Junior High baseball

[XMan]

Does your school have junior high baseball? Is there ANY school that has this? The UIL lists this as a sport but I dont know of anyone that plays it.

[GrTigers6]

I dont know of any. But that doesnt mean anything.:D

[BaseballUmp]

He's baaaaaaack

[Yoe_09]

We dont but I would like to see it.

[3afan]

there is some middle school softball in the DFW area

its brutal

[XMan]

Jr High baseball will never catch on. Wish it would, but it wont. Also, it can be played anytime during the school year, you just have a certain number of consecutive days to get it in. Having it would really help the non rich kids that cant afford all the high dollar daddy ball mess that goes on. It would really help to even the field for the minority kids.

[Old Tiger]

Watching the old LLWS there were more black kids playing then than there are now.

[wildstangs]

I believe some of the El Paso districts do. Maybe Ysleta?

[bigwood33]

Feel free to move to Oklahoma....they play ms baseball there.

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by XMan
Does your school have junior high baseball? Is there ANY school that has this? The UIL lists this as a sport but I dont know of anyone that plays it. nope, but we have an OUTSTANDING Little League program :D

[Dub-C]

Originally posted by XMan
Does your school have junior high baseball? Is there ANY school that has this? The UIL lists this as a sport but I dont know of anyone that plays it.


My son plays select ball. That's the option for him to continue to play baseball when babe ruth is not up and running.

[Super_R]

Originally posted by bigwood33
Feel free to move to Oklahoma....they play ms baseball there.

I had a buddy of mine that won state twice in the same year...fall and spring.

[GreenMonster]

I also think that the Houston ISD supports jr hi baseball.

[NastySlot]

a long time ago.....late 80's i know the DISD did ...i ump'd some of their games.....plus sub-varsity games.

in the San Antonio area the Catholic M.S. don't know about the public schools.

[Matthew328]

Dallas ISD has junior high baseball

[pancho villa]

MS baseball what a joke! This is a time in a childs life we should be teaching them to exercise NOT STAND AROUND!!!!!

[baseballcoach13]

Mississippi has JH baseball too.

I coached it for 6 years as well as varsity. It was a huge benefit for the program to have a kid in your system for 6 years. By the time they are seniors they know what you want as well as any coach on staff.

What sucked was JH double headers on Monday, and Thursday, and Varsity/jv double headers on Tues, FRi, and and 4 games on Sat.

[NastySlot]

Originally posted by pancho villa
MS baseball what a joke! This is a time in a childs life we should be teaching them to exercise NOT STAND AROUND!!!!!


right they should be at jh track meets missing races....waiting for their turns to get run throughs at the pole vault pits........and stuff like that...Right

[pancho villa]

Originally posted by NastySlot
right they should be at jh track meets missing races....waiting for their turns to get run throughs at the pole vault pits........and stuff like that...Right

You darn skippy!

[mustanglonghorn]

North Zulch ISD has it, I believe they play Iola and Normangee during this time but don't hold me to that........good idea, hard to make happen

[coach]

Originally posted by 3afan
there is some middle school softball in the DFW area

its brutal

i can only imagine...

our jr high has golf...i bet you see some 200's put up

[dirtysouth]

So schools can have Jr. high Football, Basketball, Tennis, Golf, and Track but no Baseball. Doesnt seem right to me. The two most popular sports in Texas are Football followed shortly thereafter by baseball.

[91 lion]

Originally posted by XMan
Jr High baseball will never catch on. Wish it would, but it wont. Also, it can be played anytime during the school year, you just have a certain number of consecutive days to get it in. Having it would really help the non rich kids that cant afford all the high dollar daddy ball mess that goes on. It would really help to even the field for the minority kids.

I agree 100%. By the time HS rolls around, most all athletes are spoken for, in regards to thier sport(s).

The kids that are continuing with baseball in HS have had to play 2-3years oif Jr. select ball....just to continuine playing after Little League, to bridge the gap.

My boy is playing select ball, and it is 300-400/month easily for these travel teams....and he is only 12. Im a little league guy first, but our league has been decimated by select ball the last few years, so it's really our only option for him to play.

Opening it up to Jr. High would allow the kids that don't play select ball a chance to experience another sport at a different time in their development.

I know that it will probably never happen, but I would be for it.....and if MLB really wants to do something about the inner city/minority decline in interest in baseball, they should fund programs for Jr. Highs, versus just building parks.

That would spark interest for sure.

[Ernest T Bass]

Every town Ive lived in, little league goes clear to 14 years old(normal age for an incoming freshman). So, where is the gap?

[91 lion]

Originally posted by Ernest T Bass
Every town Ive lived in, little league goes clear to 14 years old(normal age for an incoming freshman). So, where is the gap?

Ours stopped at 12. And the gap is that once these kids started to play the other school-sponsored sports, the interest was gone in LL. The super serious continue with select, but thats it.

2 years ago we had enough Jr High aged kids to make up 1 team for Jrs Little League....that's not a league......where, in comparison, our under 10 league has 18 teams.

If it was school sponsored, you would garner a lot more interest.

Maybe it's just my area that has been hit hard by this, I don't know, but I do know that interest is waning.

[NastySlot]

Originally posted by dirtysouth
So schools can have Jr. high Football, Basketball, Tennis, Golf, and Track but no Baseball. Doesnt seem right to me. The two most popular sports in Texas are Football followed shortly thereafter by baseball.


no they can have baseball and some even have soccer.