Welcome to NJ Baseball web's Series on starting a travel baseball team. The series will consist of several different topics about travel baseball and starting a team. Most of the information will be geared to new teams starting out but some established teams may pick up a few things.
Let me start of with saying I am in no way an expert in travel baseball nor do I pretend to be .There are many people in travel baseball who know more and coach better then I ever will. This is not a exact science on starting a travel team. It is just in my experiences things I wish I had heard before starting my own team. With that let me say my grammar is not the best either so let me apologize upfront for all my mistakes.
Who am I and what is my experience. Well who am I is not as important as what is my experience. But for name sake my name is Brian . I chuckle with that because when I started NJ Baseball web the number one question I received on e-mail's was who is running this site. I really guess that matters to some. I guess anyone who has been involved in travel baseball or a rec league knows you usually have some people who don't like you.
Well enough of that. My experience with travel baseball is nothing more then a few years ago I was looking for my son to play ball during the fall. There was no rec or travel that anyone knew of in our town, so I looked out of town and found a team. After discussing the league with the manager I realized we can start our own team in our town. So myself and some coaches started a town travel team. Well after a few years and a lot of help from some great people that team turned into a club of 14 teams playing travel and tournaments from Florida to New York. I can honestly say I am amazed at the response of the kids who wanted to play baseball. So over the few years I picked up a little experience.
I wanted to write the series to maybe help a few people . If I had some of the knowledge I have now the road would of been a lot easier. I just want people to have the resources in travel baseball I didn't that is what NJ baseball web is about getting information to teams and players who need it. So there you have it a little about me and the reason for the site and the series.
So stop back take a look I will be working on the series through out the winter and hope to have the first topic up soon.
