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In over 65 years of operation,
Tri-Township has developed the belief that winning isn’t everything. More important than
winning, is teaching the children to exercise tolerance and modesty
in victory and to accept defeat graciously. We want the children
in our programs to develop a spirit of cooperation and team play.
Our youngest players are in a purely instructional program. As players
progress through the age groups, instruction is continually emphasized,
although the competitiveness of sports increases as the child’s
age increases.
Baseball League History
Over fifty years ago, a group of men dedicated to the youth of America met
in a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey, and formed what became the very first
Babe Ruth League. The program was renamed in 1954 when Claire Ruth, Babe
Ruth’s widow, who had learned of the merits of the organization and
its tremendous growth, met with the administrators. She subsequently gave
the organization permission to change its name to Babe Ruth League. She has
been quoted as saying, "Babe Ruth was a man who loved children and baseball;
he could receive no greater tribute than to have a youth baseball program
named after him."
Babe Ruth League, Inc. caught on nationally, then internationally.
It now ranks as the premier amateur baseball and softball program
in the world. Babe Ruth League, Inc. has increased steadily from
its first 10-team league in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, to its
present combined size of over 886,500 players on some 45,200 teams
in more than 7,315 leagues.
Local leagues are independent within the guidelines
provided by Babe Ruth League International Board.
Since 1982 the Bambino Division
now Cal Ripken’s
Division of Babe Ruth Baseball is a reality, serving the baseball
needs for young people 12 and under.
More information about Babe Ruth and Cal Ripken baseball
is available at:
www.baberuthbaseball.org
www.ripkenbaseball.com
Softball League History
The Amateur Softball Association (ASA),
a volunteer driven, not-for-profit organization based in Oklahoma
City, OK, was founded in 1933 and has evolved into the strongest
softball organization in the country. The growth and development
of the association led the United States Olympic Committee (USOC)
to name the ASA the National Governing Body of Softball, pursuant
to the Amateur Sports Act of 1978.
The ASA has many important responsibilities as the
national governing body of softball in the United States, including
regulating competition to insure fairness and equal opportunity to
the millions of player who annually play the sport.
When the ASA entered the softball picture in 1933,
the sport was in a state of confusion with no unified set of playing
rules and no national governing body to provide guidance and stability.
The ASA changed all that by adopting softball's first universally
accepted rules of play and by organizing consistent and fair competition
across the nation.
From this beginning, the ASA has become one of the
nation's largest and fastest growing sports organizations and now
sanctions competition in every state through a network of 88 local
associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early
days to over 250,000 teams today, representing a membership of more
than four million.
More information about ASA softball is available at:
www.softball.org |
