Montgomery Baseball (NJ)

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Come on down to enjoy some great baseball at the McKnight Complex as the Montgomery Baseball League hosts an 8 game series for the Special Olympics of New Jersey (SONJ).  These 2-hour/7-inning games will feature teams of athletes with intellectual disabilities ranging in age from 16 to 40, most of whom have played baseball growing up, some of whom have played on their high school team.  You may recall that MBL hosted the first-ever Special Olympics baseball game on July 20, 2013; the first pitch baseball from that game is proudly displayed at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.  This spring, baseball was featured for the first time in the 2014 USA Summer Olympic Games right here in the Princeton area (and Team New Jersey took home the gold!).  So, come on down to the McKnight Complex.  Admission is free, the concession stand will be open, and the baseball is guaranteed to be great!

-         Saturday, July 19th

·         Start time: 10:30AM

·         Start time: 12:45PM

-         Saturday, July 26^th

·         Start time: 10:30AM

·         Start time: 12:45PM

-         Saturday, August 2^nd

·         Start time: 10:30AM

·         Start time: 12:45PM

-         Saturday, August 9^th

·         Start time: 5:30PM

·         Start time: 7:45PM

We are making some big changes to our MBL Fall Ball program that will make it more fun and exciting than ever before!  Games will be played in September and October.  More details and registration information will be available in July, so check back here soon.

MBL will be hosting “old-school”-style pick-up baseball games and Ripken QuickBall games for all ages at the McKnight Complex on Friday evenings in August - FREE for all players that registered for our 2014 Spring Rec league!  Mark your calendars for August 8th, August 15th, August 22nd, and August 29th from 5:45 PM until 8:00 PM.  Additional details will be available in early July, so check back here again soon. If you have any questions please contact Greg Swerdlow.  We look forward to seeing you out on the fields this August! 

Montgomery Baseball League Families:

On behalf of the Montgomery Baseball League, I want to thank you for your participation in 2014 in our league.  From Opening Day to this past Saturday’s Championship Day, it was a fantastic year full of smiling faces, kids having fun with new and old friends, and some great baseball.  The energy this year was awesome!

We know you all have choices of where your child will spend their spring sport season and we thank you for choosing Montgomery Baseball.  Now, we’d like to hear from you, our community, on what you thought we did well and what you thought we can improve.  Below is a link to our 2014 spring rec season survey.  It should take you no more than 5 minutes to complete it and we strongly encourage you to provide comments along the way.  It’s the best way we can get to the heart of your feedback.

Here is the link to the survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MBL2014SpringRecSurvey

Looking ahead, you will see a variety of summer baseball offerings, including camps, August friday night sandlot style pickup baseball, and we are finalizing our new improved fall-season baseball program starting after labor day weekend. More details to follow.

Lastly, many thanks to all of our parent volunteers. It takes a lot of volunteers to run a successful program. During the off season we will be reaching out to our volunteers to solicit your increased involvement. Our success is dependent upon parents like you stepping up to manage teams, serving on committees, and serve as board members. I can tell you it is a lot of work, but it is also very rewarding. I look forward to welcoming additional and new parents to our volunteer team in 2015. Let’s make an impact for the 2015 season and beyond!

Thank you and have a great summer! 

With all my very best regards,

Frank Kimick
President - Montgomery Baseball League
fvk@aol.com

Register now to join us this summer for some fun-filled age-appropriate baseball-skills summer camp programs co-sponsored by Montgomery Baseball League right here at the McKnight Baseball Complex.  Act quickly because space is limited. 

Montgomery Baseball Futures Camp

with Instructors MHS Varsity Baseball Head Coach Peter Mueller & Assistant Coach Tom Huelbig
July 14th - 17th from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
McKnight Baseball Complex
Players Entering LMS, UMS, and MHS (5th - 9th Grades)
$199 per player by June 15th / $225 after June 15th
For more information, click HERE or contact Tom Huelbig
Click HERE to Register On-Line

Rooney Hit-N-Run Camp

with Instructors OHES Physical Education Teacher Johnny Rooney
July 28th - 31st from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
McKnight Baseball Complex
Players 1st - 8th Grades
$289 per player includes a trip to a Somerset Patriots Baseball Game
For more information, or to Register On-Line, click HERE
or to Print a Paper Regiustration form, click HERE and HERE

 
On Saturday, June 14th, Montgomery Baseball League held its annual Rec Championship Day at the McKnight Baseball Complex.  Great weather, great music, and great food combined to make for one of the most exciting afternoon of youth baseball in years.  Congratulations to all of our 2014 MBL Rec Season Champions!

The Rookies Division Blue Jays beat the Marlins 6-1 on field E:

The Minors Division Rockies outlasted the Athletics 10-6 on field A:

The Majors Division Dodgers defeated the Astros 8-3 on field D:

On Saturday, June 7th, the Babe Ruth 13-Prep Division MBL Batavia Muckdogs stifled the #1 seeded HBL Trenton Thunder 3-1 at the Hillsborough Baseball Complex:

Lastly, on Tuesday, June 17th, the Babe Ruth 14-15 MBL Lugnuts beat the HBL Thunder 9-2 in their Championship Game at the Hillsborough Baseball Complex.  NOTE:  There were 10 Hillsborough teams and 4 Montgomery teams in our combined Babe Ruth League - and Montgomery won BOTH Championship games!!

Montgomery Baseball League (MBL) is proud to announce Adam Kornberg as the winner of our 2^nd annual Montgomery Baseball League College Scholarship program.   The annual fund provides scholarship awards to assist qualified and deserving baseball player applicants attend institutions of higher learning.

Following a thorough and rigorous review process by our Screening Committee, Adam was selected for his active involvement with our program over the years and for his outstanding baseball and academic achievements.  In recognition of his achievements, MBL is proud to present Adam with an award in the amount of $1,000.00. 

Scholarship applicants must have participated in the MBL program for a minimum of 3 years, be actively involved in community service and in the high school baseball program, be of outstanding character and integrity, exhibit leadership on their baseball teams as well as in their communities, and have demonstrated strong academic performance.  Additionally, applicants must submit at least 2 adult references and an original essay of 250-500 words describing what baseball has taught them that will help them be successful in their future endeavors. 

The Montgomery Baseball League and its Board of Directors would like to extent their warmest congratulations to Adam on this outstanding achievement and wish him continued future success in college and beyond.  For more information about the program, click HERE. 

BaseballMania is an exciting sweepstakes fundraiser based on professional baseball.  

Purchase BaseballMania tickets from Montgomery Baseball League and every ticket holder receives a great collection of digital music downloads.   In addition, register your tickets online to be entered into the BaseballMania sweepstakes where you can win $1000s in cash prizes based on the number of runs scored by the baseball teams printed on their sweepstakes game cards.

Each game card contains 3 random baseball teams in each of the last 15 full weeks of the 2014 MLB baseball season (you get 3 new teams each week).  All sweepstakes game cards have an equal chance to win prize money based on the performance of those teams.  

To play the game, participants simply add up the runs scored by their 3 teams.  Every week, the 10 highest scoring game cards, and the 4 lowest scoring game cards all win cash prizes (Watch this short video for the brief explanation of how the game works).  One in every 20 participants will win! 

Don’t follow baseball that closely?  That’s OK.  BaseballMania will track your results for you.  Check your game card results on the BaseballMania web site each week or on their free SmartPhone app.  For more information, click HERE.

Tickets are only $10 each and are available at the McKnight Concession Stand during most weekend games.  A portion of the sale of each ticket goes to benefit Montgomery Baseball League.  Get in the game today with BaseballMania!!

    New for the 2014 season, MBL now has FREE WiFi at the McKnight Complex!
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