A professional youth baseball development program for Greenwich ballplayers, ages 9 to 12. Built on real coaching, honest development, and a schedule that puts a boy's long-term growth ahead of this weekend's result.
A baseball is held together by 108 stitches — not one big seam, but 108 small ones, each doing its part.
When the ball is flying, you never see them. But without them there's no ball, no pitch, no game. The stitches are the whole thing. They just don't get the credit.
That's how we build a young ballplayer. The work that matters most is the work nobody's cheering for on a Saturday — footwork drilled until it's automatic, mechanics fixed one rep at a time, an arm cared for now so it's still there at sixteen.
Greenwich has no shortage of baseball. It has a shortage of honest, professional development that refuses to burn a kid out by thirteen.
A trained, accountable head coach for every age group — and a hard rule that no coach runs the team his own son plays on.
Two practices for every game. Roughly 40 games a year at the youngest level — well under the 70 to 90 travel ball packs in.
Pitch counts below the national maximums, mandatory rest, no-throw stretches, and an annual arm screen for every pitcher.
Every spot earned through a blind evaluation by outside coaches. Real financial aid from day one, so cost is never the barrier.
There's only one founding class — the players who set the standard before anyone else arrives. We're building it now, from the ground up. If that's the kind of program you want your son in, we'd like to hear from you.
Register your interestTo develop 9-to-12-year-old ballplayers in Greenwich the right way — through professional coaching, evidence-based training, and a deliberately balanced schedule that puts a boy's long-term growth ahead of this weekend's result.
We want to produce better players, healthier athletes, and stronger young men — and to be a program families across Greenwich are proud to be part of, no matter where their son goes to school.
That's the whole aim. Everything below is how we get there.
These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the filter every decision runs through — every roster, every lineup, every practice plan, every pitch.
The highlight reel lies about how players are actually built. Nobody develops a swing at a showcase. They develop it in the reps that look boring from the bleachers.
We'd rather your son be the best-taught player in his age group than the one with the most tournament hardware. Our practices are built for it: station-based, no standing in lines, a written plan for every session, active reps tracked by player. We run two practices for every game, because practice is where players are made and games are just where you find out.
You cannot buy your son a spot on this roster, and you cannot buy him development. Every spot is earned through a blind evaluation run by outside coaches who don't know your family and have no stake in the outcome. Playing time is earned on the field.
The other half of that promise: money will never be the barrier. From our first season, a real share of every roster is on financial aid — funded on purpose, so this stays a development program and never becomes a country club. The currency here is work, not the checkbook.
We are not building a pitching machine. We're building an athlete and a young man, and baseball is one part of that.
We want multi-sport athletes. We schedule around football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and squash — and we mean it, with no penalty for missing a session for another team. Specializing in one sport before fourteen is bad for a young body and a young athlete, and we won't pressure a family into it.
And we protect the arm like it's ours. This is where we don't bend. Pitch counts sit below the recommended national maximums, not at them. Rest days after an outing are mandatory. There's a stretch of the year with no throwing at all, and every pitcher gets an annual arm screen. The youth arm-injury epidemic is real, and keeping your son healthy is a duty we take as seriously as anything we do.
We won't sell you exposure. We won't promise your eleven-year-old a college scholarship. We'll show you the work instead, and let it speak.
Our players play fewer games than the travel programs down the road — by design. That's not us doing less. That's us protecting rest, growth, and your family's weekends on purpose. We'll turn down tournaments and decline invitations to hold that line. Excellence doesn't need a megaphone. We demonstrate it.
You don't get better in the games. You get better in the work — the reps you take when nobody's watching, the drills that feel boring, the throwing you do right even when no one's keeping score.
That's the part we care about most, and it's the part that's completely up to you. Nobody hands it to you. You earn it. One stitch at a time.
Do that, and the player you become will surprise you. We can't wait to coach you.
We know what you're weighing. Another program, another season, another set of promises. Here's ours:
We will develop your son honestly, protect his arm and his love of the game, respect your family's time and his other sports, and tell you the truth about where he is and where he's headed. We won't oversell you, and we won't cut corners on the things that keep him healthy and improving.
That's the program. That's the whole thing.
Four age groups, 9U through 12U. One team per age group, kept small on purpose. A year built around development blocks, not a tournament grind.
Youth baseball is producing arm injuries at rates that were unheard of fifteen years ago. Our protocol isn't a marketing line — it's a duty of care.
The best thing a 10-year-old can do for his baseball is play other sports. We schedule our year to make that possible, not to punish it — winter sessions work around basketball, hockey, and squash; the fall block is built to overlap with football, soccer, and lacrosse.
There's no financial penalty and no guilt trip for missing a session for another team. A multi-sport athlete is a better athlete, and a better athlete becomes a better ballplayer. That's not a compromise in our model — it's part of the plan.
Tuition is justified by who's on the field, not by a logo on the hat. Every dollar a family spends should show up in the quality of instruction their son gets.
A professional head coach owns each age group's development plan, practice design, and lineups. Four head coaches, four teams — no committee, clear accountability.
One voice on hitting across the whole program. Standardized progressions, winter cage blocks, and in-season at-bat audits so no two coaches teach the swing differently.
Owns the pitch-count system, arm-care program, and return-to-throw protocols. This role is non-negotiable — it's the reason the arm-health promise is real.
Trained volunteers, some of them parents, who run drill stations and reinforce instruction. They do not run practice, set lineups, or decide playing time.
Every paid head coach clears a real bar: college playing experience, at least two seasons in a genuine instructional role, and active certifications — Positive Coaching Alliance, USA Baseball, and SafeSport. References are checked. Nothing is taken on trust.
And the one rule that matters most: head coaches do not coach their own children.
It's the single biggest predictor of trouble in youth sports — the lineup argument, the playing-time whisper, the parent who's also the boss. We remove it entirely. Coaches are evaluated twice a year against a written rubric, on annual contracts. Re-hire is never automatic.
Coach bios and staff announcements go out to interested families first. Register your interest and you'll be among the first to hear.
Register your interestStraight answers. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.
No. The program is open to baseball families across Greenwich and lower Fairfield County. Roster spots are filled by tryout and earned on merit — where a boy goes to school does not decide whether he makes a team.
No, and we've built the structure specifically to make that impossible. The program is an independent nonprofit with its own board. Roster selection, coaching hires, and financial-aid decisions are made independently, and no school has a role in any of them. Evaluation is blind to a family's background. We'll state this plainly because it protects the program's integrity — and yours.
Tryouts are run by outside evaluators — coaches and former players with no connection to any family in the program. They score every player against a published, written rubric across at least two sessions. Rankings drive selection. A coach never picks his own roster off favorites, and every evaluation is documented and available to the family who requests it.
Every family whose son isn't offered a spot gets a phone call — not an email — within 72 hours. That call includes specific feedback, at least two strengths and two things to work on, a concrete recommendation for the season ahead, and an open invitation to try out again. Cut families are welcome at our clinics and camps. How we handle this matters as much to us as who makes the team.
Yes — we encourage it. We schedule around football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, and squash, and there's no penalty for missing a session for another team. We believe specializing in one sport before fourteen is a mistake, and our calendar reflects that.
Fewer than a travel program, on purpose — roughly 40 a year at 9U, rising toward the mid-50s by 12U, against the 70 to 90 that travel ball often runs. We put two practices behind every game. Lower volume is the philosophy, not a limitation.
Pitch counts sit below the national maximums and are logged and audited every week. Rest days after outings are mandatory, there's a minimum of eight no-throw weeks a year, and every pitcher gets an annual arm screen through a sports-medicine partner. Breaking balls are held back until much later. A dedicated arm-health coordinator owns all of it.
Tuition is tiered by age group and covers the full year of development. Financial aid — partial and full — is available from our very first season, funded on purpose so that cost is never the reason a capable player can't take part. Specific tuition and aid details are shared with families as part of the interest and tryout process.
Indoor training is planned for winter 2026–27, with the first season of games in spring 2027. Registering your interest now puts you on the list for information sessions, tryout dates, and coaching announcements as they're confirmed.
Register your interest and tell us what's on your mind. A real person will get back to you.
Get in touchTell us about your ballplayer. We'll add you to the list for information sessions, tryout dates, and coaching announcements — and answer any questions you have.
Plain language on what we collect, why, and how we handle it — especially where it concerns your son.
This policy explains what 108 Baseball collects through this website, why we collect it, and how we handle it. We've written it in plain language. We'll keep it current as the program grows.
When you fill out our Player Interest form, we collect what you enter:
We also collect basic, non-identifying information about how the site is used.
For one purpose: to follow up with you about the program — information sessions, tryout dates, coaching announcements, and answering your questions. That's it.
Our Player Interest form is intended for parents and guardians, not children. We ask that a parent or guardian complete it on the player's behalf, and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted information without a parent's involvement, contact us and we'll delete it.
Form submissions are processed by our form provider and delivered to our program email. We may keep contact details in the tools we use to run the program, such as an email or spreadsheet system. Those providers handle the data under their own terms, only to provide their service to us.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. We don't share it with other programs, and we don't use it for advertising. We share it only with the service providers who help us operate the program, and only as far as they need it to do that.
We keep your information while it's relevant to your interest in the program. You can ask us to see what we have, correct it, or delete it at any time — just email us and we'll take care of it.
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, limit who can access submissions, and use reputable providers. No website or system is perfectly secure, but we treat your family's details with care.
If we change this policy, we'll update it here with a new effective date.
Questions, or want your information removed? Email us.
Effective October 2026. 108 Baseball, Greenwich, Connecticut.