The 2008 Kick-Off Meetings will be remembered as the longest in league history - almost 7 hours for the two days combined! We got started a little late on Saturday, about 1:15PM and the room was still close to full at 5:00PM. On Sunday we started on time and finished at 4:00PM.For more than 50% of the attendees on both days, this was their first ev... read more

See previous news article for full details.I'm looking forward to discussing with you what we have in store for this year. 2008 is shaping up to be another banner year in terms of both program improvements and membership growth.MEMBERSHIP GROWTHThe club reps have done a terrific job getting their club and teams activated for the 2008 season. We alr... read more

Former Yankee Visits Area To Host Coaching Clinic this Saturday at Sand Creek Middle School Gymnasium ...Colonie, NY -- Gary Cathcart- a New York Yankee draft pick in 1984 and the Toronto Blue Jays 2007 Instructor of the Year- will be hosting an instructional baseball coaching clinic on Saturday, January 19th in the gymnasium at Sand Creek Middle ... read more

On January 5, 2008, the Board of Directors of Eastern NY Travel Baseball League (the "League" or “ENYTB”) approved and adopted a statement of priorities and programmatic plan for the upcoming season. 2008 will mark the League's 13th consecutive year of operation. *******************************************************ENYTB - Organizational Stru... read more

Last year, after the season began, we received an unusual amount of member feedback about the League's playing rules. A number of folks were clamoring for a mercy rule and for adoption of the NCAA force play slide rule. The League's Executive Board voted unanimously to adopt both rules.It also was time to enumerate specific penalties for ejections... read more

Congratulations to Mark Sidoti, son of Doug Sidoti, manager of the Waterford team in our College Division for winning an NABF Scholarship for the 2007 academic year. ENYTB contributes to the NABF Scholarship fund each year and Mark is our first ever winner.I met up with Mark over the Thanksgiving holiday, along with his dad and a special friend, to... read more

This is a brand new World Series site for NABF 17U and I had the opportunity to sit with the people that made the successful bid at the recent national NABF meeting in Louisville, KY. Trust me on this one, this promises to be one of the finest events ever held for this age division and a memorable experience for all.The playing sites will be City S... read more

After a one year hiatus, the NABF College Division (22U) World Series returns to Toledo, OH, sponsored by the City Of Toledo and the Toledo Amateur Baseball Federation. This 16 team event includes various Regional Champions, direct teams, and host teams and, is planned to take place at various local college facilities, including: University of Tol... read more

Official dates for the NABF National Championship Tournament Series (Regionals and World Series) have been announced and can be found on our Tournaments menu as well as on each team's online registration page.As usual, ENYTB will be hosting four NABF Regionals this year:NABF 14U beginning July 10;NABF 16U beginning July 17;NABF 18U beginning July 1... read more

LINEUP CARDS - The website will include a new feature in 2008 that will allow teams to quickly prepare and print their team lineup cards online. Teams will select their starting players from a list that includes all players on their active ENYTB roster. Teams also will be asked to indicate each player's fielding position and where they will appear in the batting order. The rest of the form will be completed automatically, including all possible substitute players, and every player's uniform number. The league name and both team names, along with where and when the game will be played, also is printed at the top of the line-up card.As a major bonus, this form will also include all players on your opponent's active roster, also listed by uniform number. This will allow teams to scratch off their opponent's eligible players as they enter the game.SCORING and HIGHLIGHT SUMMARY - When teams enter their game scores they will be asked to provide the score by half inning. This information will be used to construct a game report, complete with a brief summary of game highlights, reported in half-inning increments as they occur along with the score of the game at the end of each half inning for which a highlight is provided. BOXSCORE - For teams that enter their PLAYER STATS to the website, the GAME REPORT will also include a full boxscore of the game, with separate boxes for hitters and pitchers.The GAME REPORT will integrate the GAME SCORE, HIGHLIGHT SUMMARY and BOXSCORE into a single report that will be available online for viewing by the public and emailed to each team's local newspapers with a single click of the mouse! GAME REPORT will be available for all games listed on a team's online schedule as well as all its tournament games. Access to PLAYER STAT/GAME REPORT will also be available to non-league teams that participate in ENYTB sponsored tournaments or sanctioned tournaments hosted by ENYTB. In addition, our search function for League Leaders (PLAYER STATS) also is being extended to include selection of season by year and type (summer, fall) as well as by career (all years) and tournament play for current year. Also, player stats can now be entered separately for each game of a doubleheader.We have been promising a comprehensive GAME REPORT summary with direct email capability for a while and now it is a reality, along with the new lineup card feature as a bonus. ENJOY! MEDIA COVERAGE - At possibly 200 teams strong in 2008 (3,000 players) and hosting nearly 30 tournaments, ENYTB is by far the greatest purveyor of summer baseball in this area yet we remain relatively unknown beyond our own members. To help make this league's presence better known, the league has adopted a three prong strategy. The first prong includes appointment of a League Press Agent to handle all publicity with the local media with the focus of increasing public awareness of our program, including the many tournaments we host. We are grateful to Tim Bruculure for accepting the appointment to be the league's first ever Press Agent. If anyone has contacts in the print media or other media that could be of assistance in this endeavor, please let Tim or myself know. The second prong of our strategy is the website itself. Our website, especially the Inside The League menu, was designed to facilitate self-service real-time media coverage of the league without log-in and w/o having to interface with league officials. The third prong is our new Game Report feature, described above.What are the advantages to the league of publicity? One, obviously, is recognition for our current teams and players. Two, is recognition of the league itself, to help us to continue growing. And third, by developing a public awareness in the communities we serve, it is hoped that we can attract corporate sponsorship to help underwrite the cost of hosting sanctioned tournaments, thereby resulting in lower member fees and consequently, even more growth. The more we grow, the more teams we have in each age and competition level, resulting in better schedules for everyone and the more we can spread the overhead of hosting tournaments, thereby lowering rates even further. Nothing makes us happier than to be able to keep giving you more for less!