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ALEX RODRIGUEZ Named CABA GRADUATE OF THE YEAR: Played for the Brooklyn, NY Bergen Beach baseball team in the 1991 & 1992 HS World Series in Euclid,Ohio. Distinguished himself in the 1991 Series as an outstanding fielding shortstop and as an outstanding hitter in the 1992 Series. After high school Alex signed with the Seattle Mariners and began his big league career with them in 1996. He is easily recognized as one of the premier shortstops in the majors and made headlines when he signed a $252 million contract with the Texas Rangers. Click here for Full Story
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2010 QUALIFYING LEAGUES, TOURNAMENTS & POST SEASON SCHEDULE
2009-2010 AABC/CABA WINTER BASEBALL LEAGUE - DEC 5, 2009-FEB 7, 2010 (08U-18U)
2010 CALIFORNIA STATE GAMES ML KING 1-DAY TOURNAMENT - JAN 16, 2010 (08U-14U)
2010 ELITE SPORTS PRESIDENT'S DAY CLASSIC - FEB 13-15, 2010
DIVISIONS 08U * 10U * 12U * 14U * AWARDS INCLUDE: ELITE ROLLER/PLAYER BAGS & TEAM ELITE JACKETS
2010 AABC/CABA SPRING BASEBALL LEAGUE - FEB 20-MAY 16, 2010 (08U-14U)
2010 ELITE SPORTS MEMORIAL DAY CLASSIC - MAY 28-31, 2010
DIVISIONS 08U * 10U * 12U * 14U * AWARDS INCLUDE: ELITE SPORTS APPAREL
2010 AABC/CABA SUMMER BASEBALL LEAGUE - JUN 5-AUG 15, 2010 (08U-18U)
2010 CABA WORLD SERIES - JUL-AUG, 2010 (09U-19U)
2010 AABC WORLD SERIES - JUL-AUG, 2010 (08U-19U)
2010 SANDLOT "WOOD BAT" WORLD SERIES - JUN-JUL, 2010 (10U-18U)
2010 ELITE SPORTS INDEPENDENCE DAY CLASSIC - JUL 2-4, 2010
DIVISIONS 08U * 10U * 12U * 14U * AWARDS INCLUDE: ELITE SPORTS APPAREL
2010 INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF BASEBALL - JUL 25-AUG 2, 2010 (06U-19U)
2010 NATIONAL YOUTH BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS - AUG 26-29, 2010 (10U-12U)
2010 ELITE SPORTS LABOR DAY CLASSIC - SEP 3-6 2010
DIVISIONS 08U * 10U * 12U * 14U * AWARDS INCLUDE: ELITE SPORTS APPAREL
2010 AABC/CABA FALL BASEBALL LEAGUE - SEP 11-NOV 14 2010 (08U-18U)
2010 ELITE SPORTS TURKEY DAY CLASSIC - NOV 26-28, 2010
DIVISIONS 08U * 10U * 12U * 14U * AWARDS INCLUDE: ELITE SPORTS APPAREL
2011 STATE GAMES OF AMERICA - SAN DIEGO * AUG 4-7, 2011 * (08U-14U)
AABC/CABA 2009-10 "TOYS 4 KIDS" WINTER BASEBALL LEAGUE
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DECEMBER 5, 2009-FEBRUARY 7, 2010 * DIVISIONS: 08U-18U
(Accepting Registration Through December 2009)
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2009-10 BOYS BASEBALL CHAMPIONS
SGV Cobras - 09u Fall League CHAMPIONS
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Boyle Hts Dodgers - 10u Fall League Runner Up
Garden Grove Wizards - 11u Fall League CHAMPIONS
OC Hornets - 11u Fall League Runner Up
HHCYB Vipers - 12u Fall League CHAMPIONS
Long Beach Bolts - 12u Fall League Runner Up
Valley Cats - 13u Fall League CHAMPIONS
So Cal 51's - 13u Fall League Runner Up
Downey Hackers - 14u Fall League CHAMPIONS
Rim Reapers - 14u Fall League Runner Up
HHCYB Vipers - 15u Fall League CHAMPIONS
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So Cal Diablos - 16u Fall League CHAMPIONS
- 16u Fall League Runner Up
Belvedere Blue Jays - 18u Fall League CHAMPIONS
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"YOUR WORD MEANS EVERYTHING - Coach Paul Bear Bryant"
At a TouchDown Club meeting many years before his death, Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant told the following story:
I had just been named the new head coach at Alabama and was off in my old car down in South Alabama recruiting a prospect who was supposed to have been a pretty good player and I was havin' trouble finding the place. Getting hungry I spied an old cinder block building with a small sign out front that simply said "Restaurant."
I pull up, go in and every head in the place turns to stare at me. Seems I'm the only white fella in the place. But the food smelled good so I skip a table and go up to a cement bar and sit. A big ole man in a tee shirt and cap comes over and says, "What do you need?" I told him I needed lunch and what did they have today? He says, "You probably won't like it here, today we're having chitlins, collared greens and black eyed peas with cornbread. I'll bet you don't even know what chitlins are do you?
I looked him square in the eye and said, "I'm from Arkansas, I've probably eaten a mile of them. Sounds like I'm in the right place." They all smiled as he left to serve me up a big plate.
When he comes back he says, "You ain't from around here then?" I explain I'm the new football coach up in Tuscaloosa at the University and I'm here to find whatever that boy's name was and he says, yeah I've heard of him, he's supposed to be pretty good. And he gives me directions to the school so I can meet him and his coach.
As I'm paying up to leave, I remember my manners and leave a tip, not too big to be flashy, but a good one and he told me lunch was on him, but I told him for a lunch that good, I felt I should pay. The big man asked me if I had a photograph or something he could hang up to show I'd been there. I was so new that I didn't have any yet. It really wasn't that big a thing back then to be asked for, but I took a napkin and wrote his name and address on it and told him I'd get him one.
When I got back to Tuscaloosa late that night, I took that napkin from my shirt pocket and put it under my keys so I wouldn't forget it. Back then I was excited that anybody would want a picture of me. The next day we found a picture and I wrote on it, "Thanks for the best lunch I've ever had."
Now let's go a whole buncha years down the road. I'm back down in that part of the country scouting an offensive lineman we sure needed. Y'all remember, (and I forget the name, but it' s not important to the story), well anyway, he's got two friends going to Auburn and he tells me he's got his heart set on Auburn too, so I leave empty handed and go on see some others while I'm down there.
Two days later, I'm in my office in Tuscaloosa and the phone rings and it's this kid who just turned me down, and he says, "Coach, do you still want me at Alabama?" And I said, "Yes I sure do." And he says OK, he'll come.
And I say, "Well son, what changed your mind?" And he said, "When my grandpa found out that I had a chance to play for you and said no, he pitched a fit and told me I wasn't going nowhere but Alabama, and wasn't playing for nobody but you. He thinks a lot of you and has ever since y'all met." Well, I didn't know his granddad from Adam's housecat so I asked him who his granddaddy was and he said,
"You probably don't remember him, but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent him a picture that he's had hung in that place ever since. That picture's his pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day that Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him."
"My grandpa said that when you left there, he never expected you to remember him or to send him that picture, but you kept your word to him and to Grandpa, that's everything. He said you could teach me more than football and I had to play for a man like you, so I guess I'm going to."
I was floored. But I learned that the lessons my mama taught me were always right. It don't cost nuthin' to be nice. It don't cost nuthin' to do the right thing most of the time, and it costs a lot to lose your good name by breakin' your word to someone.
When I went back to sign that boy, I looked up his Grandpa and he's still running that place, but it looks a lot better now; and he didn't have chitlins that day, but he had some ribs that woulda made Dreamland proud and I made sure I posed for a lot of pictures; and don't think I didn't leave some new ones for him too, along with a signed football.
I made it clear to all my assistants to keep this story and these lessons in mind when they're out on the road. If you don't remember anything else from me, remember this. It really doesn't cost anything to be nice, and the rewards can be unimaginable.
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