Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-06-05
Total Of 64S PLAYERS
By Steed Evans
Staff Reporter

might also De called the Capt.
tai of the junior baseball
world.
Rockville has more organized.
uniformed junior baseball teams
30 than any other city of
comparable size in the nation.
In the three years since the
Rockville Boys Baseball Associa.
ton was formed, the number of
boys playing has more than
doubled to the present total of
CAB players.
A stranger driving through
town any Saturday during sum.
mer might well believe the coun-
ty seat to be one big training
camp for baseball.minded young.
sters.
So thoroughly has league base
ball penetrated Rockville's popu.
lation of young males that almost
every player on Richard Mont
gomerys great team this year
is a product of junior league
play.
The kids start swinging the
hickory at a tender age. Pee
Wee teams in the association
start signing boys up when they
are 9.
The Pee Wee division is limited
to youngsters between 9 and IL,
the Midget division has them
from II to Is, and the Junior
division boys are from 10 to 16.
The Rockville Civilians field
the only senior team in the asso-
citation and those boys are from
16 through II.
Heading up the Association
this year is Freddy Teul, of 635
Blandford Street, Rockville. Teul
is the Associations third presi-
dent. The first was Paul Pfeifle
and the second was Tuck
Tucktan.
Before the Association was
formed, junior baseball schedule
ing was incomplete and tended
to leave too many would-be
sluggers warming the bench.
Now that the Association has
started, however, every kid gets
to play and each team plays a
minimum schedule of IA games
a season.
Aiding Teul are vice-presidents
Clarence Dodson and Marvin
Horsley backed up by secretary
Bud Day, treasurer Jim Ewing
and executive members Harry
Bean, Howard Stack, Bill Muir
ply and John Whelan.
Backbone of the Association
are the individual sponsors and
group sponsors who provide
money for uniforms. The City
of Rockville gave $1,000 this year
to buy bats and balls. The kids
buy their own gloves and, in the
case of the Junior teams, their
own spikes. All other players
except the seniors wear sneakers.
Sponsors of teams include the
Kiwanis, Optimists, Rotary, Jun
Tor Chamber of Commerce, Civil
tan, Potomac Baseball Associa.
ton, Lions Club, St. Jude's, st.
Mary's, F. o. Day, BealPs ESQ,
Wire Hardware, We Cab, Bridges,
Peter and Spencer, Budney Real.
ty, Macs ESQ, Leland Fisher,
Miller Fields Buick, Rockville
Construction, Co -op, Stauffer,
Geeraert, Standard Supply, Pepsi
Cola, and three groups of mer-
chants called Rockville Mer-
chants, Rockville Center and
Rockville Businessmen.
1t costs about 500 to field a
Pee Wee team which wears
shirts and hats supplied by spon-
sors; $3.50 for Midget and Junior
teams who wear full uniforms
hats, shirts, socks and trousers.
This season started April 9
and will wind up the first week
of August. Champions in each
division will be decided after the
best two out of three series
games. Neither division completes
against the other.
Teams play once a week until
school is out for the summer and
thereafter, they really get going
Each team must practice once a
week and most of them got out
there twice. They play one or
two times a week, depending on
the number of teams in each
division.
The Association uses high
school fields as well as fields at
Broome Junior High and various
recreation centers.
The Pee Wees scamper along
base lines shortened to so feet
Midget maulers use 75-feet lines
while the Juniors play on regu
lation 90-foot diamonds.
High school lads umpire the
Pee Wees. who play five-innine
games. Midgets play six and
Juniors seven innings.
Midget games are called by
adult members of the Association
while the county's association Of
urnnires call the Junior play.