We are an 8 year old, regional travel baseball club based in the Town of Bethlehem, in the Albany/Capital District area of upstate NY and we provide a year-round training program complete with professional hitting and pitching instruction oportunities for all of our teams 13U-22U.

We are also exclusively partnered with the FROZEN ROPES - Albany Baseball Training facility. 

IMPORTANT POLICY:

"When you commit to playing for the BRAVES Travel Baseball Club for 2015, you agree to only play baseball for the BRAVES during that time, January through August. This includes REC baseball, Tournaments, or any other Baseball Team.  The only exception is for School Baseball Players and any younger aged BRAVES player who is still eligible for Little League or Cal Ripken. School Baseball Players are to practice and play with their school team during that school ball season. All other BRAVES Players will be actively practicing and training during the time that the School Season is taking place."

Our Teams begin training each year in January,
inside at U-ALBANY with our Winter Workouts & Conditioning program.
Our Winter Workouts get the players in "baseball shape" and better prepared for their High School Baseball Try-outs in March.
By mid-April, those players who are not playing for their school teams, are outside training on our home field in the beautiful Bethlehem Town Park.
The BRAVES are not part of a REC league.
Our season begins at the end of May, as to not conflict with
the important final days of the school academic year.
The BRAVES are all about the game of Baseball, not just playing games.
No other local baseball club practices more than the BRAVES.
We do not conflict with the player’s academic responsibilities
or their High School Baseball commitment.
Our BRAVES teams begin our regular Summer Travel Baseball Season AFTER
the High School Baseball Season has concluded around Memorial Day.
The BRAVES do not have All-Star Teams, which could cloud the entire team experience that the BRAVES instill in all of our student-athletes.
Our goal is to play together as One Team
and make it into the post-season tournaments in mid-July.
If you love BASEBALL, the CD BRAVES year-round baseball program
is a probably a good fit for you.
"more team practices and far less politics".
We just don't play games.

The BRAVES Travel Baseball Club:
The goal of the BRAVES Travel Baseball Club is to offer a unique baseball program designed to deliver a greater level of baseball to local student-athletes.
The fact is that 84.7% of kids nationwide who played baseball up to age 12 yrs. no longer play baseball again after that age.
The BRAVES desire to change that.
The BRAVES are a regional travel baseball club that offers a year-round training program complete with professional hitting and pitching instruction opportunities. In addition, the program will prepare players for those baseball opportunities that will come about as a result of their experience with the BRAVES. The goal of every BRAVES player should be to strive to excel at the game of baseball through their middle school and high school years with the ultimate goal of being able to play baseball through their college years.

To participate in the BRAVES Travel Baseball Program, it is not necessary that a player be an exceptional baseball talent, only that he have average or better athletic ability, a love for the game and a willingness to work to be the best he can be at the game of baseball.

Our baseball program addresses more than just a player's athletic ability. All of the additional skills necessary to truly play the game will also be developed: maturity, responsibility, and being a good teammate to name a few. The BRAVES also strongly emphasize the importance of schoolwork, good grades, and family.

In practice and game play, emphasis is on a professional look and conduct, teamwork and commitment to teammates, and fundamental understanding and execution of the game of baseball. Winning will happen not by coaching to win, but by sticking to the fundamentals that make sound baseball players and teams. Top to bottom, this theme is repeated at all levels of our baseball program, ages 13u through 22U.

The BRAVES Travel Baseball Club is for players ages 13 yrs. to 22 yrs. who are looking for a year-round baseball program that is a better fit for their desire to get more instruction, training, experience and to just play competitive travel baseball.

The BRAVES play our home games at the "Home of the BRAVES" inside the beautiful Bethlehem Elm Ave. Town Park -
Baseball Field # 5 - the Mickey Mantle Field, on Route # 32 in Delmar.
Many THANKS to all of our Volunteers and Sponsors over the past 7 years who have helped to make it all happen.

BRAVES Travel Baseball Club - Summer Season Teams:
CD BRAVES 13U, CD BRAVES 14U, CD BRAVES 15U,
CD BRAVES 16U,  CD BRAVES 17/18U and CD BRAVES 22/25U

FALL BALL Season - BRAVES Travel Baseball Club - CD BRAVES 13F, CD BRAVES 14F, CD BRAVES 15F, CD BRAVES 17F.
 
For more information about playing competitive travel baseball with Bethlehem Mickey Mantle, Inc. and the BRAVES Travel Baseball Club, please e-mail us today at CDBRAVES@hotmail.com  or give us a call at Tel. 518-469-8772.

ALL of the members of the Board of Directors of Bethlehem Mickey Mantle, Inc. and ALL of the Coaches involved with the BRAVES Travel Baseball Club are thoroughly cleared by Protect Youth Sports, the only background check company recommended by the National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS)

"Protect Youth Sports has demonstrated a unique awareness to the needs of youth sports organizations and has developed a very thorough process for running national background checks and re-verifying the accuracy of records."

We believe it is most important that everyone involved with our volunteer youth baseball organization be properly checked by the leading national background check entity. - Steve Peterson, BMM / BRAVES Travel Baseball Club President