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Pair of Waltham Youth Baseball Leagues Merge Into One


By Scott Souza/Daily News staff

Daily News Tribune

Posted Dec 09, 2009 @ 12:51 AM


For five Friday nights last summer, North Waltham Baseball League teams traveled across town to face teams from the Little Nippers in the Waltham youth baseball version of interleague play.
 

It worked so well the two leagues have decided to drop the ``inter'' from the arrangement, and to create one youth baseball league that now covers two-thirds of the city.
 

An idea that senior league officials first floated two years ago will come to fruition this spring when North Waltham and Little Nippers combine to form the Waltham Youth Baseball League. All players will be placed in one pool for a ``blind'' draft, with the new board of directors hoping to come up with 10 competitive teams in the age brackets of 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12.
 

The goal of the new league, which will also contain a T-ball component, is to allow for more instruction, a better variety of competition and strong travel teams. All of that is designed to increase the popularity of the sport among young athletes in the city.
 

``We want to build a new league from the ground up using the best parts from the other two leagues,'' said John Huff, the former Nippers league director, who will share WYBL direction duties with former North Waltham director Robert Fitzgerald. ``It should keep the kids more interested. Before, you would have a 10-year-old pitching to an 8-year-old because of numbers, or a 10-year-old playing against a 12-year-old. It could be intimidating. Now, hopefully, we will be able to allow for more skill development, a more competitive atmosphere.''
 

Huff said there was a movement to include the Waltham-based Warrendale Little League in the new alignment, but because that league was already so far along in its planning for next season, it chose to remain independent. Huff said he hopes to create a strong interleague relationship with Warrendale and forge a similar relationship to the one North Waltham and Little Nippers enjoyed in recent years.
 

Fitzgerald said the ability to pool resources will help make the single league stronger than the two could possibility be separately.
 

``Pop Warner is citywide,'' he noted, ``lacrosse is citywide, basketball is citywide and soccer is citywide. Baseball is the only sport that still went by street and by district.
 

``Now there's double the number of fields. ... This gives us more fields to practice on and work on skills. ... There's strength in numbers, and this brings up the number of parents, volunteers and coaches.''
 

While both directors are excited about the possibilities for the future, they and the Waltham Parks & Recreation Department were aware there could be some backlash from those concerned about cutting ties to the past. That's why they brought in the coaches for a special meeting last Thursday to explain the benefits of the changes.
 

``We had a coaches' meeting to get them involved early so none of this was done behind closed doors,'' Huff said. ``We had coaches who went in there not wanting to see the end of two 60-year-old leagues, but came out of it thinking that this might work, and might be better.''
 

They have also instituted early guidelines to keep some of the tradition alive. The two divisions in each level will be named the North Waltham and Little Nippers divisions, although players from each part of the city will play on each team. They have also divided the board of directors up equally among representatives from the old leagues and will name the four age brackets after the names of the old brackets in both leagues - taking the Juniors and Seniors designations from the Nippers, and the Minors and Majors designations from North Waltham.
 

A big step for the new league will come next Thursday when registration is held at the Prospect Hill offices of the Parks & Recreation Department from 6 to 8 p.m. Registration is also encouraged online at www.walthamyouthbaseball.com. Strong early numbers will allow the league management to begin scheduling early, and stronger depth overall should help improve the level of travel-league play in the summer.
 

``We just don't see the caliber of baseball in the city that we used to,'' Fitzgerald said. ``When we first started talking about merging, one thought was that a unified group working on baseball skills could bring it back toward where it used to be.
 

``I had a travel team in North Waltham, and we've had some winning years, but we've never been a championship team because we're a neighborhood league going against city leagues,'' he added. ``We would play teams where they would have 60 kids from all over the city try out for the team. In North Waltham, we would only have eight or 10 kids from that part of Waltham who were committed to play at that level.''
 

Fitzgerald acknowledges there's a lot of work to be done between now and when the season opens in the middle of April. By the middle of February, he said he would like to have most of the rules, drafts and schedules completed.
 

It's a major undertaking in a short period of time.
 

It's an idea; however, both Fitzgerald and Huff are convinced whose time has come in Waltham.
 

(Scott Souza is a Daily News staff writer. He can be reached at 781-398-8006 or ssouza@cnc.com.)



President's Message & Coaches Meeting Announcement
December 3, 2009 - 07:00 PM

All Coaches,


As you many of you are aware from me personally talking to each coach and or the rumor mill, North Waltham and Nipper have agreed to merge as one baseball organization for the 2010 season.  We have had discussion over the past few years with Nipper and the Park and Recreation Board regarding building one unified Little League in Waltham.   Many aspects of this merger have been methodically thought out, both the pro's and con's and both organizations felt it best to move forward with the merger. The main goal for this new Little League is to continue to grow and develop Little League baseball in the city and assure we are developing our kids to their fullest potential.  

Numbers and interest continue to drop at all levels of youth baseball in the City from Tee Ball all the way up to Connie Mack and the High School.  By building a unified Little League we will have additional fields for practice and games as well as able to structure the league and divisions to assure parity and development is geared to each and every age level.

We will be having a Coaches meeting on Thursday December 3rd @ 7PM at the French Club, 193 Elm St.http://favclub.org/, to explain the merger and how the league will operate for the 2010 season. We hope to see all of you at the meeting as I am sure many of you have many questions.  We look forward to seeing you next Thursday and I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.


Sincerely,

Rob Fitzgerald
Co-President
Waltham Youth Baseball


Coaches Player Evaluations
 
In effort to ensure all players are fairly evaluated for the upcoming Waltham Youth Baseball draft we need all 2009 coaches from both Little Nipper Baseball and North Waltham Baseball leagues to complete the player evaluations for all 2010 league age players from 7 to 12 years old.
 
 


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Indians capture North Waltham Minor League World Series
 

  The Indians defeat the Cardinals 3 games to 1 to capture the Minor League title.  In the clincher, the Indians  finished the series with a complete team effort in the field, on the mound and at the plate.  In the end. both teams displayed a great deal of ability on the field and sportsmanship off which ended a the season on a high note!!

 
Congratulations to all the
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Reds claim North Waltham Little League Major Division crown

 Reds
Daily News Tribune
Posted Jul 02, 2009 @ 10:53 PM

The Reds won the 2009 North Waltham Little League Major Division title on Sunday with a 3-2 victory over the Brewers. Pitcher Ricky Manning struck out 16 of the 24 batters he faced and knocked in Kevin Bythewood for the winning run in the sixth inning. Keenan Iuliano lent a brilliant effort for the Brewers, pitching a strong game in addition to plating Nick Callahan and Charlie O'Donnell with a two-run double in the third. Front row (left to right): John Rezendez, Ricky Manning, Matt Kane, Michael DiMascio and Kevin Bythewood. Middle row (l to r): Tyla Considine, Kris Masrof, Ashley Sampson, James Landry, Mark Rossi. Top row (l to r): coaches Rick Manning, Brian Kane, Dino DiMascio. Not pictured: Phil Bucciero.

Congratulations to all the 
players & coaches!!!
 
 


Congratulations to the NWBL Board for 2008-2009 season
  • 2008-2009 Board of Directors
  • President-Rob Fitzgerald
  • Vice President-Mike Devlin
  • Treasurer-Karen Hovsepian
  • Secretary-Nicole Spoto
  • Major League Dir-Joe Iuliano
  • Minor League Dir-John Ventura
  • Jr Minor League Dir-Jackey Sasso
  • T-Ball Director-Mike Corbett
  • Webmaster/Equipment -Mort Sullivan
  • Minor League Statistician-Dominic Spoto
  • Major League Statistician-Dennis Gulliotti
  • Registrar-Michelle Cormier
  • Fundraising Co-ordinator-Kevin Meade
  • Major Field Director-Bob Saulnier
  • Minor Field Director-Jim Miller


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