ENYTB has always welcomed dual-participation by teams from other Leagues (a process known as double registrations). ENYTB provides these teams with additional opportunities for competitively balanced play and sanctioned tournament eligibility. Most of these teams also register with us to be eligible for NABF Regional tournaments hosted locally by ENYTB. ENYTB members benefit as well by having a greater diversity of opponents to play during the regular season. Double registration fees are less than regular registration because participation is viewed as supplemental to their primary League play and proceeds are used to help cover the costs of hosting sanctioned tournaments. Thus, double registration is a win-win for participants and the League.In 2005, ENYTB double registrations came from Leagues from several areas, including the mid-Hudson Valley area, the Syracuse and Utica/Rome areas as well as from the local area e.g., Eastern NY Mickey Mantle League (ENYMML) and Eastern NY Connie Mack League (ENYCML). In the past, teams from the WASAREN League have particpated in this practice as well.Last year, however, the ENYMML/ENYCML sought to sabotage this practice by intentionally scheduling their members' games to conflict with every game already scheduled for them in this League. To do this, ENYMML/ENYCML deviated from the non-overlapping team and field availability data supplied them by the various double registered teams. This intentional act of hostility perpertrated by ENYMML/ENYCML towards ENYTB is the reason this League can no longer accept double registrations from those two Leagues. ENYTB Policy No team registered in ENYMML/ENYCML (aka the Henkel Leagues) will be allowed to double register with ENYTB. All ENYMML/ENYCML teams are welcome to become members of ENYTB in order to take advantage of the many benefits of our program but beginning in '06, they will no longer be able to do both ENYTB and ENYMML/ENYCML. In the past, ENYTB teams had to switch from ENYTB to ENYMML/ENYCML at age 16/18 if they wanted to continue their sanctioning and tournament eligibility under AABC. This is no longer the case as a result of UNYSABA's recent decision to confer full AABC sanctioning rights to ENYTB at 16U and 18U, as well as 17U. Every area team in these age divisions is now eligible for AABC sanctioning and tournament play through ENYTB. Thus, previously double registered teams can now obtain all the benefits of being in both Leagues by being in ENYTB alone. In fact, ENYTB encourages all its members to register all their teams with ENYTB, regardless of age division or past affiliation. Not only will your teams continue to enjoy the benefits of competitively balanced regular season play, customized scheduling, eligibility for AABC, NABF, PONY and AAU sanctioning and tournament play, but your task of providing field availability for scheduling will be greatly simplified. Instead of slicing and dicing your field availability among three or more Leagues, you can give ENYTB one field availability schedule and let us do the work of carving it up among your teams so that each of your teams gets the best possible home field schedule. (Alternatively, if you want to limit specific teams to specific home dates, we can do that as well.) By pooling your home field availability across all your teams you will also benefit by needing to provide fewer dates for the same overall number of games. With three teams in three different Leagues, you may need to provide as many as 10 extra home dates per team to get each team fully scheduled. With three teams in one League, the same 10 extra dates would be sufficient to fully schedule all three teams.What does this mean for player protection for members that participate in ENYTB at 13-14-15 but choose to participate in ENYMML/ENYCML at 16-18?ENYTB members are of course free to participate in ENYTB at certain age divisions and in other Leagues at other age divisions if they choose to. In general, however, to maintain player protection in this League at any age division, a member must have those players on a team registered and playing in this League at that age division in the current year. In the past it was necessary for ENYTB members to join ENYMML/ENYCML to continue their AABC affiliation. Consequently, ENYTB continued to extend roster protection to ENYMML/ENYCML teams provided they were double registered with us in those age divisions. Now that AABC has conferred full AABC sanctioning to ENYTB at all age divisions, it is no longer necessary for members to change Leagues at 16/18 in order to continue their AABC sanctioning and tournament eligibility. Therefore, there is no longer any justification for ENYTB to provide any ENYMML/ENYCML team with roster protection. Thus, ENYTB members, even if active in ENYTB at 13-14-15, lose any and all rights in this League to any 16 or 18 year old players on teams they choose to register in ENYMML/ENYCML, including those from their previous year's roster in this League. The League will release all such players from the prior year's roster and add them to ENYTB's Free Agent Board no later than April 1. If an ENYTB member puts out two or more teams at 16U, 17U or 18U, roster protection in this League will extend to players on its ENYTB roster only. In such cases, the protected roster for the ENYTB team must be declared on the ENYTB website by April 1.

Approximately half of our members are also responsible for operating their own house programs. Those that run smaller house leagues often are faced with the problem of having too few teams to provide them with a sufficient diversity of opponents. In addition, many house leagues, big and small, also desire to offer their house level players an exten... read more

When ENYTB was established in 1996, it affiliated with the AABC Sandy Koufax Division. Later we added AABC sanctioning at 15U, 13U, 12U, and 11U. Since there was an existing Mickey Mantle and Connie Mack League in the local area, AABC for many years would not sanction ENYTB at 16U and 18U. That prompted ENYTB to seek out other national affiliations... read more

In the last couple of years ENYTB teams have increasingly inquired about the possibility of ENYTB forming its own "Elite" division, with the possibility of including other elite teams from other regions. The ENYTB Constitution recognizes elite teams beginning at age 16, provided they participate in a higher level organized program of play than ENYT... read more

About 75 persons attended the recently concluded NABF annual meeting in King's Island, OH. I was accompanied by my oldest son Pete, who is now our principal webmaster. We were both made to feel very welcome by VARCHARlie Blackburn, NABF's Executive Director, and the entire NABF fraternity. Like most annual meetings of national baseball organization... read more

ENYTB Members and Friends, Later this week I will be traveling to Kings Island, OH to accept NABF's Man Of The Year Award for 2005 on behalf of ENYTB. While I am greatly honored by this award, it is really an award for the entire League to share. In the last six years the NABF has gone from being a sidelight for our League to one of its main attrac... read more

It took us three weekends to get the Fall Super Showdown Series completed in all three age divisions but sunny skys prevailed this weekend and play was concluded in both the Intermediate and Senior Divisions. The Senior Division enjoyed a Halloween Bonanza as two of the three teams that played on Sunday had already been eliminated from the tournam... read more

Our 10th season was our biggest and best yet. The League grew by another 40 teams (160 total), played over 3,000 games and produced an incredible number of sanctioned championship tournament winners and runner-ups. ENYTB teams won every AABC State Championship Tournament from 11U through 18U. And, we put SIX teams in the AABC World Series!!!AABC Wo... read more

A berth in the 14U Division was decided last night on the basis of forfeits of unplayed games that had been pp'd for non-weather related reasons. The two teams involved in these unplayed games both received berths but a third team, lost a berth as a result of these forfeits. That team was rightfully upset but they handled themselves in a gentlemanl... read more

For the past several years ENYTB has sponsored a season ending weekend open tournament for all age groups called "Last Man Standing". These tournaments have been played in mid to late July, varying depending on both host and team availability. These tournaments were a pay your own way as you play (i.e., no tournament fee) and the League donated t-s... read more