new york Empire Baseball
Day Camps
Play, Learn, and Grow This Summer
overview
Our Summer Day Camps provide an engaging and dynamic baseball experience for players of all skill levels. With no cancellations, these camps are held on days off from school and throughout the summer. Participants are grouped by age and skill, receiving training in all aspects of the game—covering beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
- Camp Types: Full Day, Half Day, Intensive Track For Advanced Players
- Locations: New York Empire Indoor Facility, Outdoors in Central Park
FAQ
What programs are available for my child?
We have 362 days a year of baseball - with after school classes, private lessons, group lessons, classes, our own Club League, Travel Teams, Day Camps, Summer Camps and we do events and parties, as well! In all of our programs, players are grouped by age & skill to ensure a terrific and individualized learning experience.
Our older players in AAA and Senior League have weekly practices and play competitive games each Sunday. The coaches are working on player and team development each week to ensure that players improve each season and learn valuable lessons on- and off-the-field.
Do you have a sibling discount?
We don’t have a sibling or any other discounts. We want everyone in our program to know that our integrity is paramount, and that no family pays a different price for anything that we do. We do have a generous financial aid program for families in need, as we would never allow money to get in the way of a player that wants to be in our program!
Where do you play?
We are based in our own two-floor 5,000 square foot training facility, The Arena, at 251 West 60 Street between West End Avenue & Amsterdam Avenue. Weather permitting, our after school programs are in Central Park, and our teams play at a variety of fields in Manhattan, including Central Park, Jefferson park (1st/112th), Wagner Field (2nd/120th), DeWitt Clinton (11th/54th) and sometimes on Randall’s Island. We’re excited to have field permits from the Parks Department for all of our programs, as they aren’t easy to come by!
Our travel teams also travel to other organizations’ fields throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau. We also attend tournaments in Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland.
My son is a beginner - I heard you guys are very serious - are you too serious for him?
Too serious? No way! All of our players are grouped by age and skill - so while we do offer very advanced training for our most capable and demanding players, we have a huge focus on teaching beginners how to really learn and play baseball. The game is a skill sport, and we’re very focused on teaching in an engaging and fun way to ensure that beginners can develop nicely. We aren’t a baseball babysitting staff - all of our programs are instructional - and that may be atypical of many youth sports programs, as it’s easier to administer a game than it is to teach all the time. We want every player to leave every experience better than when they arrived - and more passionate about the game and their development.
My son is advanced - he should play up with the older kids - what can you do for him?
Sounds exciting! We want every player to have the best competitive and developmental experience that we can offer - so we’re happy to have your son in for a free evaluation!
What glove is right for my son?
Contrary to popular belief, bigger isn’t better, and for young players, won’t help them to “catch more balls.” Making it even more complicated is that the size in inches doesn’t tell the whole story - as important as the quoted size is the size of the “hand stall” into which your son’s hand will fit. If the stall is too big, the glove will be falling off of your son’s hand and will be difficult to close when/how he wants to. We’ve carefully curated an entire selection of gloves from Wilson, Rawlings, Easton and Vinci to fit virtually every player and skill level!