AABCOK: Welcome
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Welcome to the American Amateur Baseball Congress of Oklahoma (AABCOK) web site. We are beginning our 3rd year of existence as the governing body for AABC baseball in Oklahoma. Feel free to browse the site and contact us if you have any questions. Contact AABCOK Director Shannon Enfield at coachenfield@yahoo.com or 405-514-4900. For forms and written information, click on handouts on the menu bar and download the items.
Tuesday, April 30
Please remove the Oklahoma Grays from your league schedules. They have ceased operation. If you wish to replace those games, please contact Justin Thompson with the Asher Braves, an American Legion team. You can contact him at 405-222-8768. Our current league lineup is strong at 8 teams. We also have several other member clubs who will play a limited league schedule but qualify to go to the Connie Mack State Tournament July 17-21 in Enid. We anticipate a 10-team state tournament with the winner advancing to the South Plains Regional in Ft. Worth (TCU) July 24-27.
Thursday, March 14
Southmoore High School has joined the AABCOK for 2013. They will enter our state tournament team as an unseeded member and will be drawn into the bracket as an at-large team. Welcome to the AABCOK.
Friday, March 15
The Woodward Travelers will be hosting two festivals/tournaments in 2013. The dates are May 30-June 2 and July 4-July 7. They are five game guarantees with four pool games in the first three days with single elimination on Day 4. Entry fee is $400. Please contact Mike McDonald at 580-216-1298.
Tuesday, March 5
Download the 2013 LBL directory.
Handout: LBL Directory
Tuesday, March 12
The LBL will maintain a league site on gamechanger.io in 2013. All league games must be scored using the free application for I-Phones or I-Pads. League members should begin planning on finding a scorekeeper who will score their home games. For tutorials and to download the free program to your I-Phone or I-Pad, got to www.gamechanger.io. If you want to find your club go to www.gamechanger.io/g/lesbeckhamleague. You can then select a scorekeeper and update your schedule, roster, leave notes, etc. The primary purpose for doing this is to have a central site available for game results, current standings, and statistical information for league games.
All LBL teams have been registered and a link to put in your roster and schedule will be sent in April. Teams won't be available on the site until a roster has been updated. All LBL games must be scored by one of the two teams playing the game. It is not necessary for both teams to do so. Please communicate prior to your league games as to which team will score it online. Generally, the home team will have the responsibility without prior arrangement. Only games scored (result minimum) on Gamechanger will be considered for seeding purposes for our state tournament. The final standings on the LBL Gamechanger league site will be the official seeding results used. Teams must play a minimum of two games vs. each league member up to a maximum of four games for league standings. You can play each other more than that but only four games may count in the standings. Final determination of standing will be by won/loss percentage once the minimum of two games has been reached.
Wednesday, March 6
The AABCOK is seeking teams in the younger divisions to qualify to represent Oklahoma in the AABC playoffs. All it takes is six teams playing a minimum of four games to qualify. Teams must be AABC and AABCOK registered to qualify. You can qualify a league in a weekend round-robin tournament. There are no entry fees to enter the regionals. Regional champions receive expenses to attend the even-aged World Series. Contact the AABCOK for information if interested.
Friday, March 1
The AABC South Plains regionals will be held on the following dates in the following locations. These are all even-aged divisions. State champions are given berths along with hosts and/or regional qualifier tournament champions. The regional champion receives a travel stipend to attend the AABC World Series in each even-aged division. The AABCOK will have a representative in the Connie Mack Division in Ft. Worth July 24 and one in the Sandy Koufax Division July 17 in Farmington. We are seeking to host the 2014 Sandy Koufax World Series in Enid next year.
Age Division Dates Location Contact
Connie Mack July 24 – 27 Ft Worth, TX Sam Carpenter 214-707-3680 samc1942@swbell.net
Mickey Mantle July 24 – 27 Dallas, TX Richard Holt 972-315-2829 richard@texasaabc.com
Sandy Koufax July 17 – 21 Farmington, NM Greg Brown 505-320-4438 tournamentdirector.fabc@gmail.com
Pee Wee Reese July 17 – 21 Farmington, NM Greg Brown 505-320-4438 tournamentdirector.fabc@gmail.com
Willie Mays July 10 – 14 Farmington, NM Greg Brown 505-320-4438 tournamentdirector.fabc@gmail.com
Roberto Clemente July 10 – 14 Farmington, NM Greg Brown 505-320-4438 tournamentdirector.fabc@gmail.com
Thursday, February 28
The Les Beckham League (LBL) has added a 9th team to the league lineup for 2013, the OKC Drillers. The league schedule site will be updated soon to show the Drillers schedule. The move will allow the state tournament to have a full field of 8 teams which eliminates byes in the early rounds. The Lawton Colonels will only play a regular season schedule and will not participate in the state tournament July 17-21 in Enid.
Thursday, January 31
AABCOK released the preliminary Les Beckham League (LBL) Connie Mack schedule on February 5. Teams will have until May 15 to revise their schedules before they become final. We have 8 teams in the league lineup for 2013. Click on the headline to go to the scheduling website. This is a preliminary schedule showing single dates. Teams have until May 15 to determine if they need to adjust dates and times. Teams must play each other a minimum of two games to qualify for seeding for the state tournament.
Thursday, January 31
The Les Beckham League is currently working on a day to conduct our first Showcase Day for league players. The event will be organized by league team but will allow individual evaluation of all players on a league roster. Details will be forthcoming this spring. It is a no cost advantage to being an LBL member.
Monday, December 3
The Tulsa Connie Mack League has been awarded a South Plains Regional Qualifier for 2013. For more information, click on the headline to go to the Tulsa DBAT website. The tournament will be held June 19-23 in Tulsa. The winner receives a berth in the regional at Ft. Worth, July 24-28, $1000 in expense money, and $500 in wood bats. The tournament is limited to a maximum of 24 teams.
Wednesday, November 14
At the recent AABC national meeting in Seattle, WA a regional qualifier in the Connie Mack Division for the South Plains Region was granted to the state of Oklahoma after application was made by the Connie Mack League in Tulsa. It will be a tournament in late May/early June TBA where one berth to the Connie Mack Regional in Ft. Worth can be earned. The Oklahoma state champion will also receive a berth from the tournament in Enid. Any AABC registered team in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, or Texas is eligible to participate. We will post additional details as they become available. Any Oklahoma team who registers as an AABC team specifically for this tournament is also eligible to participate in the Oklahoma State Connie Mack Tournament in Enid in July should they wish to pay the $400 entry fee.
The AABCOK sanctioned two leagues in the Connie Mack Division (In 2013, no players 19 prior to May 1, 2013); the Tulsa League (8 teams) and the Oklahoma Connie Mack League (8 teams).
LBL Mack
This is our premier 18 & under league that is beginning its 3rd year of operation. It is an AABC league operating in the Connie Mack division. Teams play a round-robin schedule which seeds into the Oklahoma Connie Mack Tournament in Enid July 17-21. Our champion receives a berth with a travel stipend into the South Plains Regional at TCU in Ft. Worth, TX July 24-28. The regional winner advances to the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, NM August 2-9. Information for this league is in the handouts section of the site.
Click on handouts in the menu bar to download the AABCOK Constitution and By-Laws for 2013.
The Woodward Travelers won the Connie Mack State Championship in Enid. OKC Sandlot was the runner-up and represented Oklahoma in the South Plains Regional at TCU. They finished in a tie for 5th. Congratulations to both teams.
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Please go to handouts on the left menu bar to download league and roster registration forms. Leagues register teams, teams register players. The $40 national sanction fee is included in the $65 fee per team in the state of Oklahoma. You only submit one payment to AABCOK. The basic requirement is a league must have at least six teams playing a minimum four game schedule prior to the state tournament. Should a league be the only one operating in an age division, the league can determine its representative to the national playoffs as they see fit.
