It was very gratifying to recently receive this award from AABC(inscription below). AABC was our league's first affiliation and remains our largest. I share this award with my fellow Board Members as well as our many dedicated members, who have worked hard to provide a quality baseball experience for their players.Ed Frye, President ~ ENYTB Upper ... read more

ENYTB has liberalized its sanctioned tournament registration options this year. Teams are now eligible to win berths in multiple sanctioned tournaments (in the past teams were limited to participation in a single sanctioned tournament). In addition, all sanctioning choices are now optional (in the past AABC was mandatory). The complete formalized v... read more

AABC has enacted three new rules that all members should be aware of. These rules apply to AABC sanctioned tournaments only.(1) The -3 restriction on bat length-weight differentials has been rescinded for the Sandy Koufax Division at both Koufax 13 and Koufax 14.I think this is a good idea at 13U and is OK at 14U on 90' diamonds but AABC plays its 14U tournaments on 80' diamonds. (2) Slide or avoid contact.No more running into the catcher. This rule change is consistent with the regular season playing rules enacted last year by ENYTB.(3) Post-season player rights belong to the team on which the player first played that year. This includes pre-season practice games.AABC allows players to play on multiple regular season teams, either in different leagues and/or different age divisions but they can participate in only one AABC sanctioned tournament series each year. Under this new rule, when a player qualifies on multiple teams, his tournament rights now belong to the team for whom he played for first in that season. Last season we had a 15U team whose star player also played on a 16U team in another AABC league. That player appeared in the 16U AABC State Tournament and was ruled ineligible for the 15U tournament. Under the new rule, the team that can show a dated scorebook with the player participating in a game on the earliest date, will have exclusive tournament rights to that player. This ruling makes it advantageous for teams to schedule a practice game (with umps) as early as possible before the regular season begins.

TOURNAMENT OF STARSLast summer, a two-out single in the eighth inning drove in the tie-breaking run as the AABC All-Stars rallied to edge RBI 5-4 and capture the gold medal in the Ninth Annual Tournament of Stars at historic Joe Becker Stadium. This was AABC's 2nd consecutive gold medal in this highly prestigious national event.AABC has launched it... read more

(1) All players and coaches must display a unique number on the back of their uniform shirt.(2) 18U Division - Wood bats, wood composite or laminated wood bats, will be required in NABF 18U tournament play, as described under rule 9.05(B).The 2005 NABF Rule Book is distributed to leagues following receipt of 2005 registration fees. ENYTB usually re... read more

NABF has announced that its highly prestigious High School Division (17U) World Series will be hosted in Greensboro, North Carolina this year. For the last 10 years this tournament has been played in Millington, TN. Last year Double Play Baseball represented the ENYTB at this tournament.Some of the playing sites set aside for this event include:Sto... read more

It has been League practice in years past for the home team to pay the umps and provided the baseballs, except at 12U where both teams split. The old policy made it important that teams played an evenly divided home and away schedule, especially if they had no concessions. With the growth of the League and the increased utilization of many baseball... read more

In previous years, George Smith, ENYTB Senior Vice-President, and myself, have traveled to Cooperstown in the wee hours of Jan 2 to stand in line to hand deliver the league's application for field time on Doubleday. Unfortunately, The Village of Cooperstown has given us only a single game each of the last two years. Thus, we will be discontinuing t... read more

Becuase, the ENYTB is hosting NABF Regionals at 14U, 16U and 18U this year, we will dedicate one berth in the 14U NABF Regional to the 13U Gold division as a special wildcard berth. Similarly, one berth in the 16U NABF Regional will be dedicated to the 15U Gold division, as a special wildcard berth. This will give our very best team in each of thes... read more

Sanctioned tournament information is important to you in order to make the right registration selections.Click the Sanctioned Tournaments menu bar on the left (Front Page) to see all sanctioned tournaments available through the ENYTB in 2005.NABF has released all its tournament dates and sites for 2005. Our website has been updated to reflects that... read more