, Diamond Days was released in 1990.  This album was definately a different sound then any of their previous releases.  It was decidedly more electronic and less guitar driven.  It spawned one of their biggest hits, For You which struck a chord with the US service people and their families.  Because of the Gulf War, The Outfield did not tour in support of Diamond Days.

They instead returned to the studio to record their 5th album and 2nd with MCA, Rockeye.  The sound was decidedly more upbeat and rock and roll then Diamond Days and spawned the singles Closer To Me and the sports anthem Winning It All  which found it's way into several NBA Championship games and The Mighty Ducks III soundtrack as well as being a regular choice during sports broadcasts.

As the 90's wore on, the pop/rock genre seemed to fade away, The Outfield along with it.  The band took a few years off out of the lime light, but continued writing and recording music.  Over the years, the Internet became a driving force for lost fans of not-current music.  Bands such as Duran Duran, The Cars, Motley Crue and many others have had their careers revitalized because of Internet fan support.  The Outfield would be no different.  Outfield fan sites popped up here and there on the Internet, until one run by Danny Roberts began to become the defacto fan site.   The band and Danny formed a reltaionship and Danny became instumental in getting the guys to the fans and it resulted in several tours and CDs.  Since Danny, John and Tony got together The Outfield has released It Ain't Over, Extra Innings (Unreleased), Live in Brazil and their first official release in over a decade Any Time Now.  While much of the material in the studio releases were songs written and recorded for fun and to keep their juices flowing, they represent a great cross-section of the band's sound and influences.  They recorded most of these tracks with Simon Dawson on the drums and he became an official member of the band along the way.  Simon has since parted ways with the guys, but his influence and solid drumming have added much to our enjoyment of the music these past 10 years.

Shortly after the release of Any Time Now and reworking of the official website (www.theoutfield.com) in early 2004 the band went quiet again.  Fans waited patiently for the band to bring us some news, and as always -- they came through!  The Outfield recently began releasing the long awaited Live 2003 CD FREE Online and released a revised version of Any Time Now on Sidewinder Records with 4 new tracks in addition to the previous content.