White Bear Baseball Association

The indoor portion of baseball tryouts will be held on Saturday, March 20, 2010.  An announcement regarding the outdoor portion of tryouts will be made when the field conditions permit.

All Fielding Tryouts will be held in the North Campus gym.

All Hitting Tryouts will be held at:

                                                            Line Drive Sports

                                                            479 Apollo Drive

                                                            Lino Lakes, MN.  55014

 Please arrive at both facilities at least 15 minutes early to allow sufficient time to check in and receive your registration number.  Players will be allowed into the gym prior to the tryout in order to play catch and loosen up.

Schedule:                          9 – 10 YEAR OLD TRAVELING TRYOUTS

FIELDING:  North Campus Gym

Last name begins with the letter A thru I:           8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. 

Last name begins with the letter J thru Z:           9:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

HITTING:                         Line Drive Sports:  

                                          All Players    6:00 p.m.  to  7:15 p.m.

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Schedule:                          11 YEAR OLD TRAVELING TRYOUTS

FIELDING:                    North Campus Gym

Last name begins with the letter A thru L:          10:45 a.m. to Noon 

Last name begins with the letter J thru Z:            Noon. to 1:15 p.m.

HITTING:                     Line Drive Sports:   

                                      All Players:        7:00 p.m.  to   8:15 p.m.

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Schedule:                          12 YEAR OLD TRAVELING TRYOUTS

FIELDING:                North Campus Gym

                                    All Players:         1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

HITTING:                    Line Drive Sports:  

                                     All Players:          8:00 p.m.  to   9:15 p.m.

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Schedule:                          13 YEAR OLD TRAVELING TRYOUTS

FIELDING:                North Campus Gym

                                    All Players:         4:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

HITTING:                    Line Drive Sports:  

                                     All Players:        9:15 a.m.  to   10:30 a.m.

Schedule:                          14 YEAR OLD TRAVELING TRYOUTS

FIELDING:                 North Campus Gym

                                    All Players:         7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

HITTING:                    Line Drive Sports:  

                                     All Players:        8:00 a.m.  to   9:15 a.m.

Welcome to the 2010 baseball season !  The registration for traveling teams is now complete.  If you have questions regarding late registrations please contact Chuck Kramlinger. 

In-House league registration will continue for approximately 2 more weeks at which time final lists will be compiled and teams identified.  As stated before, REGISTRATION WILL BE CONDUCTED 100% ON LINE.  If you have any issues, please contact Chuck Kramlinger, or any other Board member to let us know.  Thanks !

The WBBA Annual meeting was held Thursday, February 4th at 7:00  p.m. in Room 203 of the White Bear High School (South Campus).   We are continually looking for volunteer to help with many tasks.  If you are that special person who has a desire to lend a hand please send a message to our Webmaster (See the Contacts tab at the top of this page).  We are a volunteer organization and you make us better.

The persons listed below were elected to the office adjacent to their name:

Mark Prokosch                                 President

Kevin LaPlante                                Vice President

Belinda Dorau                                 Treasurer

Jay Brunner                                      Secretary  

Rick Caldecott                                  Traveling Dir.                                             

Open                                                  Asst. Traveling  Dir.

Shawn McMurtry                               Youth League Dir.

Fred Zappa                                       Sr. League Dir.                                       

Chuck Kramlinger                            Registration/Tryout Dir.

Al Kilgore                                           Field Maintenance Director

Equipment Director                                               Dan Granger

Tournament/Publicity Director                             Open

Volunteer Director                                                  Doug Goeltl

Field Scheduler                                                      Open

Howard McNertney                                                 Umpire Director

Fundraising Di.                                                        Bob Montividas

Concessions Director                                            Open

If you're interested in coaching this upcoming season, please fill out the coaching application, found in the coaching tab to the left, and mail it to our PO Box.  Interviews will be scheduled for early to mid February. 

WBBA

PO Box 10885

White Bear Lake, MN.  55110

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The WBBA has reserved North Campus once again ths year for spring warm-ups.  All members/participants can come to play catch, hit, and work on their fielding.  Times TBD but similar to last year - 6-9pm.  Dates open are:  Jan 15, Jan 29, Feb 12, and Feb 26th.

The Bellaire batting cages are also open each Tues and Thursday evening from 6-9 pm.  There is no cost to attend and use either of these offerings. 

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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball.  I'll tell you what I do.  I stare out the window and wait for spring.   Rogers Hornsby
 

Baseball is filled with great quotes, follow this link to read some more philosophy from around the "diamond".  http://www.quotegarden.com/baseball.html