Moorpark Little League: Batter Up! (MPLL eNewsletter)

Our largest single expense in the budget that we continue to struggle with year after year is maintenance and repair on the fields. We spend thousands of dollars annually just to maintain fields - since the schools allow us the privilege to use the fields with no lease; we pay for the care and upkeep, year round. We ask for your continued support to volunteer time and resources to help us reduce the cost of upkeep.

Please remember we play as guest on the fields of Chaparral Middle School and must abide by their rules. As such, NO DOGS ARE ALLOWED and there is NO SMOKING. Please respect these rules.

We're preparing for another fantastic year of baseball! Registration includes hat, jersey, picture, but not pants, socks, or belt. There's an updated registration form and some minor fee changes. However, we highly recommend that our players be registered online, please go to our website for directions.

Once again we have an early registration discount if you sign up before December 15. After January 15, 2008 we cannot guarantee placement on a team. We will form a waiting list and if enough coaches can be found, your child will be placed on a team. We want as many children playing baseball as possible.

As always, we need top quality managers. No single person has as much impact on the experience for both the player and parent as the manager. Each year we have an acute shortage of manager applicants in most of our divisions. If you are interested in teaching teamwork, leadership and sportsmanship, managing a team can be a very rewarding experience.

Last, but not least, we have an outstanding Board of Directors for the coming year. Click here, then click on the "Board of Directors" link to see for yourself. It's going to be an exciting season of baseball and we're all looking forward to it. Thank you for joining us.

President, MPLL, 2007

The Moorpark Legends U-7 baseball team took first place in the Port Hueneme Firecracker Tournament. The team scored 106 runs in four games. Pictured in the front row from left to right are Parker Gelfuso, Robert Fletcher, Chad Conway, Cole Moses, Zach Zulager and Tanner Barnhart. Middle row: Zach DeSanto, Isaiah Sogah, Alex Bill, Sawyer Stoehr, Issac McKay and Dillon Holliday. Back row: Coaches Ron Conway, Jeff Barnhart and Scott Zulager.

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John Husted - District 13 All-Star Coordinator and Publicity Director for MPLL as well as coach, team mom, field maintenance and repair crew and everything and anything that MPLL needed throughout the year (summer included)... John gives his heart and soul (or is that sole) to not only MPLL but the community and all the sports programs - and he should, his kids are in all of them! John is well liked and appreciated in our town - he has lived in the area since birth, so everyone knows of him.

We hope he can continue to serve with the energy and passion that he has demonstrated for years in our program, since his oldest son John-Michael was in T-ball (he is now 17 yearrs old). You do the math!

Thank you John Boy!!

Little League Baseball, founded in 1939, is the world's largest organized youth sports program, with nearly 2.7 million participants and one million volunteers in all 50 U.S. states and more than 70 other countries. The Little League International Board of Directors, a volunteer board, is responsible for the management of the property and affairs of Little League.