Get ready to play ball!
The spring 2012 baseball & softball season in Prospect Park opens on Saturday, April 14, with the traditional little league parade down Seventh Avenue to 9th Street, then up the hill to Prospect Park, with players, coaches, and families assembling at the Bandshell for the Opening Day ceremonies.
The PARADE will start promptly at 10:00 am. All players and their families are advised to arrive no later than 9:15 am, to be sure that everyone is in position.
Teams from the 78th Precinct Youth Council will assemble on 1st Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Your coach will have a map of where along 1st Street your team will stand.
Teams from Brooklyn Angels, Camp Friendship, Holy Name Fathers Guild, Immacualte Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and South Brooklyn Baseball League will line up on 2nd Street, right off the corner of Seventh Avenue (between Seventh and Sixth). The first three organizations (BA, CF, HN) will line up on the north (left) side of the street, and the second three organizations (IHM, OLG, SBBL) will line up on the south (right) side of the street, in alphabetical order as given here..
Teams from SFX Youth Sports will line up on 2nd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Someone will be standing on the corner of Seventh Avenue and 2nd Street handing out a map of where your team should stand.
The parade is always lots of fun, so be sure to bring your cameras and video cameras! This year the parading players and their families will be joined by two marching bands.
The PPBA Board Votes to Permit Use of Bamboo Bats
In March 2012, the PPBA board voted to allow the use of bamboo bats in all baseball divisions. Principally this affects the Super Bantam, Grasshopper, and Freshmen baseball divisions since thise are wood-bat-only divisions, but since wood bats are also permitted to be used in the Cub and Bantam divisions (which are metal bat divisions), this rule affects all baseball divisions. This new rule does not apply to any of the softball divisions since softball does not permit wood bats or any variation of them, only metal softball bats. Please note that approval from the Board for the use of bamboo bats was given after the scorebooks with the rules contained therein had already been printed, so this posted notice shall serve as an amendment to the official playing rules for the spring 2012 season. The rule in the book states that wood and composite bats are already approved for use; now bamboo bats may be used as well. |
The PPBA administers a youth co-ed baseball and softball league for ages 5-17 in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The season runs from the beginning of April to mid-June. For more information, contact one of the member organizations listed on the Contact page (follow the link at the top of this page).