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Selected data from the Pasadena Baseball Club for each season starting 2003 is located under Archives on the left menu.

 

Our Club formally adopted the name Pasadena Baseball Club in 2002 with the legal merger of four youth baseball groups in our community of Pasadena.  The Riviera Little League began operation in 1953, one of the oldest organized youth baseball organizations in Maryland. With increasing population around George Fox Middle school, the Havenwood Little League was started in 1972 and played games at Havenwood Park and George Fox. Both leagues were affiliated with Little League (R) baseball and competed against each other in Little League tournaments.

In 1975, the Pasadena Clinic League was started initially to provide non-competitive Tee ball, but later expanded to Coach Pitch and Kid Pitch divisions. The Riviera Clinic League was started in 2001 as a Tee Ball feeder league for the Riviera Little League. Neither clinic leagues were affiliated with national organizations.

All four leagues were still in continuous operation in the fall of 2002 when the Boards of each organization met to discuss improving youth baseball in our community. After numerous meetings and lengthy discussions, it was decided to merge all four leagues into a single organization under a new name, the Pasadena Baseball Club. The memberships of all four organizations approved the merger, with the PBC Board of Directors to be composed of an equal number of voting members from the four prior leagues for the first two years.

The first season under the name of Pasadena Baseball Club was the spring season of 2003, and the PBC has been operating Clinic, Intramural, and Travel teams each spring and fall season since then.  Since then, the Club has seen the completion of the following capital projects:

 

Replaced clinic backstops and bench areas at Riviera Community Park fields (RC #3,4)

New 8U backstop and bench areas at Havenwood Park (HP #4)

New batting cage and pitching machine at Havenwood Park

New concessions and restroom building addition at Havenwood Park

Replaced backstop and bench areas at Poplar Ridge Park (PR #1-3)

Replaced backstop and bench areas at Riviera Beach Elementary School (RB #1,2)

Replaced backstop and bench areas at St Jane School (RB #3)

New covered benches at Havenwood Park (HP #3,4)

New block house improvements at Havenwood Park

New fence toppers and screens at Havenwood Park

New 90' field at George Fox Middle School (GF #2)

New scoreboard at Havenwood Park (HP #2)

 

We are working hard with AA County Department of Rec & Parks to try and build a consolidated complex of fields for our Club.  Mostly we need the County to know we are here and paying attention to what our community is getting, and what other communities are getting.  To date, R&P funding for improvements in our locations have been routine maintenance or replacement of existing worn-out facilites (e.g. backstop fencing).  You can help your community get the attention it deserves - contact someone on the board to find out how.

PBC Presidents
Tom Henry, 2012-

David Jann, 2010-2012

Tom Henry, 2008-2010

Mike McCormick, 2007-2008
Fred Engel, 2002-2007

 

In 2007 and 2012, the Maryland General Assembly and the Anne Arundel County Council recognized the Pasadena Baseball Club for its long years of contribution to Pasadena area communities.

 

    

The Havenwood Little League was founded in 1972. Earliest games were played behind George Fox Middle School until Havenwood Park was built across the street. Havenwood Park serves as the primary game location for the Pasadena Baseball Club.

Tom Henry was President in 2002 when the league merged into the Pasadena Baseball Club.

 

 

In April of 1975, Tony Reina volunteered to coach a team in a new T-Ball program that Riviera Little League was forming. When he found out that this program was going to be competitive, Tony tried to get it changed. He believed that most of the tee ball registrants were expecting a non-competitive program that would emphasize teaching the skills of baseball. Unable to convince the league to change its rules, he decided to form a new non-competitive tee ball league - the Pasadena Clinic League (PCL). The PCL was formally incorporated in the winter of 1976, with Tony, Kathy Reina, and John Swarthout being the original incorporators.

In 1977, Anne Arundel County Rec & Parks built fields for the PCL behind the Sunset Elementary School. The PCL added a coach pitch division in the 1980's, and a kid pitch division in the 1990's. By the early 1990s, the PCL was playing games on the Riviera Beach community fields. In its final two seasons, games were played at Sunset and Jacobsville Elementary schools, as well as Poplar Ridge Park.

Past presidents of the PCL include Don Morris, Tammy Plummer, Roseanne Krampf-Morris, and Fred Engel.