2008 BPAA Baseball

General Information Page 

Frequently Asked Questions

Forms

Volunteers

Concession Stand

Uniform Deposit

A Special Note to Parents

League Structure

Volunteers

BPBA is an all volunteer organization dedicated to providing fun and education to hundreds of Brooklyn Park area youth through the sport of baseball. BPBA meets at 7:00 PM (8:00 during the Baseball season) on the second Sunday of each month at the Brooklyn Park Community Center. This meeting is an open meeting!  Even if you don't attend these meetings, you will be expected to donate a few hours of your time to help make our program a success.  Please see more details on the Volunteer Page.

Concession Stand

Our Major source of revenue is the concession stand at Northwoods Park. A $100 volunteer deposit check will be required for each player. (You may combine more than one player on one check.)

If your child is playing on an American League team, you will be required to work approximately 2 shifts per child.   If your child is playing on a National League Team, you will be required to work 1 shift per child.  Traveling team parents are required to work 3 shirts per child and every effort is made to schedule these during the time their child is playing in a tournament at Northwoods.  Shifts are generally 2-4 hours in length.  Anyone 16 and older can work your shift.

Volunteer shift sign ups will happen through your coach. To the best of our ability, shifts will be scheduled to coordinate with your player’s tournament game times (work before or after your child’s game), during week night league games (with viewing capabilities from the concession stand), during the end-of-season picnic (game stations or concessions), or during other tournaments sponsored by BPBA. Remember, these tournaments raise a significant amount of money, which in turn, lowers all our costs.

Volunteer deposit checks will be cashed if you do not show up for your shift(s) or if you indicate that you do not want to work your shift.  At the end of the season, all remaining deposit checks will be shredded.

Uniform Deposit

The deposit for American League, National League and Instructional League will be $75.00. Last year a number of uniforms were not returned and the equipment director spent considerable time and effort trying to collect them all. The coaches will collect the deposit prior to distribution of the uniforms. Checks will be held in a safe deposit box until the end of the season. Your coach will return the checks when he collects the uniforms. They must be washed before you return them.

A Special Note to Parents

It's easy to be taken in by our own competitiveness and forget our manners when watching our children participate in games and practices. Many of the umpires and all of the coaches you will come in contact with are volunteers. Others are teenagers trying to learn how to umpire at a very basic level and earn a little money while doing so. They are going to make calls you don't agree with. They may even make some calls that are wrong. If you feel you must criticize someone, please do it privately ill a calm manner. If we all remember that Coaches coach, Players play and Parents cheer, everyone's experience with youth baseball will be a lot more fun.

For more thoughts on this subject, check out this article.

BPAA League Structure (Scroll down for details)

7 Year Old National League

8 Year Old National League

***When a child turns 9 they can decide to either try out for an American League team or continue to play in the National League.***  

9/10 Year Old National League

9/10 Year Old American League

11/12 Year Old American League