Description: Tee Ball is held on Saturday mornings. The Tee Ball season is designed to introduce your young player to the fundamental skills of baseball in a fun, low-pressure environment. Our primary goal is to ensure every player has a positive experience while learning the basics of baseball and developing a love for the game!

Each Tee Ball session will be structured around various skill stations. These stations are age-appropriate activities designed to develop the core mechanics of the game. We focus on:

• Throwing: Learning the basic motion for safely and accurately throwing a ball.

• Catching: Developing hand-eye coordination to stop a thrown or hit ball.

• Baserunning: Understanding the sequence of the bases and running safely.

• Hitting: Building confidence by hitting the ball off a stationary batting tee.

• Game Rules & Sportsmanship: Introducing simple concepts like fair play, taking turns, and following directions.

Players will rotate through these different skill stations throughout the practice time, ensuring they get exposure to all the fundamentals.

We conclude each session with an informal scrimmage or game. In this segment:

• Players will hit using the batting tee or from a coach's front toss (soft, underhand toss close to the batter).

• The focus remains on having fun, practicing the skills learned, and applying them in a game-like setting.

Equipment: Children need to have their own glove for playing Tee Ball. Baseball Caps and Shirts are provided at the start of the season. Baseball pants and cleats are not required but are better alternatives than sneakers and jeans/sweatpants. Norfolk Baseball provides all other equipment. Children are welcome to bring any personal gear, but bats must adhere to the current standards here.

Description: A Ball is where a player starts putting together fundamental skills with the basics of baseball rules.  If registration numbers allow, we attempt to split the league into a Kindergarten division and a 1st grade division.

Time Commitment: One weeknight practice, usually for 60-90 minutes, but it can vary based on coach's discretion. Each team will play a 3 or 4 inning game held on Saturday mornings or afternoon. The timing of the games will vary for each team throughout the season.

What to Expect: At this age we introduce the kids to slow coach pitching without any strikeouts during the games. More focus is placed on proper positioning, defense, and play making. More advanced drills are used to develop a player’s ability to catch fly balls, throw further, and properly play each position. The games are typically three or four innings and limited to one hour. As the season progresses, especially if there is a 1st grade division, outs are enforced as we continue to introduce our 1st graders to standard baseball rules and situational play. Coaches are encouraged to introduce next-level skills (such as kid-pitch) during practices only, to ensure all kids at different stages of their development have fun and continue to develop.

Equipment: Children need to have their own glove for playing A Ball. Baseball Caps and Shirts are provided at the start of the season. Baseball pants and cleats are not required, but encouraged. Norfolk Baseball provides bats and helmets at this age. Children are welcome to bring any personal gear, but bats must adhere to the current standards here.

Description: The first introduction to live, scored, and officiated play.  The focus at this level is player development and enjoyment of the game.  While regular season standings are tracked, all teams are randomly seeded for the playoffs regardless of their regular season standings.  This encourages more development and opportunities for all players during the season.  Players also take part in the “KP Cup” in mid-May, a tri-town mid-season tournament which includes Plainville and Wrentham.  For detailed AA rules, click here.

Time Commitment: The season begins in late April and ends in mid-June, before the last day of school.  Players should expect one practice per week, typically on a weeknight, one weeknight game, and one game on Saturday.  Weeknight games are held at 5:30 and the day of the week will vary throughout the season.  Games typically last until about 7-7:30PM.

What to Expect: Evaluations begin at this age to help build balanced teams. The league is made up of 8 and 9 year-olds, although 9 year-olds that evaluate at the AAA level will be placed in the AAA division (exception – 4th grade 9 year-olds are automatically placed in AAA). A mix of coach pitch and kid pitch is utilized. Games are 5 innings long and can last about 90 minutes.  At the beginning of the season, coach pitch is utilized for three innings followed by two innings of kid pitch.  As the season progresses, this shifts to two innings of coach pitch followed by three innings of kid pitch.  Players learn to be good teammates and opponents, play each position and focus on situational defense, hitting, pitching, catching, and baserunning/sliding through practices and games.  Hitting lineups and defensive assignments tend to be more balanced in an effort to provide kids with an opportunity to try every position they are comfortable with.  Following the regular season, all teams participate in a slightly more competitive playoff.

Equipment: Children need to have their own glove, pants and cleats for playing AA Ball. Baseball Caps and Shirts are provided at the start of the season. At this age, most children are bringing their own helmets and bats.  Catching gear is provided by the league and any boy interested in playing catcher should wear a protective cup. Children are welcome to bring any personal gear, but bats must adhere to the current standards here.

We are still focused on developing our players at varying skill levels, however games can get more competitive as this is full kid pitch with 2 umpires.  The goal is to get kids playing time at varying positions with some players seeing more consistent positions based on skill, excitement for the position, and understanding of the game.  We support safety for our players and don't want to put someone in a position that they don't feel comfortable in.  There are two tournament style games, one being the KP Cup which is a tri-town mid-season tournament typically held in Wrentham in mid-May, and a AAA end of season playoff where all teams make the playoffs, seeding is done based on record.  Play is conducted on a field which is 46 feet from the mound to home plate and 60 feet between base paths. For detailed AAA rules, click here, this includes proper bats, pitch guidelines, etc.

Time Commitment: The season begins in late April and ends in mid-June, before the last day of school. Players should expect one set practice night in the season plus a variance of one-two games per week and/or an additional practice per week. The schedule will vary throughout the season. Weeknight games are held at 5:30 PM at Freeman Kennedy either on the AAA or Flex Field and typically end around 7:30 PM.

What to Expect: Teams are balanced - we use previous season coach's information and pre-season evaluations to help build teams. This league includes any 9 year-olds that evaluate at the AAA level, all 10 year-olds, and many 11 year-olds. Any 5th grader (11 year old) will also have the chance to play up in the Majors division depending on registration numbers and their evaluation/coach feedback from the prior year. Games are six innings long and exclusively kid pitch, there is a 2 hour time limit but if the six innings are completed early and the game is tied, they can go into extra innings if it doesn't exceed two hours. Practices are focused on developing players at various skill levels while creating a fun environment, this includes pitching, fielding, and hitting, advanced techniques, and understanding situational baseball: hitting, defensive alignments, and stealing bases. Balanced playing time is expected throughout the season, but during the KP Cup tournament and playoffs, hitting lineups can skew more merit based and aptitude for certain defensive positions will earn more time at those spots.

Equipment: Children need to have their own glove, pants and cleats for playing AAA Ball. Baseball Caps and Shirts are provided at the start of the season. At this age, most children are bringing their own helmets and bats.  Catching gear is provided by the league and any boy interested in playing catcher should wear a protective cup. Children are welcome to bring any personal gear, but bats must adhere to the current standards here.

Norfolk Baseball’s prime Cal Ripken competitive division and the last developmental baseball level kids will play until they enter the Babe Ruth program. Majors players will also take part in the “KP Cup”, a tri-town mid-season tournament. Play is conducted on a field which is 50 feet from the mound to home plate and 70 feet between base paths. This is slightly larger than the little league fields and helps the players begin to transition to the full size fields that await when they turn 13 years old.  For detailed Majors rules, click here.

Time Commitment: The season begins in late April and ends in mid-June, before the last day of school.  Players should expect one practice and about two games per week.  The schedule will vary throughout the season.  Weeknight games are held at 5:30 PM and typically end around 7:30 PM.

What to Expect: Teams are balanced - we use previous season coach's information and pre-season evaluations to help build teams. This league will be made up of 11 and 12 year-olds (7th grade 12 year-olds have the option to play up to the Babe Ruth league).  All 6th graders are placed in Majors.  Depending on registration numbers, some 5th graders may be placed in the Majors division while other 5th graders may be placed in AAA.  Pitchers are throwing fast and sometimes different pitches. Kids playing at this level are expected to have a strong grasp of the standard rules of the game. Pitchers are called for balks, runners may lead off and steal at will, players can run to first on a dropped third strike. Practices are designed to mature skill sets in preparation for a more advanced level of baseball. Games are six innings long. During tournament and playoffs, defensive positions and hitting line ups are more merit based and entirely earned.

Equipment: Children need to have their own glove, pants and cleats for playing at this level. Baseball Caps and Shirts are provided at the start of the season. At this age, most children are bringing their own helmets and bats.  Catching gear is provided by the league and any boy interested in playing catcher should wear a protective cup.  Children are welcome to bring any personal gear, but bats must adhere to the current standards here.

When kids complete the Cal Ripken program, if they choose to continue playing baseball, they may register for the Babe Ruth program, which ensures every kid has a place to play baseball every year until graduation. Whereas the spring Cal Ripken program is mostly based around in-town competition, Norfolk’s Babe Ruth teams participate in the Massasoit League, which is made up of several local towns which compete against each other.  The Babe Ruth teams are KP teams, which include players from Norfolk, Plainville and Wrentham.  Babe Ruth baseball registration is handled by a separate league, which can be found here.

What to Expect: The most advanced baseball program in town. No evaluations are held as players are typically separated into three divisions: Middle School (Grades 7 and 8), Junior Varsity (Grades 9 and 10), and Varsity (Grades 11 and 12).  Teams are formed from a pool of players from all three KP towns (Norfolk, Wrentham, and Plainville). Practices are designed to finely hone existing skills. Games are played through seven innings on a full sized baseball diamond.

Equipment: Kids need to have their own glove for playing Babe Ruth. Jerseys and Caps are provided at the start of the season. Baseball pants and cleats are required. Kids supply all their personal gear, and bats must adhere to the current standards here.