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 version of these rules changes is provided below.FROM:ENYTB CONSTITUTION and BY-LAWSARTICLE VIIILEAGUE SANCTIONING Section 8.1 Multiple League Affiliations In order to provide League members with abundant opportunities to participate in sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series (NCTS), the League shall maintain affiliations with various national baseball sanctioning bodies sufficient to provide all member teams with a reasonable opportunity to win, through regular season competition, a berth in a sanctioned NCTS. Majority approval by the Executive Board shall be sufficient to add or drop a League affiliation with any sanctioning body.Section 8.2 Participation In Multi-Sanctioned Play RULE 1 Teams shall be allowed to register for as many different sanctioned NCTS as are offered by the League and they are eligible for.Games between opponents participating under common sanctioning groups shall count equally in all such standings that are common to both teams. RULE 2 Any team that would be unwilling and/or unable to advance were it to win a sanctioned NCTS event, must forfeit its berth. RULE 3 Each team shall be allowed to play in as many different sanctioned NCTS as berths it wins. Should a member win berths in two or more NCTS events and those events are scheduled for the same dates, the member must immediately declare which berth(s) it wishes to abandon. Should a team win an NCTS event and be required to advance, and that advancement causes a conflict with another sanctioned NCTS for which it also has a berth, said member must advance in the NCTS in which it was a tournament winner and immediately abandon its berths in any other NCTS where a conflict exists.

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 ... read more

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