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The Voorheesville Baseball Club is a proud 501(c)(3) Not-for-Profit Corporation, franchised within the Eastern New York Youth Travel Baseball (ENYTB) league, whose goal is to provide local players the opportunity to play baseball at a competitive level, develop skills, and prepare them for the possibility to compete at the scholastic level. 

We currently field four teams (10u, 11u,13u and 15u), whose rosters consists of talented players from the Voorheesville and surrounding areas, who want to compete and improve their skills on the diamond. The summer travel season runs from late April through July.​​ The fall travel season runs from Sept through late October.  

We appreciate your interest in our club. It goes without saying that our sports programs depend on community support. We are grateful for our facilities, as they are some of the finest in the area thanks in large part to the coordinated efforts of devoted parents and friends of the VBC Program. 

This year, much of our funds have gone towards to securing an off-season indoor facility. The VBC facility is one of the best in the area, and we are proud to offer this to our players and visitors. We look forward to the support of our friends and families to keep our program successful. We have been consistently improving the program over the last several years and our supporters play a major role in our success. 

To keep the honor of the VBC Program and facilities, as well as the never-ending need and desire to stay current, there are several ways you can support our baseball program! Our program relies upon these efforts to maintain and regularly improve our facilities, and to purchase items and equipment necessary to develop our teams and players. 

Please see our sponsor options below:

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2021 registration payments, our locations, voorheesville hs - 13u/ 15u, new scotland town park - 10u / 11u.

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Voorheesville, NY 12186

148 Swift Rd.

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Our Program

Baseball continues to be the most popular youth sport, with nearly 5 million children participating each year.  Guilderland Travel Baseball (GTB) is proud to be part of this, providing an opportunity for 7-18 year olds in the Guilderland, Voorheesville and Berne-Knox-Westerlo school districts to develop and improve not only their baseball abilities, but also teamwork, sportsmanship, and physical fitness.  As a town-based travel baseball organization, GTB is not designed as a regional or elite travel organization with recruited players and mission to win every game.  Instead, our philisophy is grounded on developing our players' individual and team skills and teaching them the proper way to play America's favorite pastime.

Player Development

Our primary objective is to develop each player and teach them the proper way to play baseball.  Player development is both individual and team focused.  Our coaches rely on professional training and resources to instruct the players on proper mechanics and techniques for physical development, as well as the mental aspects to the game of baseball.  Players are introduced to many drills, with a  focus on quality repetitions.  The following sections highlight the objectives for player development at each level.

7U - 9U Divisions

Our 7U, 8U and 9U divisions are introductory levels for travel baseball.  At these age levels, the primary focus in on teaching the basic fundamentals of throwing, catching, hitting, base running and pitching.  Players have an opportunity to play all positions in game situations, with equal playing time at both infield and outfield positions.  Players also learn the basic "how" and "what" to do in game situations.  This includes things like taking ready steps before each pitch, backing up throws, knowing where to throw a ball, and other mental aspects to the game that will help them become better ball players.  There is no emphasis on winning at this level.  However, players are expected to stay focused, work hard, and have fun while practicing and playing games.

10U Division

The 10U division is an intermediate level designed to allow players to continue building their basic fundamentals, while beginning to focus on position-specific training.   At this age level, players begin to identfy their primary playing positions, but still have an oppportunity to play all positions.  Playing time in games remains equal, but players may spend more time at their stronger positions.  The emphasis at this level remains on working hard, staying focused, and having fun. 

11U & 12U Divisions

The 11U and 12U divisions are our advanced levels, but still have a primary focus on teaching players the fundamentals of the game.  At 11U and 12U, players are exposed to all aspects of the game of baseball, including leading, stealing, balks, dropped 3rd strike - anything you might see in a MLB game.  Typically with several years of training, our players at these levels focus on developing position-specific skills, preparing them for continued future success at the 13U and High School baseball levels.  Coaches at the 11U and 12U divisions strive for equal playing time while utilizing various strategies aimed for successful game outcomes.  Thus, our 11U and 12U teams play each game with the intention of winning, but do not have a "win-at-all-cost" mentality.

Teamwork & Sportsmanship

While we all want to see our children be successful, the simple fact is a very small percentage of the nearly 5 million youth baseball players will advance to college-level baseball, and an even smaller percentage will go on to play professionally.  But the great thing about baseball, is it teaches children concepts of sportsmanship and teamwork that they will use throughout the rest of their lives.  In school, college, and their professional careers, our children will undoubtedly find themselves constantly in a team environment.  Thus, GTB ensures all of our players are grounded in the fundamental aspects of teamwork and sportsmanship.  This includes:

• Supporting, encouraging  and trusting our teammates and coaches
• Respecting our opponents and umpires
• Winning with class and losing with dignity
• Playing fair and by the rules

We believe that stressing teamwork and sportsmanship in our players helps develop their character and is a key outcome of a successful youth baseball experience.

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How Do League Participants Retrieve Their Own Password?

enytb.com allows users to retrieve their own password at any time.

To retrieve your own password:

Go to the very top of the home page and click on the [Login] button. In the spawned modal, click [Lost Password?]

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Click the applicable user ID (if there is more than one).

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NOTE: If you get a message stating that you aren't a registered user, the system is telling you that it does not recognize the email address you have entered i.e., it is not of a valid email address/password pairing. This would happen if you have multiple email address and are entering a different email address from what you are registered under in the system. It could also mean you have typed in your email address incorrectly or that it was originally entered incorrectly to the system. If you believe it to be the latter, please contact your league navigator for assistance. If you don't know who your league navigator is, contact Ed Frye at 518-356-9089.

Custom Scheduling

Enytb puts you in the driver’s seat in determining when and how much you team plays as well as who you play..

• Have your schedule include the exact number of games you want week-by-week as well as in total;
• Have your HOME games scheduled only on the dates/times your home field and team are both available;
• Have your AWAY games scheduled only on the dates/times your team is available;
• Automatically eliminate opponents outside your team’s competitive range; and,
• Top priority given to scheduling games with specific opponents that you designate as most preferred. You can also block specific opponents you prefer not playing.

Schedule Reliability

Schedule reliability is the hallmark of every great league.

• Teams are required to play all games as scheduled;
• 100% enforcement via ENYTB website;
• More than 90% of all ENYTB scheduled games are played as scheduled, excluding cancellations due to bad weather;
• Games that aren’t played as scheduled (forfeits) can be made up at a later time by mutual agreement to avoid fine;
• Fines are imposed for un-played or un-scored games;
• ENYTB guarantees reimbursement for unavoidable out-of-pocket game expenses due to late cancellations.

Tournament Opportunities

Multiple tournaments for all ages.

• Local tournaments hosted on premium fields, including Joe Bruno Stadium, home to the Tri-City ValleyCats, minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros.
• Exclusive local tournaments for Members Only: Super 8, Summer Blast, Madness!, and ValleyCats Fall Classic. Each with a 2 game guarantee. Sign up available on team order form.
• OPEN tournament: Last Man Standing. 3 game guarantee. Last weekend of July. All teams in the Capital District and beyond are welcome to join in this summer finale! Members sign up on team order form. Non-members sign up on-line through tournament menu.
• Sanctioned National Championship Tournament Series are available to members at all ages via ENYTB affiliates: NABF; PONY; and, AABC. Sign-up available on team order form.

Nine ENYTB Teams Have Won Sanctioned National Championships. Can your team be the 10th?

Interested in Joining?

• New members are always welcome - ENYTB continues to grow, having reached 225 teams in 2019
• New teams are allowed to roster up to four players one year older than their team age (pre-2019 teams are grandfathered at five such players); and,
• New teams are allowed a maximum of four players from active ENYTB teams, provided no more than three of those players are from the same team.
• Players looking for a travel team to play for can go to Teams Looking for Players or go to Teams Hosting Tryouts .

For more information re: ENYTB membership you may contact ENYTB Executive Director, Andy Frye at (518) 545-0747 or by email at [email protected].

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Baseball Hustlers

L ast August, Jennifer’s 12-year-old son, Aaron, and his travel baseball team — a group of 12 hardworking and skillful players, plus three coaches and all the players’ parents — made the four-hour drive from their hometown on Long Island to Cooperstown for a seven-day tournament at All Star Village , which bills itself as “America’s only youth baseball resort,” complete with a pool shaped like a baseball glove. Both the original Cooperstown Dreams Park and the newer, shinier All Star Village host these weekly tournaments for travel teams all summer long. The trip is a childhood requirement for a certain subset of baseball players — like a family trip to Disney World or a limo on prom night. The lodging, meals, and uniforms cost the team about $20,000, or $1,300 per player and coach. Almost all of that money was fundraised, nonprofit style, by the kids’ well-to-do parents.

After all, they were the ones with Facebook accounts , co-workers, and email contact lists. Their ethos resembled Girl Scouts selling cookies or a student council running a canned-food drive, with a major caveat: The travel baseball team was not a nonprofit organization and neither was the Cooperstown tournament. “We went along with the fundraising because we were told that’s what people do,” Jennifer recalls. “But everyone on our team could have afforded to pay their own way.”

There are a number of ways to be a baseball kid in the United States, and the Cooperstown experience evades the majority. Many children begin with tee ball at age 4, which transitions to coach pitch at age 6 and then regular baseball through age 16. Run by town recreation departments and Little League Baseball and Softball, these teams are open to anyone who wants to play, often include supplementary clinics and indoor training, and are relatively affordable — a couple hundred dollars per season at most. Starting in middle school, free school teams also become an option, though many cut players based on skill.

Then there are travel teams — elite, try-out-only squads for ambitious players who want to “level up” their game. These teams practice multiple times a week and compete in tournaments almost every weekend. The time commitment is so sizable that the leagues naturally winnow out kids whose families lack flexibility or two cars. Parents are responsible for getting their players to weekend tournaments located hours from home, and game start times are typically posted just a few days before each tournament begins. Money is another filter. Travel team fees can range, but often hover in the thousands per season. (The fees depend on whether coaches are paid or volunteer, whether the organization has its own indoor facility and fields, and how many tournaments the team typically plays.) According to the Aspen Institute’s 2022 State of Play Report , families spend an average of $714 per season on baseball; parents in the wealthiest households spend almost four times more on their child’s primary sport than their lower-income counterparts.

Baseball parents I interviewed shared different reasons for investing in travel baseball as opposed to a recreational league or the school team. Some of them told me that the Little League season isn’t long enough. Others said their kids have aspirations of playing in college or need this experience to make a middle-school or high-school squad. But from my experience as a baseball mom, I think Dusti, a mother of three in Illinois, put it best: “It becomes a lifestyle.” In the Northeast, the season spans from April to October, and team communities — of both kids and parents — tend to grow tight knit. Almost every weekend in that timespan is a baseball weekend. In warmer climates, teams play year round.

On their long-awaited trip to Cooperstown, Aaron and his friends got to stay in barracks-style lodging together (their parents were nearby in hotels and vacation rentals), chow down on burgers and pizza in the communal cafeteria, meet teams from across the country and trade custom pins with them, and, most memorably, march into the stadium for the tournament’s opening ceremony alongside hundreds of other squads who also paid to be there. Everyone proudly carries their team banner. Aaron’s team played game after game (ten in all; only seven games are guaranteed in the package) in an effort to make the championship. In the end, they lost in the semifinal round.

Even celebrities fundraise for the Cooperstown experience. In January, actress Alyssa Milano faced an onslaught of online hate for setting up a GoFundMe to subsidize her son’s team’s trip. “Baseball gives us purpose and we are driven to be our very best. In order to compete, we must raise funds,” she wrote on her GoFundMe page, which has raised more than $15,000 at the time of this writing. When the haters came calling, Milano clapped back on Instagram: “Every parent raises money for their child’s sports teams and many of them do so through GoFundMe. I am no different.”

Not to get technical, but as my reporting netted out, it turns out that every parent doesn’t fundraise for their child’s travel sports team. While fundraising has become the norm of modern-day parenthood for a certain subset of moms and dads — often suburban and involved in the PTA — travel-baseball parents seem to have overwhelmingly transferred that mind-set to their child’s expensive and wholly optional sports teams. As a reporter and a baseball parent who has sheepishly fundraised for my own kid’s team, I reached out to parents whose kids play travel hockey, soccer, basketball, and lacrosse for this article and couldn’t find any who had participated in the same donation frenzy. “My Facebook feed is filled with baseball parents selling raffle tickets, Super Bowl squares, calendars, you name it,” said a mom friend who spends more than $10,000 a year for her kids to play travel hockey and soccer. “Why should I be the one paying for your trip to Cooperstown? No one paid for my kid’s hockey tournament.”

To raise the money for Cooperstown — which is a pay-to-play tournament — Aaron’s team hosted a game night at an event space. Jennifer and the other team moms sold tickets; crafted decorations; lugged cases of water and snacks to the venue; and, for weeks, called local businesses to ask them to donate products or services for a gift-basket raffle. (When Jennifer couldn’t secure any swag, she secretly bought a $300 camera to contribute.) They also organized a hit-a-thon where family and friends were asked to pick a player and donate a set dollar amount every time their batter had a hit. (When some of her “donors” didn’t send in their pledged amount, Jennifer covered that cost too — around $400 — rather than awkwardly asking them again to pay up.) “It never stopped,” says Jennifer, who added that while the travel organization didn’t require that every family fundraise, other parents looked down on anyone who opted out and simply paid the trip fees. “I felt like I was constantly on Facebook begging people for money.”

Matt, a dad and coach in Florida, works for Vertical Raise, an online fundraising outlet. He tells me that while many of the families on his son’s team can afford to pay the fees, they participate in fundraising efforts because “it shows a little bit of pride and ownership in your team.” He’s referring to fundraisers like helmet shakes, where players stand outside of a grocery store and ask people to throw loose change into their baseball helmet, not unlike a street performer. “They’re working a little bit, getting out into the community, and talking to people,” he says. Stephanie, in New Jersey, also didn’t mind selling Super Bowl squares or participating in helmet shakes when her son’s team went to Cooperstown in 2019. “We pay a lot for travel ball, so it was helpful to have our Cooperstown fees deferred,” she says. “And with the helmet shakes it’s kind of guilt free because there’s no pressure. You can walk by or you can donate.”

Kristina, an accounts-payable specialist in Northwestern Louisiana, disagrees that it’s harmless to ask people for money outright. “I refuse to do it. It’s borderline tacky, and it doesn’t teach the kids anything,” she says. Instead, her son’s 10U ( 10 and under) team is raffling off an in-home generator that they purchased, along with installation by their coach, who is also an electrician. They will use the proceeds to fund their trip to a summer tournament in Dallas organized by the USSSA Baseball organization.

According to Jamie Weiss-Flesher, the youth-program director for the New York arm of TBT Baseball, a national travel organization, fundraising is necessary to cover the cost of the coach accompanying the team. “If we didn’t fundraise, we’d have to raise our tuition, which would price out a lot of families,” she says. Eschewing the luxe tournament trend in favor of relative affordability isn’t an option: “Experience trips have become the expectation. Very few people want to play on a team that doesn’t go to Ripken or Cooperstown.”

For high-school players, tournaments like USSSA and Perfect Game are also where the college scouts are — or at least that’s what parents have been told. Kerry, a single mom of two and a move coordinator in Florida, relies on fundraising for her kids’ trips. She spends $700 to $800 every month for her son to play on his team, which maxes out her budget. “All we’re trying to do is give our kids a better shot at playing their sport and maybe getting a college scholarship,” she says. But Linda Flanagan, author of Take Back the Game: How Money and Mania are Ruining Kids’ Sports and Why It Matters , tells me that sports venues like Ballparks of America in Branson, Missouri, and the Ripken Experience (with locations in Aberdeen, Maryland; Pigeon Forge, Tennessee; Elizabethtown, Kentucky; and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) literally bank on the dreams parents have for their kids. “It’s very emotional for parents. They think, ‘If I raise $1,200 to offset the fees, this will pay off. Maybe my kid will end up getting recruited,’” she says.

Fewer than 2 percent of high-school athletes receive athletic scholarships, and 1 percent receive a “full ride,” according to Next College Student Athlete (NCSA), the largest college-athletic recruiting platform. Only six Division 1 sports are eligible for full scholarships: men’s and women’s basketball, football, women’s tennis, women’s volleyball, and women’s gymnastics. And that’s if they play at the collegiate level at all. Just 8.1 percent of high-school baseball players go on to play on their college team.

Thomas is a father of two boys and a volunteer basketball coach for a recreational team in Maryland. He says that many children on teams like his — which costs $85 per player for the season — need financial help to access any training whatsoever in the off-season. When he noticed that some of his players couldn’t afford summer clinics or camps, he started a GoFundMe to cover their tuition. To date, the fund has raised nearly $12,000.

“Someone should do this in every town,” he says. “I think everyone is aware of the inequity of the cost of youth sports and they want to help, but they don’t know how.”

Travel baseball parents could certainly show them.

Some names of parents and children have been changed to protect their identities.

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The Bangor Rams took care of business on the baseball diamond Monday night, trouncing the Brewer Witches 10-0 under the lights at Mansfield Stadium.

A highly anticipated matchup between Bangor sophomore ace Kyle Johnson and Brewer senior ace Grady Vanidestine, it was the Rams that broke the scoreless deadlock in the third inning, exploding for five runs and never looking back.

On the mound, Johnson took a no-hit bid late into the fifth inning, finishing with five strikeouts and his second one-hit complete game of the season — previously spearheading a 9-0 victory over Camden Hills (2-3) on April 22.

In the bottom of the fifth, Bangor sent Brewer packing two frames early, swiftly driving in five runs off junior reliever Zach Arnold and triggering the 10-run mercy rule.

“It’s not just me out there, it’s the other eight guys that make plays for me,” Johnson said. “It’s a combination of attacking the zone and trusting my defense behind me. The [no-hitter] is one of those things you don’t want to talk about to jinx it, so it’s just, ‘Put it in the back of my mind and go out there and pitch.’”

Eight of Bangor’s nine starters also got hits on Monday night, led by senior catcher Jack Schuck (3-for-3, two RBIs, one walk), senior shortstop Yates Emerson (2-for-3, one RBI, one walk) and sophomore designated hitter Scott Socobasin (1-for-1, two RBIs, two walks).

Johnson also batted in a run himself, smacking a single to center field with the bases loaded and nobody out in the third. Three batters later, Socobasin drove in his two RBIs on a single to left field.

In the fifth inning, Bangor only needed seven batters to score five runs, beginning with a sophomore Gio Socolow (1-for-2, one RBI, one walk) single, and ending with a Schuck RBI single that scored sophomore Gavin Glanville-True (1-for-2, two RBI, two runs).

“It feels great, especially against Brewer, coming out here with my guys and just having a day,” Socobasin said. “All of us worked hard. Go Rams, baby!”

As a team, Bangor finished with 11 hits, six walks, six strikeouts and no errors.

With the victory, Bangor improved to 4-1 on the season, and is averaging exactly 10 runs scored per game. The Rams also mercy ruled Edward Little (1-5) on Friday afternoon, dispatching the reigning regional champs 10-0 through four and a half innings.

Reigning Class A North No. 1 seed Brewer moved to 2-3 with Monday night’s result and is averaging a little less than four runs scored per game.

Next up, Bangor will travel to play Mt. Ararat (2-4) on Wednesday at 4:15 p.m., and Brewer will host Brunswick (2-4) on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.

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