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I want to go to Phoenix and play baseball OCT 18

Sioux City Bancrofts trip to Arizona in 2011

Iowa Great Lakes Okobojis trip to Arizona in 2022

Iowa Great Lakes Okobojis players Riley Sorensen, 2024 from Humboldt (IA), and Tyler Dick, 2024 from Mountain Lake (MN), following Riley the hitter and Tyler the pitcher in the the AZ Easton Fall Classic Home Run Derby at the Peoria Sports Complex, home of MLB's Spring Taining Games for for the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners in October of 2022.

THIS COULD BE YOU IN 2023!

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☝Consider me a Candidate for the Phoenix trip on October 18, 2023 ☝

• Total Baseball Development will be sending two teams to AZ Fall Classic's Easton Fall Classic in the Pheonix, Arizona area from October 18 to 22. 
• Games will start as early as Thursday afternoon October 19 and will be played through Sunday, October 22, with a four game guarantee. 
• Primary game locations are the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres Spring Training joint complexes in Peoria, Arizona.   

TBD's TEAM #1 - ☝Iowa Great Lakes Okobojis Fall College Prospects Baseball Team☝ 2024U - Upper Class Division

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Dave 'Beauty' Bancroft

1971 Hall of Fame

TBD's TEAM #2 - Sioux City Bancrofts

*This 2026U- Under Class Division consists of the 2026 Graduating Class players or younger, may include five players per team of 2025's born on or after May 01, 2007.

Sioux City Bancrofts ROSTER

Updated October 11 at 9:25am

(14.) PO as added / as needed

(15.) PO as added / as needed

This team of 2026's will be made of players primarily from the TBD Fall League - Iowa, and looking for extra baseball opportunites to finish the year in style.  As well and as as needed the Bancrofts extend invitations to players from quality organizations from other reaches of the baseball world.  This team will take a roster of 13 players with a possible flex to 14 and 15 for PO's (Pitchers Only).

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This 2011 photo shows the Sioux City Bancrofts American Legion Baseball Team lined up on the 3rd base line in preparation for playing of the National Anthem prior to the start of the the Iowa American Legion Area I Tournament at Sioux City West High School on May 1 of that year. The Bancrofts originated in the summer of 2008 and through their five seasos through 2012 the "out of season" 3 season team sent some 60 players on to play college baseball.

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TBD's PROPOSED TEAM #3 - Arcadia Chicken Shackers - 2026U

Any Oklahoma players with interest in traveling to Arizona with the Chicken Shackers will now be placed on the Sioux City Bancrofts

☝Consider me a Candidate for the Phoenix trip on October 18, 2023 ☝

For any players from any states with interest in this trip please contact:

Bob Protexter

712-490-7199

protexter.tbd@gmail.com

Why Arizona? Because it is an absolutely awesome baseball and lifetime experience to play in this Spring Training environment on Major League Baseball fields. As well it is covered by local and area colleges in the greater Phoenix that are recruiting high school players. TBD first took the Sioux City Bancrofts to this tournament for three years in 2009, 2010, and 2011 and it was phenomenal. The players loved the trip and the parents thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the long weekend. And in 2022 the Iowa Great Lakes Okobojis revitalizes this End of Fall - End of Year tradition for Total Baseball Development and our players in the greater Siouxland area and extended area of northwest Iowa.

Players must be invited to play. Invitations will be extended to primarily TBD Fall League players.  Criteria will be players that:

• Have the ambition to play college baseball
• Are not in football or varsity football and or are finished with football by October 17
• And have been tried out, worked out, and or properly evaluated as a quality player by a coach at their school

*Each player must receive a recommendation as a quality player and positive and quality individual, and TBD will contact coaches of players interested in traveling to Pheonix for this recommendation.

For a testimonial and more first hand information about this trip please contact Matt Barnhart at (712) 330-1901 or by email at: mbarnhart@hlpcsd.org - Matt is father to Bo Barnhart of the Iowa Great Lakes Okobojis who traveled to Arizona last year for this trip. Matt played college baseball and is currently the Assistant Baseball Coach at Harris-Lake Park High School, and is also the Harris-Lake Park Community Schools Transportation Director and Supervisor of Grounds for the school.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER FEES:

The team baseball cost per player will be a $467, and that will cover, but not limited to:

• Entry Fee of $1,900 per team to AZ Fall Classic for facilitating this tournament and playing on the Major League Baseball Complexes of the San Diego Padres and the Seattle Mariners
• Hat
• Jersey
• Belt
• Socks/Stirrups
• Team t-shirt
• Heads Up Baseball 2.0 (Book)
• Coaches airfare (2 coaches)
• Coaches hotel (2 coaches - rooming together)
• Coaches meals (2 coaches)
• Small stipend for each coach and each team will carry two coaches
• Balls
• Printed rosters and online rosters for and sent to colleges for college recruiting purposes
• One team meal provided on this trip
• Administrative expenditures
• Incidental costs per player
• Game day expenses
• Team/Player Insurance
• The experience - PRICELESS

Players are to provide their own white baseball pants.  Any striping or piping is acceptable.

TRAVEL EXPENSES

• Flights, the teams will not fly as a team. Arrange flights to arrive Wednesday evening, October 18 or Thursday morning, October 19 to be able to play as early as 12:00pm noon Phoenix time.
• Hotel: Hampton Inn Peoria - $154 per night This hotel is situated with walking distance to everything in a neighborhood surrounded by resturants and is very close to the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners Spring Training Complex where games are held, and is a seven minute walk to the Peoria Sports Complex where the Padres and Mariners share as a Major League Baseball field for Spring Trianing games. It has a great hot breakfast, an outdoor pool with a grilling area, and very nice rooms. It is in a wonderful area with plenty of food options and a mall across the street in that immediate area in Peoria.
• Gound transportation: Super Shuttle from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to the Hampton Inn in Peoria. And with the Hampton in easy and relaxed walking distance to shopping centers, malls, resturants, dining establishmets, and game fields there is no need to rent cars.