Coaching Certification Program

All Managers and Coaches who participate in Babe Ruth Baseball Leagues must complete a Coaching Education Program. The course is administered online at the Babe Ruth League Website. The EFBA has already pre-paid for the course. Please click the COACHES link below to create an account, and then email the EFBA, or let your league director know that you have created the account, so we can assign a course for you. You will then recieve an email with instructions specific to EFBA coaches on taking the course.

To Create an Account and Order the course: COACHES

The following statement about certification is from the Babe Ruth Site:

There is no one single action that can have more of a positive impact on our players than improving the quality and knowledge of our managers and coaches. It is a fact that managers and coaches are the ones who spend the most time interacting with our participants and the ones who can make a child’s experience in youth sports fun and memorable. Therefore, it is very important for youth coaches to be properly trained to focus more on the child’s baseball and softball experience and less on winning games.

With this in mind, the Babe Ruth League/Ripken Baseball Coaching Certification Program was developed. Under the program, all baseball and softball coaches must complete coaching education before the beginning of the 2008 season.

The Babe Ruth League/Ripken Baseball Coaching Certification Program consists of the Level 1 coaching certification online courses Coaching Youth Baseball: The Ripken Way for Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken Baseball Coaches and Coaching Youth Softball: The Ripken Way for Babe Ruth Softball Coaches. Babe Ruth League, Inc. and Ripken Baseball, Inc. exclusively endorse these online courses, which are being developed by the American Sport Education Program. The courses are available now, so you have ample time to complete certification requirements prior to the beginning of the 2008 season.

Coaches who complete the Level 1 course with a score of 80% or better will receive the Babe Ruth League/Ripken Baseball Coaching Certification Program Level 1 certification for baseball or softball and will be able to print a certificate of completion and wallet card from the Web site.

Effective February 1, 2008, any coach who successfully passes the Babe Ruth League Coaching Education and Certification Program will receive a certification that is valid for their entire coaching career with Babe Ruth League, Inc. This also applies to any coach who has already taken and successfully passed the Babe Ruth Coaching Education and Certification Program

  "Managers & Coaches" for Umpire Vouchers click the link below and download the vouchers for your league

2009 Umpire Vouchers for Minor, National, & American Leagues  

Field Usage Guidelines For Managers/Coaches

Whenever you approach a field to use at the Hopewell Recreation Facility, you must pay close attention to the GREEN or RED dot on the backstop that shows whether a Field is closed or available for play.  The boys fields are fields numbers #1, #2 & #5.  The Girls Softball fields are fields #3 & #4.

GREEN DOT = Field is Open for Practice/Games

RED DOT = Field is Closed and "NOBODY" is allowed on the field for any reason.

QUESTION: What if the Girls Field is open and the Boy's fields are closed and nobody is using the field?  Can the boys use this field? 

ANSWER: Yes if there is nobody using the field.  However, if a Girls Softball Team shows up and wants to use the field, you must leave the field with no questions asked.

QUESTION: Can we use the Hockey Rink on the blacktop for practice if nobody is using it? 

ANSWER: Definately NO!

If for any reason a Park Policeman or Town Recreation member asks you to get off of the field for any reason, you must leave the field.  If you think you were asked to leave the field unfairly, you should ask the person's name who asked you to leave and then bring it to your Director for follow-up.  No arguments are to take place over closed fields.  Even if the SUN is shining!