2025 Pinto Travel Baseball

 

Expectations:

- Tryouts will be held early Fall for 2nd & 3rd Graders. 

- For 9u,  one A and one B team will be selected. For, 8u one team will be selected. Practice details will be communicated after tryouts

- Winter Workouts will be held Jan-March. 

- Pre-season Travel practices will run concurrent with the house league (~three per week running concurrent with the house league, April-June). 

- Teams play in the Lake Shore Feeder Baseball League (lsfbl.com), which has a 14 game regular season and concludes with a single elimination tournament.  In addition, each team plays in one tournament during the season.

- Once the season starts in June, there will be five to six baseball events (practices and/or games) per week beginning in June.

- The Travel League has ended the 3rd week in July in recent years.  Players are expected prioritize baseball over other sports from May thru the 3rd week in July and have minimal absences, if any.  

Fees:

Payment Dates

• 8u – 11/1/24 ($1550)

• 9u – 11/1/24 ($1650)

 

 Mandatory Winter Workouts

• Two practices per week running Jan 4th through March 16th

• Hitting/Pitching (cages) and team defense (turf)

• Tentative Schedule: Saturdays @9-10a (Cages) and @10-11a (Turf)

• Located at the Yard (722 Landwehr Road, Northbrook)

• Led by Commissioners and IBA Senior Coaches

 

Pre-season practices

• 3 per week starting the first week in May- early June (concurrently with House League)

• All travel players must play house league and should prioritize those games

 

 

Questions? Contact

8U: Dave Miller at pony@wilmettebaseball.org

9U:Allen Hermeling at ahermeling@wilmettebaseball.org