Most teams join the league already formed, either from existing high school, college or amateur leagues. Teams occasionally form from scratch. They collect their members from the pool players list. New teams are faced with the additional expense of acquiring uniforms. Open workouts are often scheduled early in the year to help new teams find players. Watch the web site for upcoming meetings and workouts.
Go to the Pool Player Form page and submit the information requested or send an e-mail to ray@cleverhbaseball.com and give your name, city, phone, e-mail, positions you have played or would like to play, hitting and throwing side ( R/R, L/L ), any other information you would like to post on the web site list. Pitching is always in demand - be sure to list pitcher if you have any pitching experience - it will increase your odds of being selected. Good luck!
A pool player list is formed each year on the web site from players who respond to our ads in local papers for players interested in joining the league. Managers, please notify the league at ray@royhobbs.com once a player is chosen from the list and has signed a Cleveland Roy Hobbs Baseball League contract.
Team costs for the 2006 summer season in the 28+ metal bat division will be $3,200* per team for 20 regular season games plus playoffs. Team rosters average 15 players. Fees per player average $200 without uniforms. Team fees can be lowered with sponsors, home field credit and charity event participation. Other divisions should have the same cost structure based upon number of games played and field costs.
What is included in the team fee?
Everything except uniforms and equipment.
We provide fields, insurance, umpires, baseballs, scorebooks, line-up sheets, scorekeepers*, team and individual awards, scheduling.
The 28+ Divisions will play games on Sundays only From last week of April through August.
Games are played on the finest high school and college fields in Cleveland and the surrounding suburbs. We pay for the use of these fields and support various Little Leagues and Challenger baseball in Avon.
The games are played with full Major League baseball rules. Full set of rules can be found at Rules. Unlimited defensive substitutions are allowed to encourage full player participation in every game. Batting line-ups are separate from batting line-ups. Batting orders can be 9 or more positions up to the entire team roster.
Why not? The wood bat just flat out sounds better. Take a walk around an amateur tournament and see what most of the top hitters swing. They use wood. When using wood they learned more discipline at the plate and consistently lay off the bad pitches - both inside and outside. Insurance liability issues are pushing high schools and colleges toward wood. Wood bats make for shorter, closer, lower-scoring games. I am a proponent of using wood bats and will have all Cleveland divisions using wood bats by 2006.
How to select the right wood bat to use
Real Players Hit With Wood
Coach John Peter - Publisher of Baseball Tips.com