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In The Dirt Baseball Club

Maryland’s premier youth baseball club.

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In The Dirt Baseball Club was established in 2016 as a new travel baseball organization in the greater Frederick area. ITD was founded on the pillars of character and leadership, with the goal to build better players on and off the field.

We offer a comprehensive teams program that focuses on the development of players from the age of 8 to college-level. We also organize a tournament lineup that allows players from the entire Mid-Atlantic area to compete against worthy opponents.

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See what’s happening with our teams and tournaments. Come out and watch, or better yet, play!

We’d love to have you join us!

Interested in competing in a tournament or setting up a private tryout? Get in touch!

Cinco De Mayo Tournament

Frederick, MD

Spring Fling

Fathers Day Bash

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UPCOMING Tryouts

17u showcase tryout.

November 11, 1pm - 3pm

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With access to four of the best fields in Frederick, In The Dirt Baseball Club has the bases covered for any event! Our field are our pride and joy and we’d love to enjoy America’s pastime on them with you!

In The Dirt Baseball Club is the proud home to numerous athletes from age 8 to college-level. They compete against some of the best opponents in the region and have championship pedigree.

Contact us today to learn more about our teams program and what we have in store for the next season. We’d love to hear from you!

OUR PARTNERS

We’re always seeking opportunities to improve our program and are strategically working within the community to foster valuable partnerships. these organizations give our players the best access to development, exposure, and confidence that it takes to be a successful player and person.

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Excited to play for In The Dirt Baseball Club? We hope so! If you want to attend a tryout or set up a workout, fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch. We hope to see you there!

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11101 Hessong Bridge Road Thurmont, MD 21788

[email protected] 240-405-4687

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Travel and Showcase

At Maryland JBATS Baseball, we are dedicated to providing the areas top coaching with an opportunity to play on the travel and showcase level.

CAMPS AND CLINICS

Baseball Camps and Skills Clinics

JBATS Baseball offers Camps and Skill clinics throughout the year. See our event page or contact our staff for more information.

INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP LESSONS

Professional Instruction

JBATS Baseball strives to develop solid fundamentals using current technologies and professional training. Contact us to learn more about our group and individual lessons for Hitting, Pitching, Catching and Fielding.

To schedule lessons directly with Rick Forney or Brady Policelli please use the links below and setup appointments online at our indoor facility. To schedule lessons with Jeremy Long or Bill Wallace use the "Get in Touch" link or their direct contact information below.

Rick Forney: Pitching and Hitting

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Brady Policelli: Catching and Hitting

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Jeremy Long: Hitting

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240-315-3309

Bill Wallace: Infield, Outfield and Hitting

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410-320-3002

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Shoe Drive! April 6 on Opening Day!

Bring your used sneakers to Opening Day Ceremony

to benefit Frederick County Sheriff's Camp

Winchester Baseball Hit-A-Thon

The Hit-A-Thon will be held on Saturday, May 18th from 10am-5pm

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Join Winchester Baseball Today!

Winchester Baseball offers an unparalleled baseball experience to the youths of Winchester and the surrounding areas. You will not find better instruction or facilities in the Northern Shenandoah Valley, making WB one of the premier leagues under the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken banners. Whether you're looking for a recreational league to enroll into in the Spring, or are looking for a more competitive experience, such as travel ball, with an emphasis on teamwork, hard work, competition, and fundamentals, your players' baseball experience with Winchester Baseball will be second to none!

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Coach Bob Brown, founder of Winchester Baseball

Winchester Bambino League, Inc, D.B.A. Winchester Baseball, was founded by Coach Bob Brown.  He instilled in his players work ethic, competitiveness, fundamental baseball, and, most importantly, how to be gentlemen.  Today, more than 30 years later, Winchester Baseball still carries that tradition, honoring Coach Brown by providing its players with an unparalleled experience around baseball.

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Cal Ripken / Babe Ruth Age Groupings

All player ages are determined by the birth chart below.  May 1 in any year shall be the deciding date.  Players may only play in the division in which their age can allow (no playing up or down based on experience).  

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The Cannons Baseball Club has offered year-round advanced baseball training and one of the region’s most competitive travel programs since 2006. We strongly believe in playing equal or better competition to help our players prepare for future advancement. Our program offers one team at each age division of the Select Baseball League.

The Cannons believe that family, local competition, academics and training are integral aspects in every player’s journey. Our mission is to guide student-athletes along a path toward success on and off the field. Our history speaks for itself. Cannons alumni include three MLB Draft picks and more than 100 collegiate players.

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The Select League  was created to provide an enhanced travel ball experience for all age levels. The  Select League is the premier baseball league in New England. Home to 100+ club programs, the Select League is New England’s most competitive baseball league.

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Cabrera, cottam and marmolejos named alpb postseason all-stars.

October 4, 2023, By: Kayla Shaw

Mike Dunn Receives Ray Cipperly Groundskeeper of the Year Award

October 3, 2023, By: Kayla Shaw

Spire City Ghost Hounds to Take Hiatus for 2024 Season

September 22, 2023, By: Kayla Shaw

Ghost Hounds End Home Schedule with Doubleheader Sweep

September 10, 2023, By: Jake Ness

Ghost Hounds Rally Falls Short on Wednesday

September 6, 2023, By: Jake Ness

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Come join us for a game, or enjoy watching throughout the entire season. Baseball is America’s game and we welcome you, your family, and all of your friends. We can’t wait to see you here!

Step right up baseball fans! Get ready to show off your support for the newest Atlantic League Professional Baseball team from Frederick, Maryland with our exclusive merchandise store! Our store offers a wide variety of team gear, including hats, shirts, jerseys, and more, all emblazoned with the team’s Ghost Hounds name and logo.

Located in the picturesque city of Frederick, Maryland, Harry Grove Stadium is a beautiful baseball field and the home of the city’s newly-created Atlantic League Professional Baseball team. The stadium boasts a seating capacity of over 5,000 and features top-notch facilities for players and fans alike, making it a premier destination for baseball enthusiasts in the region.

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The Spire City Ghost Hounds may not be playing the 2024 season, but the Frederick Keys are! Stay up to date on tickets, promotions, and everything Frederick Keys on their website. Visit Frederick Keys Website

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TRYOUT DATES FOR 10U - BARBER

Saturday, August 20th, 12-1pm, and Saturday, August 21st, 2-4pm

at Utica Park (10206B Old Frederick Road, Frederick, MD  21701)

TRYOUT DATES FOR 10U - GRIBBIN Thursday July 14th 6-8pm and Saturday July 16th 9am - 12 noon at Utica Park Field 4. 

July 23, 9:00am-12:00pm at Summit Ridge Park 6775 Buffalo Road Mount Airy, MD 21771

TRYOUT DATES FOR 11U - MINNICK

July 23 2:00 - 4:00 PM, July 26 6:00 - 8:00 PM  at Utica Park

TRYOUT DATES FOR 12U - DUMAN

Wednesday July 6th 6:00 pm and Sunday July 24th  at Utica 9:00 am 

TRYOUT DATES FOR 12U - MOSKOWITZ

July 26/27/28 from 5:30 – 7:30

 6927 Monroe Rd

Boonsboro, MD 21713

TRYOUT DATES FOR 13U - O'CONNOR July 12th and July 19th  6-8 144 Old National Pike Park

TRYOUT DATES FOR 14U - SMITH July 14th July 25th July 30th and July 31st  at Libertytown Park

TRYOUT DATES FOR 15U, 16U, & 17U

Wednesday, July 27th: 9:00am – 11:00am (2026 grads)

Wednesday, July 27th: 11:00am - 1:00pm (2024 and 2025 grads)

Thursday, July 28th:  9:00am – 11:00am (2026 grads)

Thursday, July 28th: 11:00am - 1:00pm (2024 and 2025 grads)

Monday, August 1st: 4:00pm - 6:00pm (2024 and 2025 grads)

Monday, August 1st: 6:00pm - 8:00 pm  (2026 grads)

at Frederick Community College (7932 Opossumtown Pike, Frederick, MD 21702)  

Jayson Werth’s love of horse racing after baseball has led him to the Kentucky Derby

The Associated Press

May 2, 2024, 2:58 PM

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Jayson Werth got to Churchill Downs in the middle of Kentucky Derby week and was overcome by a familiar feeling.

“It has some fragrance of the World Series,” he said. “Things are totally different now. We’re at the barns, roads are blocked off, there’s security everywhere. It’s definitely heightened, and you get the sense, ‘This is it, this is the highest level of the sport.’”

Werth won the World Series with Philadelphia and played 63 playoff games during his major league career with the Toronto Blue Jays, Los Angeles Dodgers, Phillies and Nationals, and still nothing compares with the adrenaline rush of his new favorite sport. The retired outfielder has shares of more than a dozen thoroughbreds, and on Saturday has the chance to become a Kentucky Derby-winning owner with Dornoch running in the 150th running of the famous race.

“It’s surreal: We kind of got into this as a hobby, and it’s turned into a passion,” Werth told The Associated Press by phone. “I’ve got a passion for the sport like I would’ve never thought, and I want to share it with the world.”

Werth has used horse racing to fill the competitive void baseball once did, a few years after learning about the sport from golfing buddy Rich Averill, who has been involved in the industry for decades.

Having a prominent athlete espousing his love for horse racing certainly doesn’t hurt as work is ongoing to bring in new fans.

“The connection between racing and professional sports has always been strong, going all the way back to Babe Ruth, who loved to bet the horses,” said NBC Sports analyst Randy Moss, who is working his 44th Derby this weekend. “Especially when an athlete like Jayson Werth buys into a few horses and actually makes it into the Derby.”

Werth thinks regular people owning racehorses — even micro shares like 2023 Derby winner Mage, a full brother of Dornoch — is a way into the sport that has historically had a high barrier of entry because of costs. He describes watching a race now like being in the dugout with a teammate trying to round the bases to score and win a game.

Werth, whose stable Two Eight Racing is a nod to his jersey No. 28 with the Dodgers, Phillies and Nationals, is looking into starting an ownership collective to “do something on a much larger scale in horse racing.” Werth has 10% of Dornoch and similar percentages of other horses.

But first, there’s the Derby, with Dornoch trained by Danny Gargan and ridden by Luis Saez, breaking from the rail. Werth was upset about Dornoch getting the No. 1 spot inside before recalling the horse likes to sprint out to the lead. The horse is a long shot that opened at 20-1 .

“I really do think this could be a perfect storm of us,” Werth said. “If Dornoch can skid out in front and stay on the lead and keep the dirt off his face, I think we’ve got a real shot.”

KENTUCKY OAKS

A filly has dropped out of the Kentucky Oaks ahead of Friday’s $1.5 million race at Churchill Downs.

Tapit Jenallie was withdrawn Thursday because of a slight injury to her back end, trainer Eddie Milligan Jr. said. She was 30-1 on the morning line.

“We felt like she’s just too nice of a filly to do anything detrimental to her health,” Milligan said. “It’s very disappointing, very disheartening, but that’s how this game is.”

He said Tapit Jenallie will get an extended break from racing and be re-evaluated.

Our Pretty Woman moves into the Oaks from the also-eligible list. She’s trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen and will be ridden by Joel Rosario, who was just elected to racing’s Hall of Fame.

BECKMAN’S BACK

Whit Beckman is back at his Churchill Downs barn and overseeing Derby preparations for Honor Marie after getting out of the hospital.

The 42-year-old trainer from Louisville was diagnosed with rhabdomyolyis, a potentially serious condition in which damaged muscle tissue releases its proteins into the blood, which can damage the heart and kidneys, according to the Daily Racing Form. He was hospitalized for five days.

Beckman said his legs were numb and he couldn’t walk last Friday. He said he had a blood infection and received fluids in the hospital.

AP Racing Writer Beth Harris and AP Sports Writer Gary B. Graves in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report.

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Facing big beach and baseball projects, Pinellas eyes shift in tourist spending

C LEARWATER — Pinellas County officials could change how tax money collected from hotel and short-term rental stays is allocated, with an eye toward making more of those dollars available to capital projects such as beach renourishment and sports venues.

That was the central conversation Thursday inside the Sheraton Sand Key Resort in Clearwater Beach, where county commissioners had their semi-annual joint meeting with the county’s Tourist Development Council, the appointed group of elected officials and businesspeople that makes tourism-related recommendations to the County Commission.

Changing the current funding formula, which puts 60% of tourist development taxes toward operational expenses including advertising, and the rest toward building or improving tourist attractions, would take a vote by county commissioners; so far, nothing is scheduled. But commissioners over the past year have repeatedly floated the idea of moving to a 50-50 split, and the assumption that they’ll make such a move was built into financial projections for the next decade that officials saw at Thursday’s meeting.

The discussion comes at a pivotal time for Pinellas’ approach to tourism, with two major projects that could benefit from more tourist tax dollars being earmarked for capital uses.

The county is in negotiations to help pay for a new Tampa Bay Rays stadium in downtown St. Petersburg; a preliminary agreement announced last year would have the county putting $312.5 million in tourist tax dollars into the ballpark. And given that the county would finance that payment over the course of decades, the final cost would likely be far higher.

It’s also staring down the idea of paying to renourish the county’s eroded beaches by itself. That prospect grows likelier every day that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which typically performs such work and pays for about two-thirds of it, maintains its stance that it needs perpetual public access to private property in the project areas. Because many property owners in the area won’t grant the access, the renourishment process has been delayed.

County Administrator Barry Burton said Thursday that the county is in the process of designing and getting permits for a full-scale renourishment, which takes about a year, so that, if commissioners want, it can go ahead with the project should the Corps still be unmoved by then. Projections shown Thursday have the county spending about $102 million on renourishment in both 2026 and 2032, though Burton said those numbers don’t account for state grants that the county could get for the work.

Both the operational and capital funds have more than $100 million in reserves now, and the projections suggest that the county could afford the beaches, a new stadium and more — $40 million on the Phillies’ spring training complex in Clearwater, $25 million on a Dali Museum expansion — and still be growing reserves by 2033.

“I’m seeing no indication that the Army Corps is going to work with us on” the beaches, said Belleair Beach Mayor Dave Gattis, a Tourist Development Council member. “What I see with a 50-50 split is this is the only way to ensure our beaches are taken care of, and that we have the money to repair them in the event of a disaster.”

But the 50-50 idea also faced some resistance on Thursday as the business owners on the Tourist Development Council expressed worries about the state of the tourist economy. Russ Kimball, the Sheraton Sand Key Resort’s CEO, said the hotel’s occupancy in March and April was the lowest he had seen in his nearly 50 years there. Others noted competition from European travel markets and the cruise industry as post-pandemic travel has normalized. Though the county’s tourist tax haul in the 2023 fiscal year was its biggest ever at $98 million, numbers have slumped slightly in recent months.

County officials said moving to a 50-50 split would leave its tourism bureau, Visit St. Pete/Clearwater, plenty to work with. CEO Brian Lowack, whom Burton appointed to lead the agency last year, plans on asking commissioners for an extra $6 million to boost marketing in the coming budget cycle. But some members said they fear that altering the formula would signal an unwillingness to spend more on advertising Pinellas to tourists.

“We have to be spending more money,” said Michael Williams, managing director of the Innisbrook Golf Resort. “We have to be spending more money smartly in order to compete.”

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