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2007 President: Gordon Matson
2007 Vice President: Victor Medici
2007 Player Agent: Mike MacArevey
Welcome to another exciting Baseball Season! This year we have over 30 teams
playing each other in the 5-8 year old range. With all of the additional games, we are now
playing on Monday nights!
We look forward to seeing you up
at the field. While we wait for Mother Nature to dry the fields we are
already busy getting the teams together and sponsors
all set-up. Be sure to look for details about the
new Booster Club, its your
chance to get involved with helping out in the League. We are always looking
for people who are willing to volunteer their time.
Please be sure to visit the
InGoodStandings site to see the schedules and sign up for ‘automatic
email’ notification about your team’s news and updates.
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NCYBA believes that in these age
divisions, the children should be assured of a non-competitive, FUN environment.
Our emphasis will to make baseball fun and
learning basic baseball skills.
In Rookies (5yr) and Minors(6yr), neither scores
or standing are maintained.
In the Junior League (7 & 8), in game scores are kept, standings are
tracked to determine seeding for the Round Robin Trophy Playoff series at the
end of the season.
All players share equal playing time - no
substitutions and no losers.
The Minor Division consists of three levels:
The Minor Division does NOT have a national
affiliation.
There are no All Star teams selected.
Frequently
Asked Questions:
Q: Although
my son is still tee ball age, I think he's
ready to step up an age group and play pitch ball with the older kids.
What do you think?
A: Why hurry? Your son's only 5 or 6 and has plenty of baseball ahead of him. Let's
remember that only part of the reason you had your son play tee ball was to give him a
sport to play. The other part of the reason you had him play tee ball was to expose him to
the game of baseball in a way that had
him focusing on the basic elements of what is arguably the most difficult
skill to master in baseball: hitting. Remember
that professional baseball players were hitting
baseballs off of tees long before the first tee ball team was formed to
improve their swings. The tee and the game of tee ball are first and
foremost instruments to aid in player development. The game of tee ball develops good habits
and some degree of muscle memory in players before pressure and the relative
absence of maturity force them into bad habits while doing whatever it takes
to put the bat on a pitched ball, whether that ball has been pitched by
a machine, a coach, or by another player. I'd leave him in tee ball with his peers.
Q: As a new coach, I need to learn some fun drills for my
players to get them interested in the game.
A: Drills can be fun, but that's not their purpose. They're designed
to focus on a particular skill in a manner that results
in a lot of repetitions in a relatively short period of time. Just as a weight lifter will focus on particular muscle groups in
his training, our drills focus on detailed aspects of fielding grounders, or
applying the tag, or turning to throw. Let's make sure we give these
kids credit; they're capable of learning a lot. They will tend to do better
than you or their parents think they can if YOU believe in them and help them
develop the skills. To keep them interested in the game, I'd
recommend you talk to them before practices and games about the day's goals,
and after practices and games about overall team goals and
relate them to "the big picture" in a way that gets them excited
about where they're headed in baseball. Bring in baseball cards and tie in the
day's lesson with a real life player's story to help make the point. You
might be surprised how many people in your community have some pro or college
experience that can be helpful to you too.
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Minor Division List
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Division
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Teams
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Schedules
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Goals
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Rookie
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