Back by popular demand, Fall Ball will be offered this year through Johnson City National-Major Little League. Our goal is to have fun playing baseball in a laid back atmosphere, continue the learning and skill development begun in the spring, and provide an outdoor sports option during the fall season. JCNMLL will offer a season of 14 games on the schedule. If games are rained out or canceled for any reason we will not make those up during the fall ball season. Just like last year we will keep it a noncompetitive season. We will not keep score or track records. Games will start the week following Labor Day weekend, September 6th.
Fall Ball is a season that allows players to participate in the division that they will play in the upcoming Spring Season. Please note that all players will play in the Fall Season as their 2023 "Little League Age" - for baseball this is a player's age as of 8/31/23. Please refer to the 2023 Little League Age Chart: https://www.littleleague.org/downloads/2023-baseball-age-chart/ It is also posted on our website.
A COUPLE OF FEATURES THIS SEASON:
- No tryouts or drafting of teams! Friends, spring teammates, play with someone from a different league, and neighbors may request to play together, so please put your requests in during the registration process. If you want your child to play for a specific manager or coach please make that known during the registration process. No worries if you don't have a specific team or friend for your child to play with the league will assign them to a team. Managers may request certain players to be on their teams.
- Cost will be $55.00.
- Two games a week. As of right now Tuesday and Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m., but that is subject to change depending on registration numbers and how many teams we have.
- Residency requirements are NOT required for the fall season. So, please skip those sections during the registration process.
- School Enrollment Form is also NOT required for the fall season, so again please skip this section during the registration process. If it tells you that you are out of zone just keep going. You will be able to close out the registration. The program is set up for Spring Season, so again just ignore the residency and school requirements.
- To sponsor a team it will be $200. The company name will be listed on the back of the shirt/jersey.
- Each player will receive a shirt, and hat. Each team will have the league's logo on the shirt and hat. Teams will be different colors.
- We will offer these three divisions, Minor Coach Pitch Division(5-8), Major Little League Division(9-12), and Junior League Division(12-14)
ABOUT THE THREE DIVISIONS:
Minor Coach Pitch Division is little league age 7&8 year old children. 5&6 year old children may play in Minor Coach Pitch if they have played at least one season of Tee Ball.
Major Little League Division is little league age 9-12 year old children. Major Little League is player pitch.
Junior League Division is little league age 12-14 year old children. If we receive enough registrations, the games will be on Bud Seaver Field (817 Liberty Bell Blvd). This division may interleague with another Little League if possible. Everything with this division will be determined by the number of registrations we receive for it. If we do not receive enough registrations to form teams, we will have to cancel this division and issue refunds. So, definitely let your friends and old teammates know that we are offering Junior League this fall. How this Fall Season goes will help determine if we add it to the Spring Season in 2023.
Again, please don't worry about the RESIDENCY AND SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT question. You can pick SCHOOL or HOME. If you pick SCHOOL and your player doesn't attend one of the school's listed please pick HOME. Then you can skip the residency requirements, and save that section. The question is required during Spring Registration since you must play where your home or school is zoned for, and we are unable to delete it for Fall Ball registration. You don't have to live or go to school in our zone for Fall Ball.
Registration will be open from Thursday, July 21st to Thursday, August 11th at 11:59 p.m. Once registration closes it's closed. We will NOT be accepting any late registrations. We will be forming teams Friday, August 12th and Saturday, August 13th. Once the managers receive their rosters they will contact their teams. The practices will start Monday, August 15th.
We do ask that no travel teams register for Fall Ball. We don't mind if your player plays travel ball we just don't want a full team of travel players for a noncompetitive season. Your travel team wouldn't have fun, and the other teams wouldn't have fun either. Thank you and we hope you understand.
Thank you,
JCNMLL Board of Directors