The game ‘first awoke’ at Royal with the donation of Baseball equipment in the latter part of 1984 and with the first Baseball team selected in 1985. It is also important to note that Royal College Baseball was created in the same year as the governing body for Baseball in the country, the Sri Lanka Amateur Baseball Association.
The Royal College team, captained by K.M.C Fernando, emerged runners-up at the first National Baseball Championship. At that time, the tournament was categorized as ‘Men’s Open’ and had no age limit for the players. K. A

Elle is a traditional Sri Lankan sport similar to Baseball. There are 16 players on a side, and they play in single innings. Traditionally Elle has two innings per side, but modern Elle games are limited to 50 ball matches. An Elle field is twice the size of a baseball field. The batter can be struck out with three strikes (as in Baseball), but there is no strike zone. If the batter runs a round nonstop, it is called a run.

Elle at The Royal College was started in 2004 by Viraj Hettiarachchi. During that period, the principal of the College was Mr. Upali Gunasekara. Since then, Royal College has emerged champions in circuit and zonal tournaments many times. Mr. Gunawardhana is the current coach.