A Whole New Ballgame …
Right Near Home

Maryland baseball fans had a real treat in 2005 as six teams of college stars began play in a brand new wooden-bat league, the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League. Thousands of fans from Baltimore to Bethesda and Rockville to College Park experienced summer nights of family fun with baseball at its most genuine at ballparks right near home.

We are very pleased and proud to be able to honor Cal Ripken, Sr., one of the nation’s and state of Maryland’s most admired baseball coaches.

We are building a strong community-based league that will help increase interest in baseball at the grassroots level. Our Bethesda team raises $50,000 each year to improve local baseball and softball fields. Several of our teams run camps to instruct young ballplayers and expose them to role model college players.

The baseball in the Cal Senior league is first-rate with players coming to Maryland from all over the country. Big leaguers like Mark Teixeira (Texas Rangers), John Maine (Baltimore Orioles), and Gavin Floyd (Philadelphia Phillies) have played for wooden bat summer teams in Maryland in recent years prior to signing professional contracts.

We hope you will join us in the 2006 season to watch these college stars and future pros play in community ballparks near your home.


William Spencer
Commissioner

CRSCBL Commissioner Bill Spencer was an All-ACC pitcher while a student at the University of Virginia in the 1960s. He managed one of the top semi-pro teams in the area and served as President of the Baltimore Major League from 1971 to 1982. Spencer was an NCAA football official for 20 years, the last 12 years at Division 1. Spencer returned to Baltimore in 2001 as the Senior Vice President and Baltimore Branch Manager of Ferris Baker Watts.

The mission of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League is to promote, promulgate, and perpetuate collegiate wooden-bat baseball in Maryland and the District of Columbia. By creating community-based summer collegiate baseball teams, the League seeks to promote amateur and youth baseball and softball in the area through the improvement of existing fields and facilities and fostering spirited competition with an emphasis on sportsmanship, teamwork, honesty, and fair play. The backbone of the Cal Ripken, Sr. Collegiate Baseball League is the investment in and partnership with local communities.