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2010 Tee Ball Rule Changes |
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Beginning in 2010, Tee Ball Baseball will no longer be franchising seven year olds. This decision was made by the board of Tee Ball Baseball, Inc. on February 15th. This decision was the result of much concern that the Tee Ball World Series had become a home run derby rather than a display of defensive and offensive capabilities. During the last three years, a combined total of 321 home runs were hit during Tee Ball World Series. Most parks, like ours, cannot extend their fences to accommodate the technological advancement in bats and balls as well as advanced player abilities due to the earlier development of players beginning at age four. With these factors in play, Tee Ball Baseball believes that the time has come to focus on Four, Five and Six Year olds with Tee Ball and allow sevens to advance into coach pitch, machine pitch or coach pitch softball (girls). The five and six year olds will now play in the Tee Ball World Series and four and five year olds will play in a tournament that will be rotated among the franchise Tee Ball parks as we have done in the past. We have had many requests in the past few years to allow fours to participate in tournament play and we are happy to announce that in 2010 they will be able to do so. We have received several requests from parks currently outside the framework of Tee Ball Baseball to be franchised in 2010 due to this change. We believe that we will increase the number of teams participating and therefore expand interest in the tournaments now franchised by Tee Ball Baseball. We also believe that the game will return to its original intent of being a display of defensive and offensive skills rather than simply a display of home run hitters. We welcome your comments by way of email. Yours for our youth, Tod Brainard
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