Luckie Waller Little League: Luckie Waller Newspage

MAJORS MANAGERS AND COACHES UMPIRE SCHEDULE: The following is the umpire schedule for the Majors managers and coaches.  All of the games have been assigned with regard to each teams game schedule.  There should be no conflicts.  If your team is unable to cover the scheduled Minors division game, please make sure you arrange for coverage.  CLICK HERE to download the schedule.  Updated 3/31/2008.

MINORS & CAPS MANAGER AND COACH UMPIRE SCHEDULE: The following is the umpire schedule for the Minors and Caps managers and coaches.  All of the games have been assigned with regard to each teams game schedule.  There should be no conflicts.  If your team is unable to cover the scheduled Caps division game, please make sure you arrange for coverage.  CLICK HERE to download the schedule.  Updated 3/31/2008.

GAME SCHEDULES:

T-Ball - CLICK HERE   Caps - CLICK HERE   Minors - CLICK HERE

Majors - CLICK HERE   Juniors - CLICK HERE   Seniors - CLICK HERE

Softball Minors - CLICK HERE   Softball Majors - CLICK HERE   Softball Juniors - CLICK HERE

Discounted tickets for the April 27th, 2008 game against the Arizona Diamondbacks are on sale this Saturday.  The game will start at 1:00pm.  All kids 14 and younger will receive a life-size Chris Young Growth Poster.  Plus, your Padres will honor our armed forces by wearing their desert camouflage uniforms.

Tickets can be purchased outside the LWLL Snack Bar starting at 9:00am.  CASH ONLY!!

The prices are as follows:

$15.00 - Upper Infield Reserved (Just to the left of Home Plate)
$30.00 - Field Reserved - SOLD OUT!!

Padres Rookie Camps are held in the spring to prepare boys and girls for summer ball leagues by teaching them the fundamentals needed. The San Diego Padres provide hats, t-shirts, and a trip to watch the Padres play for all youth participants. They also bring players to volunteer!

The camp will be at Silver Wing Park on Tuesday (April 15th) and Wednesday (April 16th).  Parents may register the kids on the day of the event at 3:30 PM.  Click Here to download the flyer.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (March 7, 2008) – Little League International recognizes and appreciates the challenges that come with being a Little League manager or coach, so it has developed a free on-line coaching resource that Little League managers and coaches can turn to for reference, education, or to stay current with the latest drills and coaching techniques.

The welcome page of the Little League Coach Resource Center may be accessed by anyone at: www.LittleLeagueCoach.org.  The Little League Coach Resource Center is a free service created by Little League International in cooperation with Cramer Digital Marketing and Event Solutions in Norwood, Mass. The website includes interactive videos and related written content to help support Little League managers and coaches enter the 2008 season current, confident and prepared.  Read More HERE.

Luckie Waller Little League is schedule to take pictures on Saturday, March 15th.  Please check with your Team Manager or Team Parent for your scheduled time and arrive atleast 15 minutes early.  The Team Parent will also pass out two cases of candy to each player that did not opt to "buy-out".  If you have changed your mind and would rather buy out than sell the candy, please make sure you bring $40.00 on Saturday for each player that registered.  Click Here for the schedule.

Please email us any pictures you have of the Opening Day ceremonies, practices, games or any other team activities.  We will post them in our albums page.
to submit your photos.

Click Here to view the pictures from our 2008 Opening Day Ceremonies.

This month in Little Leaguer:

• A special Presidential delivery of Little League equipment to Africa
• The passing of one of Little League’s greatest friends
• Thousands of new Little Leaguers coming from Europe
• The NEW Little League On-Line Store
• Walter O’Malley and Bowie Kuhn elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• A longtime Indiana Little League volunteer is honored

… and much more!  Click Here

We are finalizing the team schedules and will post them shortly.  As a reminder, T-Ball (Lookouts vs Bees @ 12:30pm), Caps (Bulls vs Express @ 12:00pm) and Majors (12:30pm) will be playing games on opening day.  All other teams are off.  There is also a Juniors scrimmage game scheduled for Saturday.  Please contact your coach for additional information.

Luckie Waller Little League managers and coaches must be familiar with the supplemental rules for their division.  If you did not receive the "Luckie Waller Little League Supplemental Rules", please click here to download the document.

In order to view and print the PDF document, you must have the latest reader installed.  Click here to download the reader.

Please note that the Luckie Waller Little League "Team Parent" meeting has been re-scheduled to February 27, 2008.  The time and location will remain the same.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

If you are managing or coaching a team and would like access to your league team website, please contact the Gerardo Quintana-Roo for access.  You will be able to add news, team information, photos, stats, etc...

If you signed up your son and/or daughter for the 2008 Luckie Waller Little League Spring Season, you should be receiving a call from the manager this week.  If you are not contacted by this Friday, please contact us.

Practice will also start this week for many teams.  Remember that the first games are scheduled to begin on March 1st right after our Opening Day Ceremonies.  Let's get ready to play ball!!

Luckie Waller Little League has two positions available within the Board of Directors.  The first is the "League Auxiliary" position.  This position is responsible for distributing candy for the fundraiser, collecting the money and distributing the pictures.

The second position is our "Snack Bar Coordinator".  This position is responsible for the game day operations of the snack bar.  The snack bar is open from approximately 5:00pm to 7:00pm during weekday games and 9:00am to 5:00pm during Saturday games.  Some of the responsibilities include daily sales, inventory, re-stocking, and cash collection.

If you are interested in helping the league or would like additional information, please feel free to contact Sam Aleman or attend one of the next board meetings.

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Coaches de Pequeñas Ligas aprovechan la experiencia de profesionales.  Con tal de ayudar a que sus hijos mejoren su rendimiento deportivo, hay padres que llegan a convertirse en manejadores de beisbol.

Algunos no escatiman esfuerzo por aprender nuevas técnicas y enseñar a sus pupilos y el sacrificio está de por medio ya que no pueden descuidar el trabajo de planta.

Al Price y Al Herback llevan más de 28 años ofreciendo clínicas a coaches y manejadores de equipos de beisbol infantil y juvenil.  Recientemente, ambos ofrecieron clínicas en el Petco Park en un evento organizado por los Padres de San Diego.  Price y Herback son instructores oficiales de los Padres en este nivel.

La mayoría de los participantes eran padres de familia transformados, gracias a sus hijos, en coaches o manejadores de algún equipo de beisbol de la región.  Entre ellos se encontraba Jesús Marín, de 44 años, un chofer de camión en El Centro, California y manejador de dos equipos de softbol. En uno de ellos juega su hija Jasmine de 14 años.

“Vine a estas clínicas porque deseo encontrar una mejor forma de enseñar el juego”, dijo Marín, quien al lado de seis personas viajó desde El Centro para estar en estas clínicas.  “Es una gran oportunidad recibir los conocimientos de alguien que sí sabe”, opinó Marín sobre Price y Herback.  Marín maneja un camión que transporta deshechos tóxicos de Caléxico a Los Ángeles y en ocasiones a Phoenix.  Pero su equipo nunca está descuidado cuando a Marín le toca viajar.

“Somos tres los encargados de dirigir al equipo de softbol, los otros dos coaches no pudieron venir a las clínicas pero yo les voy a transmitir lo que aprendí.  “Cuando yo salga de viaje, los otros dos compañeros enseñarán las nuevas tácticas adquiridas en estas clínicas”, apuntó Marín con una sonrisa.  Marín comentó que lleva 12 años combinados entre coach y manejador, desde que su hija comenzó a jugar T-Ball.

Luckie Waller Little League will have a meeting on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:00pm.  All potential managers, coaches, team parents and other volunteers are encouraged to attend.  If you know of someone who is interested in volunteering, please feel free to invite them to the meeting.

If you have not filled out a volunteer application we will have some available at the meeting.  Please bring a copy of your drivers license since we will not have a copier available.

This is also your chance to meet and speak to the 2008 Luckie Waller Board of Directors.  The following is a list of items to be discussed at the meeting:

Board of Directors open positions
Team  managing and coaching opportunities
Registration information
Try-outs and draft day information
Bellfield repairs and fences
Schedule of events for the 2008 season
The general rules for baseball and softball
Open discussion

The meeting will be held at:

Church of his Kingdom
950 Garland Ave
San Diego, CA  92154

This month in Little Leaguer:

• The Little League Road Shows coming to a town near you
• Joe Losch, after four decades of service, is honored at his retirement
• Information on new rule changes
• A new online Little League store is about to open
• Walter O’Malley and Bowie Kuhn elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
• Little League World Series wins national travel award

… and much more!  Click Here

The ASAP Saftey Program Newsletter, from October 1998 to the present, is available for viewing or download directly from Little League Online!

For the second year, the Padres are excited to be able to host FREE Little League Coaches Clinics presented by Al & Al Baseball at PETCO Park .  The clinic is scheduled for Saturday, January 12th with the morning session for the coaches of 9-12 year olds and the afternoon session for coaches of 5-8 year olds. There will also be an alternate date of Sunday, January 13th for all youth baseball & softball coaches to attend a clinic at PETCO Park.

We need your help to promote the clinics to all of your leagues and coaches, and we will do the same, using the clinics at PETCO Park to promote all other upcoming Al & Al coaches clinics in the San Diego area.  I've attached a flyer with all the details for you to please forward to all of your league presidents.  Information is also available on the Padres website  (scroll down to the "Recreation" heading and you'll see the "Coaches Clinics" box with more details).

Please remember to reiterate to the leagues and coaches that the clinics are for coaches only (no children permitted) and that no cleats will be allowed on the field. Parking will be complimentary in the Padres Parkade lot on 10th Ave at the corner of 10th and K st.

We will also need your support on the clinic weekend to help with check-in/registration.  I will follow up with a sign-up sheet on January 7th and in the meantime please be thinking of people who may be able to volunteer on either Saturday or Sunday from 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. or 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.  Thank you very much for your support, these clinics wouldn't be possible without your participation.

As an added benefit to all the leagues this year, the Padres are delighted to be working with Al Price to produce customized instructional passports for all the youth baseball and softball players in the San Diego region.  These booklets will feature color photos of current Padres players demonstrating baseball skills at the youth level. There is no need to order additional passports because the Padres will be distributing the new, custom passports to all the San Diego area leagues as a gift from the San Diego Padres in late February.

Coach and Manager Training is coming to the Western Regional Center Saturday, January 26, 2008.  Participate in an exciting, hands-on weekend training session with Al and Al, internationally recognized instructors and authors of the Little League Education Program for Managers and Coaches.  Their instruction is targeted at coaches in baseball and softball working with players ages 5-14.

Come on your own or include other coaches from your league to enjoy this special training weekend.  The Coach and Manager training resources will be available at the Center.  For clinic registration details contact the Regional Center by phone: (909)887-6444 or by email: westregion@littleleague.org.

To learn more about the Little League Coach and Manager Education training resources, al and Al and to see if there is a District Hosted Coaching clinic near you go to www.alandalbaseball.com.

Registrations for the 2008 Spring Season will take place on Saturday, December 15, 2007 during the Montgomery Waller "Snow Day" celebration beginning at 10:00am.  Register early and save $10.00 off the regular price.  To register, you will need the original Birth Certificate of the player and three (3) proofs of residence within the Luckie Waller Little League boundary.  Click Here to download the flyer.

This camp will provide the “best of the best” in professional instruction for kids in all areas of baseball including: bunting, base running, fielding, and hitting. And last, but not least, strength and conditioning, which is very important as you go up in your level of play. We’ll have drills that have helped Adrian, and many other professional baseball players, get the most out of their talent!  Please click here to download the brochure.

Following up on the ground breaking first season in which a mandatory pitch count was used in all baseball divisions of Little League, the rules and regulations for 2008 have been refined, it was announced today at Little League International.  Read More

One of the agenda items voted on by District Administrators at the 24th Little League International Congress in Houston earlier this year, was a regulation requiring that all league age 12-year-olds must be placed onto a Major Division team. The measure was enacted, with 68 percent of District Administrators (delegates) voting to approve it.  Read More

The ASAP Saftey Program Newsletter, from October 1998 to the present, is available for viewing or download directly from Little League Online!

On Wednesday, August 1st, your LWLL Board of Directors counted the votes from closing day ceremonies for all board positions.  Your 2007 LWLL Board of Directors would like to announce your newly 'Elected' Members for 2008.  Although, all elected person's for each position is not final & binding, we would like to welcome all new & returning members as we conclude our spring/summer season.  Please join us in welcoming the following 'Elected' persons.  Click here to view the list.