Johnson City Youth Baseball: JC Youth Baseball News

Johnson City Little League has applied for the Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Spring Community Grant, which runs from March 1st to May 31st.  

To help increase our chances of winning the grant, we are asking you to go online and complete a short quiz - one for parents or one for coaches.  Once you've taken the quiz, you register on the site and then credit Johnson City Little League!

The whole process is less than 10 minutes and your participation will be extremely helpful to us as we try to win the grant!

Our hope is that Johnson City Little League will have more participants than any other league in the country, so please, take the quiz and then tell your friends! 

Just click the link below - or the headline of this article and follow the instructions.  Remember to credit Johnson City Little League at the end!

www.ResponsibleSports.com/Grant

We appreciate your support!

If you would like to become a member, please send your e-mail address to: information@jcyouthbaseball.com or request access through a "Members Only" area of this website for an automated request. 

Members of the website get full access to all areas in the website.  

When you make your e-mail request, please include:
Your full name; player's name, player's team (team last year, if request is made during the off-season); and your relationship to the player.

This is for the safety of our players.  If you do not submit this information, you will not be granted access!  

Member's relationships to JC Youth Baseball players must be verifiable through a coach or registration form.  If your information is not on the player's registration form, we will check with someone on the player registration form or with a manager or coach before you will be allowed full access to the site.  

This process ensures that only those people who are closely associated with players in the JC Youth Baseball leagues are allowed access to "Members Only" areas.

Those people who fail to provide the above information will be allowed "Fan Access" only, until their relationship to a player can be verified.

Thanks for your support!

JC High School Senior Ryan Clark has been named as one of New York State's top baseball players by ESPN Magazine.  Click the headline above to see the article on the ESPN High School Baseball Website.

Clark is a pitcher and first-baseman for the Wildcat varsity team and a former JC Little League and Teener League All-Star.  He has received a full-scholarship to UNC-Greensboro where he will continue to pitch and play first base for the Spartans, who participate in the Southern Conference.   

We wish Ryan and the entire JC school baseball program the best of luck for the 2012 season!  

JC Little League wants to thank Best Buy of Vestal for the partial donation of an iPad at a reduced price for JC Little League.  The iPad will be used by JC Little League to keep score for all Major League games, keeping parents and fans informed through live updates on www.gamechanger.io when they can't be at the game! 

To get to the Gamechanger website an sign-on as a fan or your team, click on the Gamechanger scoring widget at the top of the home page! 

REMINDER THAT SIGN-UPS ARE TOMORROW AT ZOPPS.

Registration forms are now available for download and completion at home, to speed up your registration process.

Registration for the 2012 Season (all age groups) will be held on Saturday, February 25th and March 10th, from 11 AM - 2 PM at Zopp's Restaurant, 76 North Broad, Street, Johnson City. 

Age groups are: Tee-Ball (4-7); Minor League (7-11); Major League (9-12) and Teener League (13-16). 

Cost:  Tee-Ball $30; Minor and Major Leagues $50; Teener League $65.

Parents of players who expect to be interested in consideration for a Williamsport All-Star Team (9/10 or 11/12 year old teams) should ensure they secure and retain the appropriate "Proof of Residency" documentation required by Little League.  Some of these documents are DATE SPECIFIC and could potentially be thrown in the trash, etc. by parents who don't realize the importance of the papers until All-Star time. 

A full description of the various forms of "Proof of Residency" documentation are available in the attached handout.  Just click on the link.  If you have questions, they may be directed to playeragent@jcyouthbaseball.com.

New to Facebook or Twitter?  How can they work for you with JC Youth Baseball?

Facebook and Twitter are social media sites that are used by JC Youth Baseball for communication with you, our parents, players and fans. 

Facebook allows for two-way communcation between JC Youth Baseball and you, where information is passed along to you about important upcoming dates, events, rule changes, etc.  If you "become a fan" of JC Youth Baseball, through your own Facebook profile, everytime you sign on to your personal Facebook page, you can get updates that have been made to the JC Youth Baseball Facebook page. 

Twitter is similar to a text message system on your cell phone.  When JC Youth Baseball sends out important updates, information, or alerts, you can receive them on your computer and/or your cell phone.  It's simple to sign up and simple to begin following JC Youth Baseball (if you elect to use the mobile/cell phone service, there is no charge from Twitter, Facebook, or JC Youth Baseball for uisng any of these services.  The only charges you will incur will be whatever your cell phone company charges you for receiving a text.  So, for example, if you have an umlimited texting plan, you won't be charged anything for receiving the message from Twitter).  Please make sure you understand your cell-phone SMS fees before you use this service. 

What type of information would you receive?  We are as new to these social networking sites as you are, so information passed along through these sites may evolve.  However, some information alerts we are likely to send:  Open gym date reminders, sign-up reminders, fundraising reminders, rule changes, game cancellations, meeting information, game scores or any other reminders or highlights that may be of interest to you, during the regular season and the off-season.

Sign up now!  If you have any questions, email information@jcyouthbaseball.com and we'll try to do what we can to help you out!