Club League Baseball

Our Club League is coached by our coaches & instructors – not by parents – and offers a very developmental yet competitive experience for all ages and skill levels.  In our younger groups (Rookie, A and AA, ages 4-5, 6-7, 7-9), each week begins with one of a series of structured lessons with our instructors and coaches, followed by a competitive game in which our coaches are in the dugouts and on field coaching and teaching throughout the game.  From time-to-time we even stop the game if there’s a teaching moment that will benefit everyone.

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.

Level of competition and in-game instruction & development.  Our Club League is a developmental program that maintains a very healthy level of competition, while our Travel Teams are extremely selective in their rosters and play a more advanced level of competition.  Roughly 5% of our players qualify for travel baseball.  Our Club League is far more advanced than most, as it’s trained and coached by our full coaching staff, and games are preceded by one of a series of structured lessons for the players - and with coaches on the field throughout the game, players are learning as they go.  We take advantage of teaching moments throughout every game to instruct individual players and sometimes both teams at once with a stop in play. 

Our programs are suited for ages 3.5 and up - and our oldest player is 75!

Our coaches are specifically trained instructors that are skilled in communicating and coaching different age groups differently - and most importantly, we group players by age & skill to ensure a terrific and individualized learning experience.

We’d be happy to have a player in for their first class so that they can get a great sense for our program - but our classes build on content from week-to-week so we aren’t a drop-in/pay-per-class program.

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!

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 youngest players are about 3.5 and our oldest players are late teens, with some young (and older adults), as well.  Our Club League ranges in age from 4-12 and our travel teams are 7/8 - 14 this year.

No, all of New York Empire Baseball’s coaches are independent of the parents. Our parents are encouraged to support their child’s efforts on and off the field, but not to provide instruction or coaching during the games.

For our Club League we seek to place every player in the right place for their own development, so if they’re on the cusp of an age group, we’re happy to place them up or down to ensure a great experience for them and the players around them.

For Travel Baseball, we defer to the leagues and tournaments in which we play, most of whom still use a May 1 age cutoff - that is (for example) a player in “10U” cannot turn 11 in that calendar year prior to May 1.  Players remain in that age group for the duration of the calendar year.

We do our best to group the players by both age and skill, and we’ve tweaked our age groups so that they are Rookies (T-Ball/Coach Pitch 4-5), Single-A (Coach pitch 6-intermediate 7), AA (Coach Pitch Advanced 7-Intermediate 9), AAA (Player pitch Advanced 9 - 10) and Senior League (Player pitch Advanced 10—13).  It’s not perfect, so we’re happy to have players in for a free evaluation to determine their best fit in our League.

There are, indeed!  While there aren’t many, they are treated the same as all of our players, and we’ve had some pretty amazing success stories, with one of our girls so far going on to play softball at Yale.

We don’t - as we don’t segregate the children by gender - only by age and skill.

We do - the mechanics of baseball and softball are nearly identical - so we teach softball, as well - but we don’t currently teach windmill fast-pitching.

In our Club League, players rotate positions every inning and are taught how to play every position – so that they can better understand the game and learn how to play everywhere – as they get older they’ll become more specialized based on their interests and strengths and the needs of their teams.  Our after school program is a series of instructional lessons that build from week-to-week in which players learn every aspect and position in the game.