Reminder:
MYBA Spring Work Day is set for TOMORROW - Saturday March 23 (weather permitting) from 9am - Noon. We could use ANY and ALL of your help for the whole 3 hours; or even portions of the time. Spring Work Day is vital to getting our fields ready for the upcoming season. Spring Work Day will consist of cleaning up fields and fixing the outdoor cage/netting. We hope to see you at Westwood Park to help with Spring Work Day!
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Next Saturday (3/30) is MYBA Travel Picture Days. Pictures will be held in the indoor hitting facility. Please check with your coach for uniform expectations, etc. Here is the schedule for Saturday. Please be early and ready for your team's time:
10:05- 13/14U Travel Light
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Thanks to Morton Dental Center!
MYBA would like to welcome our newest Grand Slam sponsor this year. From now on, Field 2, will be referred to as Morton Dental Center field.
A special thanks to MYBA and MHS baseball alum Dr. Pete Smidt for offering to sponsor Field 2. Dr. Pete has a great legacy with Morton Baseball and we are happy that he has offered to help the next generation of Morton Baseball players. Thanks Dr. Pete and we will see about getting that sign in the outfield where that first home run was hit when you were 9 years old. ;)
There are still sponsorship opportunities with MYBA, so if you are interested in getting your business advertised at the ball park, please shoot us an e-mail.
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Last call for MYBA In-house Umpires! Are you 14 years old and a baseball fan? MYBA has a great opportunity for you to make some extra cash! If you have already applied, you should have received an email from the MYBA Umpire Director. If you did not apply yet or if you applied and did not receive an email in the past few days from the Director of Umpires, please email Brandon Booth at:
Send your Name, Age, Date of Birth, phone #, and best email address.
The Umpire Clinic is this Sunday from 1pm to 2:30pm. Any required paperwork can be completed Sunday, just email the information above and show up with dates that don’t work for you this summer (vacations, sports, choir, etc) and we will work around your schedule. Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to be a part of MYBA and earn some cash at the same time. See you soon…Go Potters!!
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Reserve your Foursome NOW for the
Inaugural Morton Youth Baseball Association
$500 Hole Sponsorships Available
(Includes foursome and post-outing dinner for each golfer)
(Includes post-outing dinner for each golfer)
(Includes post-outing dinner)
Mulligans, String & Hand Grenades available for purchase
Prizes for Closest to the Pin and Longest Drive
To reserve your sponsorship or foursome, contact
Jason Vallar at jvallar9@gmail.com or 217-299-7077
or check the MYBA Website for more info.
Interested in volunteering and donating?
Reach out to Jason Vallar or the MYBA website.
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MYBA Spring Work Day is set for Saturday March 23 (weather permitting) from 9am - Noon. We could use ANY and ALL of your help for the whole 3 hours; or even portions of the time. Spring Work Day is vital to getting our fields ready for the upcoming season. Spring Work Day will consist of cleaning up fields and fixing the outdoor cage/netting. We hope to see you at Westwood Park to help with Spring Work Day!
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Registration Continues/Evaluations This Weekend Reminder: Registration for Morton Youth Baseball Association continues through this weekend. If you have not yet signed up your child, please log on to www.mortonyoutbaseball.org, click the green button on the right side "Click to Register" and proceed with registration.
Also, MYBA evaluations will be held at Morton High School - Saturday March 16, 2019. Please have your child bring a glove and their own bat (if have one, if not, they will be available). Please wear tennis shoes (NO CLEATS). We will be in the High School Gymnasium. The times for evaluations are as follows:
Maverick: 9:00am - 10:30am
Mustang: 10:45am - Noon
Broncos: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Pony: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
* You do NOT have to be at the full time of evaluations. Once you are complete with your evaluation, you are free to leave.*
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MYBA wants to welcome “Pumpkin Place” back as a sponsor of MYBA. MYBA is grateful for the numerous sponsors and especially those that continue to support us year after year. So a huge shout out to Pumpkin Place and many thanks.
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Good Evening:
With the upcoming MYBA season approaching, we are in GREAT need of head coaches and assistant coaches at every level from Pinto (TBall) all the way up to Pony. We currently have ZERO coaches registered for Pony League. It is imperative we get coaches signed up with registration upcoming next weekend.
If you are interested in coaching, please shoot us an email at mortonyouthbaseballassociation@gmail.com with what level you are interested in helping coach and if you can be a head coach or assistant coach. We also ask that you take a couple of minutes and register on the MYBA page as a coach. It only takes a couple of minutes, and it allows us to get your contact information.
Thanks for your time and efforts with Morton Youth Baseball Association!
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Thanks to Better Banks for Sponsorship Better Banks has stepped up and is now a sponsor of MYBA at the Triple level. We appreciate Better Banks using there advertising dollars at the ballpark where over 500 families will be watching baseball from April til October. With this sponsorship, they will have a sign on the outfield fence facing Veterans road.
If you would like to advertise with or become a sponsor of MYBA, please contact Tim Taylor at (309) 642 0008 or Brad Mitchell at (309) 265 5932.
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Thanks to Central Illinois Chicago Cubs Booster Club The Central Illinois Chicago Cubs Booster club has generously contributed to Morton Baseball for the third year in a row. We appreciate their continued support. Just to be fair, we cannot find a Cardinals or White Sox booster club to reach out to, but if any Cardinal or White Sox Fan wants to match the Cubs Booster club donation, please feel free to contact MYBA.
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We trust you are all doing well! Morton Youth Baseball will be here before you know it. Before it is, we have MANY things we would like to share.
A. Registration is still open. Click the green CLICK TO REGISTER button to get the process started.
B. Coaches and League Reps are still needed. Email mortonyouthbaseballassociation@gmail.com if you are interested.
C. Opening Day at Westwood Park is set for Tuesday, April 23rd. We hope to see many of you there for in house opening day!
D. High School Champion Head Coach Jesse Crawford has a few important notes for you as well:
- Baseball Spring Training; 2nd grade - 8th grade. These are Sunday's in March at the Morton High School gym. You must sign up via the Morton Park District here: https://morton.recdesk.com/Community/Program?category=3
- Morton High School Baseball has it's team shop open for a few more days. Get all the latest spirit gear for the upcoming season at the following link:
https://www.bsnteamsports.com/v3/shop/team_shop/cgtvDEvPEG#/?WEBSRC=b1609_13&%20utm_source=SilverPopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=shop_reminder&utm_content=shop_announcement
- FINALLY - The High School Baseball team will be hosting the Bowling for Baseball 2019 at Potter's Alley. Here are the important details for the event:
5:30pm - 7pm: Family Friendly Flight
7pm: Introduction of 2019 Varsity Potter Baseball Team
We will have spirit wear, the 2019 baseball shirts, snacks, nachos, door prizes, raffles, 50/50 and late night KARAOKE!!
All proceeds benefit the Morton High School Baseball Program.
Open to non-bowlers who would like to support MHS Baseball.
Cost: $20 per bowler with 5 - 6 bowlers per lane.
Contact Rachel Gudeman for a lane
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MYBA would like to thank ANJ electric for their home run sponsorship this year. ANJ has been a sponsor of youth baseball in Morton for many years and we appreciate their continued support.
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Thank you to these Sponsors!
MYBA supports over 500 kids in our community. We typically spend around $450 per kid in the program. In order to keep our costs low and affordable, every one of our sponsors plays an important role.
We would like to recognize and thank the following sponsors for their “single” or “double” sponsorship:
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Thank You G & D Intergrated! Morton Youth Baseball would like to recognize G & D Integrated for their “Home Run” sponsorship for 2019. G & D have sponsored MYBA for years and this year doubled their sponsorship this year. With the sponsorship, G & D, will have their logo on our website and social media, recognition on our sponsor board at the park, their name on our tournament entry forms and t-shirts, a sign on an outfield fence facing Veteran’s road and their logo on our travel team banners.
Thank you G & D Integrated for helping MYBA this year.
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MYBA Registration NOW OPEN!
Registration is now OPEN for all levels of MYBA for this coming spring/summer season. Please visit www.mortonyouthbaseball.org and click on the green CLICK TO REGISTER button to get the process started.
Evaluations will take place on March 16th, 2019 at Morton High School. Evaluations are for Maverick, Mustang, Bronco and Pony League. Evaluation times will be scheduled at a later time!
Pinto League does NOT have evaluations, and later in the spring, you will hear more details from your child's coach.
We look forward to seeing you at Westwood Park this coming Spring/Summer!
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MYBA is happy to announce that Lovell and Littlefield Orthodontics has signed up as a Triple Sponsor again in 2019. I think everyone in Morton with young kids has dealt with Dr. Lovell and Dr. Littlefield at one time and have sung their praises. We are proud to partner with them again for this upcoming year. Thank you for the donation.
Dr. Lovell is also one of our Travel coaches and volunteers as an associate board member.
If you would like to join Lovell and Littlefield Orthodontics as a sponsor, contract Tim Taylor at 309 642 0008
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MYBA Thanks Jimmy John's!
MYBA would like to thank Jimmy John’s for repeating as a GRAND SLAM sponsor. Jimmy Johns has been a great partner for MYBA for a couple of years and thru their generosity has turned Jimmy John’s field into our best youth field at the park. For their sponsorship, we no longer refer to that field by the former name, but on all correspondence on our website, notices and at the ballpark, it is known as Jimmy John’s field. Take a look at the pictures and see how great that field looks.
If you would like to have a field named after your company, please contract MYBA and let us tell you about the different sponsorship levels.
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Potter's Alley Partners with MYBA 
The Morton Youth Baseball Organization (MYBA) fundraising campaign is off to a great start.
We are really excited, not only for our league, but for our community to announce that “Potter’s Alley” (formerly Safari Bowl) has signed up to be a Triple Sponsor. They plan on opening for business in January. We are grateful for their contribution and especially excited to have a bowling alley stay open in Morton. Thank you, Richard and Diane Jones, for including MYBA in your marketing plan.
As we receive commitments for 2019 MYBA partners, companies and individuals will be acknowledged on our website and social media pages.
Triple sponsorship includes logo’s on our website and social media pages, recognition on the concession stand sponsorship board, and recognition during tournaments (signs, entry forms. and t-shirts). In addition, large outfield fencing banners facing Veterans Road will be placed.
Different levels of sponsorship from Single to Grand Slam are also available. A Grand Slam sponsorships includes everything in a Triple sponsorship plus company logo on our travel team banners and a field named after your company for the 2019 season with appropriate signage on the field.
We would love to partner with your business for 2019. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Tim Taylor at 309 642 0008 or fa18pilot@comcast.net
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