Dear
Majors Managers and Graduating 12-Year-Old Players
Senior League is the next exciting step in your
children’s baseball career. In addition to welcoming
you, I want to explain what awaits your children in
Senior League and make you aware of the options and
possibilities before you.
Let me start with the
baseball field and game itself. As a player in Senior
League, you will now play on the same size field as
Major League Baseball Players (90’ bases). We are now
setting up a Fall 2008 intramural season played on 75’
bases which will be a good transition to the 90’ bases
next year. Please contact me for further details
regarding our new Fall program. You will also experience
all the same rules and characteristics of real baseball.
For example, leading, stealing, pick-offs, running on
dropped 3rd strikes and more, are now part of the game.
As an incoming
13-year-old, East Meadow Senior League offers an
exciting and competitive intramural program for all
registered players. This program is similar to the one
you are participating in right now in Little League.
Complete with playoffs and other awards, it’s a great
way to make the transition to Senior League. Please take
a walk over to the Pony Field after one of your games
and watch the older boys in action. Here you can play
with and against the friends you’ve made in Little
League. We combine the new Senior League 13-year-olds
and the returning experienced 14 year olds. We presently
have intramural teams from other nearby towns playing in
our league, including Plainview and Westbury, adding the
excitement of a traveling environment without the
expense, long distance travel and extreme
competitiveness of travel team baseball. The Senior
League season will start early April 2009 and ends in
late June.
For those players and
managers who are interested, we offer the Mustangs, an
extremely competitive 13-year-old travel team. As a
Mustang, you will represent East Meadow and play against
highly skilled teams from other towns and also
participate in tournaments that are held in and out of
New York. The present 13-year-old Mustang team is
playing in “Babe Ruth”, a competitive league. Open
tryouts for next year’s team will be held in the early
Spring ’09. You will be notified in the future with
additional information about the tryouts. The older
Mustang teams compete in a very competitive Connie Mack
and National Junior Leagues.
To be considered for
the Mustangs, registration and participation in our
intramural program is required. Registration will take
place commencing in December ’09.
Please look for the application in our Fall Dugout News
Letter. Registration for the Fall 2009 13-year-old
intramural season will occur in July ’09.
As you can see, we
offer a complete program for all levels. We welcome all
Major Managers to continue to be active in the Senior
League. I hope that I have answered any questions you
may have and that you choose to continue to play
baseball with East Meadow Senior League. I
Sincerely,
Larry Barra, President
East Meadow Senior League
