"Twinsburg represents community baseball at its best. Their teams are consistently strong fundamentally and more importantly they play the game the right way; with respect."

Former Cleveland Indians & Current Toronto Blue Jays President Mark Shapiro

3RD ANNUAL TBL CELEBRATES OUR MVP'S EVENT - JULY 22ND!

TBL is super excited to host our third annual TBL Celebrates Our MVPs game! This event is intended to celebrate our MVP players who may have physical or other challenges that may prevent them from playing the game of baseball in a traditional setting.

The event will take place on Sunday, July 22, 2018 from 3-6 PM at Liberty Park, and is open to all players ages under 18 years old in Twinsburg and other communities. The baseball game will feature our MVPs and baseball buddies, include live announcements, introductions, and special participating gifts for our MVP players! A cookout for MVP's, their families and volunteers will follow the baseball game!

There is no registration fee to participate in this event! MVP players and their families are all welcome! To register your child or volunteer to help at the event, please email Stevie Romano at tbl.mvp@gmail.com.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! 5TH ANNUAL WORLD SERIES OF WIFFLE BALL - AUGUST 25-26, 2018! 

TBL hosts what is now the largest Wiffle Ball tournament in America each August! 94 teams from five states came to Twinsburg to participate a year ago, and we're expecting a fifth straight year of healthy growth for the event that has taken Northeast Ohio by storm!

Anyone who is 7 years of age or older on August 26, 2018 may participate by putting together a team of 3 or 4 players in one of our 5 age divisions (7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 16-29, 30+).

For MUCH more information on the event, visit www.worldseriesofwiffleball.com!  Registration, rules, results and pictures from past years, and much more can be found there. 

FALL BALL REGISTRATION - JULY 9-23, 2018

Believe it or not, registration for TBL's "second season" is right around the corner!

Fall Ball has grown like crazy in Twinsburg since we started the program in 2011. We've seen large increases in the number of kids from neighboring communities that come to Twinsburg to play Fall Ball, and our league had evolved into one of the premier fall baseball leagues in Ohio. 2017 was our seventh straight year of growth for the Fall Ball program as we fielded 30 teams in our five different age divisions:

Coach Pitch - Kids going into 1st or 2nd grade in the fall
Juniors (kid pitch) - Kids going into 3rd or 4th grade in the fall
Minors - Kids going into 5th or 6th grade in the fall
Majors - Kids going into 7th, 8th or 9th grade in the fall
Seniors - Kids going into 9th, 10th or 11th grade in the fall

(Going into 9th has option between Majors and Seniors)

Click HERE for more information on TBL's Fall Ball league.

TRYOUTS FOR OUR 2019 TRAVEL BASEBALL TEAMS - JULY 29 & AUG 5, 2018

Shortly after the conclusion of the 2018 season, we'll conduct our tryouts for our 2019 travel baseball teams. Twinsburg fields one travel baseball team annually in seven different age divisions: 8U, 9U, 10U,11U, 12U, 13U and 14U. 

The tryouts for the 2019 travel teams are scheduled to take place on Sunday, July 29, 2018 and Sunday, August 5, 2018 at Liberty Park in Twinsburg.

For much more information on our travel baseball program and the differences between travel and rec baseball, click HERE.

Applications to coach one of our travel baseball teams are due in by midnight on Sunday, July 22nd. Interviews will be conducted on the evening of Wednesday, July 25th. The application can be found below.

DATES TO REMEMBER - 2018 SEASON

June 2 - June Summer Kickoff at Liberty Park
July 5-8 - Twinsburg Stars & Stripes Travel Baseball Tournament
July 9-23 - Registration for Fall Ball
July 29 & Aug 5 - Tryouts for our 2019 travel baseball teams
July 30 - Fall Ball practices start
Aug 25-26 - 5th Annual Twinsburg World Series of Wiffle Ball
Sept 30 - Fall Ball season ends

ADULT BASEBALL!!!!!

It was only a matter of time, right?

Finally succumbing to years of inquiries and requests, TBL facilitated a series of adult (in age only) baseball games this fall. Amazingly, everyone had a blast, no one was injured (badly), and the games were (shockingly) well played and competitive! We're not quite sure where we're going with this yet, but we know we'll be playing more adult baseball in 2018 after a successful beta test this fall! To be added to the adult baseball email list, shoot Jim Porach a note at jporach@gmail.com. 

STARS & STRIPES TRAVEL BASEBALL TOURNAMENT - JULY 5-8, 2018

For close to two decades, Twinsburg has been hosting the Stars & Stripes Travel Baseball Tournament, bringing some of the top youth baseball teams in Ohio and the surrounding states (a team from Canada last year!) to our city. Last year's tournament saw 49 teams come to Twinsburg in seven different age divisions. And the home teams had their best ever performance, with all six Twinsburg teams advancing to the championship game of their divisions and four of them winning Stars & Stripes titles!

The list of teams participating this year and full results for past years can be FOUND HERE on our Stars & Stripes home page. 

LESS KIDS PLAYING BASEBALL? NOT IN TWINSBURG!

We're putting the finishing touches on what was a record setting year for TBL, with more kids out on the baseball diamonds in our city than ever before! Remarkably, TBL enjoyed all-time high levels of participation in 2017 for every single league and event we facilitate:

~ 67 teams participated in our spring recreational league.

~ 49 teams participated in 7 age divisions (8U-14U) in the Stars & Stripes Travel Baseball Tournament. Furthermore, all six Twinsburg travel teams advanced to the championship game of their divisions and four of them won Stars & Stripes titles!

~ 92 teams played in the 4th Annual Twinsburg World Series of Wiffle Ball, which is now America's largest Wiffle Ball tournament.

~ 30 teams participated in our Fall Ball league.

~ For the first time ever, TBL will field 7 travel baseball teams (8U-14U) in 2018. The travel baseball program is coming off its best collective season yet, with last year's teams combining to win an astounding 22 tournament championships despite being a true community program competing against largely club teams that are comprised of kids from large areas or multiple communities.

NEW USA BASEBALL BAT STANDARDS - DO NOT AFFECT TBL

We've had a few questions come into the email inbox about a new USA Baseball Bat Standard (USABat) adopted by Little League Baseball effective January 1, 2018 that will allow larger bat barrels (2-5/8") but also mandate that all bats must be marked with the new USA Baseball stamp. These changes do not impact TBL, which is not affiliated with Little League. So all bats purchased last year or for the holidays this year are still fine for kids to use in 2018, provided they are in compliance with TBL's bat restrictions, which can be found here in the rules for each of our respective divisions. Any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at twinsburgbaseball@gmail.com. Thanks!

TBL 2018 FIELD SCHEDULE 

Below is the link to the real time updated TBL master field schedule.  Coaches, please schedule practices and rained out game makeups through your league commissioner. 

CLICK HERE FOR THE TBL MASTER FIELD SCHEDULE

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THANK YOU TO OUR TBL SPONSORS!

A reminder to all of our coaches, players and parents ...

1. These are kids
2. This is a game
3. Our coaches volunteer
4. The umpires are human
5. This is not professional baseball

 We are always looking for new TBL board members.  TBL is an all volunteer, non city affiliated entity that manages the many different aspects that go along with providing a positive youth baseball experience for well over 1,000 children each year.  Our board is a great group of people that meets roughly once a month, and we'd love to add a few new good people to the board this winter.  Email us at twinsburgbaseball@gmail.com if you have any questions or potential interest. 

TBL mandates that our volunteer head coaches take an online training course to become registered members of the National Youth Sports Coaching Association and also that they take an online concussion awareness training course.  Both courses are also highly recommended for our assistant coaches and any other parents that help out with their children's teams.