Shakopee Baseball Association

Did you know that the High School JV team finished the year undefeated?  Congratulations to Coach Schmitz and team.

Congratulations to the following baseball players that were awarded scholarships from Shakopee Dollars for Scholars:

• Nick Mendez (Iowa State University ) - Shakopee Youth Baseball Association
• Scott Bode (St. Johns) – Nathan Theis Memorial
• Matt Conrad (Bethel) – Shakopee Sabers Football Club
• Zak Hoffmann (St. Cloud State) – Shakopee Rotary

Attention Parents of Traveling Baseball Players ages 10 to 15: Online Volunteer Sign-up is now available for the following events:

·         14/15A and 14AAA games – June 9 at Schleper Stadium

·         14AA, 15AA and 15AAA games – June 23 at Schleper Stadium

·         Shakopee Traveling Tournament for 10, 11, and 12 yr olds – June 22-24 at Tahpah Park and Muenchow Fields. Schedule of games can be found at http://www.shakopeeyouthbaseball.com/page/show/61570-shakopee-tournament

·         In House Tournament for Little League, Minor League and Valley League – July 21 at Tahpah Park

·         Legion District Tournament – July 25 and 26 at Schleper Stadium

·         Legion State Tournament – August 3 at Schleper Stadium

The volunteer signup link can be found at http://www.shakopeeyouthbaseball.com/dib_sessions/show/3447

·         Concessions - selling concessions and making change

·         Grills – flipping burgers and hotdogs

·         Floaters – filling in for hot spots, running errands

·         Grounds Crew – raking infields and chalking baselines between games

·         Scoreboard Operator – run the scoreboard at Schleper Stadium – some instructions will be provided

·         Announcer – announce batters and play music between innings – some instructions will be provided

·         Ticket Taker – sell tickets at Legion District and State Tournaments

Please read the description of each job to make sure you know what you are signing up for. For example, if you sign up to work grounds crew, be prepared to get a little dirty as pushing a rake in June can get a little dusty. Please do not sign up for an activity you don’t think you can complete.

Hosting these events is the main fundraiser conducted by the SYBA. It takes an incredible amount of volunteer help to pull off events of this size successfully. Your volunteer requirement this year is 6 hours per player (12 hour family maximum). This includes those Shakopee Teams that do not participate in the Shakopee Tournament. In house, Valley League and Sr. Valley League players do not have to work volunteer hours.

When you fulfill your six hour (two 3 hour shifts) obligation, we will destroy your deposit check. We do not want to cash your deposit check. We do want your time to help run a successful tournament that reflects positively on the Shakopee Baseball Community and provide a positive experience for hundreds of baseball players ages 8-18.

Signup is on a first come, first serve basis. While we will try to honor the volunteer shifts currently listed, weather, no shows, cancellations and other unforeseen changes may require us to change some of the volunteer shifts. We ask for your understanding and flexibility should the need for a change arise. If you do not sign up for a volunteer shift by June 1, we will assign you one.

We do expect the time slot to be covered by an adult. No teenagers please. This is relatively simple work but without it, our fund-raising efforts will fail. It is your responsibility to work your shift or find someone who can.

If you have been selected to be a head coach, assistant coach, team manager or grounds crew for a traveling or tournament team, you will need to go into Dibs and claim responsibility for your team and your title. These activities have an as of date of August 4, 2012 so filter the data so you can see these opportunities.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Allen Larson (savagelarsons@yahoo.com)

The SYBA Board and players would like to thank you for your willingness to give your time. Without you, there would not be a youth baseball program in Shakopee.

Go Sabers!

We are still taking registrations for the following levels:

Mighty Mites (2nd Grade)
Little League (3rd Grade)
Valley League (6th and 7th Grades)
 

Minor League (4th and 5th Grades) are closed.  We have created a waiting list in case someone decides to drop.

Jun 22-24 - Shakopee Tournament

Jul 21 - In House Tournament

Updated 11/15/11 - For the 2012 MBT/MBL season all bats in the 10 ? 14 year old age group, big barrel bats must have the NEW USSSA Approved 1.15 BPF stamp on its taper, Babe Ruth Approved 1.15 BPF stamp or BBCOR stamp. For small barrel bats (2 1/4") use all of the above stamps or you can also use bats that have the old approved USSSA mark. 15 year olds must use a BBCOR bat (Batted Ball Coefficient or Restitution). See link below. 

http://www.usssa.com/usssa/usssa-general/NewUSSSABaseballBatMarks.pdf

Please check Metro Baseball website (https://www.mbl.bz/mbl/) for additional bat information.

This is your first game, son.  I hope you win.  I hope you win, for your sake, not mine, because winning is nice.  It’s a good feeling, like the whole world is yours.  But it passes, this feeling.  What lasts is what you’ve learned.

And what you learn is life.  That’s what sports are all about.  Life.  The whole thing is played out in front of you.  The ups and the downs.  Life.  The happiness.  The miseries.  The joys.  The heartbreak.

There’s no real telling of how you’ll do.  You may be a hero, or maybe you won’t.  There’s just no telling.  Some of what will happen depends on chance, on how the ball bounces.  But you can control how you react to it.  Stay positive.  Persevere.  Good things eventually happen to good people.

I’m not just talking about the game, son.  I’m talking about life.  It’s life that the game is all about.

Every game is life, and life is a game.  A serious one, completely serious.

But that’s what you do with serious things.  You do your best.  You take what comes.  You take what comes and you run with it.  You work hard.

Winning is fun, sure.  But winning is not the point.  Wanting to win is the point.  Not giving up is the point.  Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.  Never letting up is the point.  Never letting anyone down, including yourself, is the point.

Play to win.  Sure.  But lose like a champion.  It’s not the winning that counts.  What counts is trying . . . try your absolute best.

Tourney for all three levels (A, AA, AAA) of 10’s, 11’s and 12’s

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Many years ago Manager Joe McCarthy wrote his ten baseball commandments.  Young ball players - and old ones as well - had best heed the McCarthy commandments.  They are pearls of wisdom.

 1.  Nobody ever became a ball player by walking after a ball.

 2.  You will never become a .300 hitter unless you take the bat off your shoulder.

 3.  Keep your head up and you may not have to hold it down.

 4.  Outfielders who throw a ball back of a runner lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

 5.  When you start to slide, slide.  He who changes his mind may change a good leg for a broken one.

 6.  Don’t alibi on the bad hops.  Anybody can field the good ones.

 7.  Always run them out.  You can never tell.

 8.  Don’t quit.  The game is never over until the last man is out.

 9.  Don’t find faults with umpires.  You can’t expect them to be as perfect as you.

 10.  A pitcher who hasn’t control, hasn’t anything.

A longtime high school coach explains why encouraging multi-sport participation is in everyone's best interest.