Saturday, April 28, is FIELD CLEAN-UP / WORK DAY for all of our baseball and softball groups. We need all hands on deck! We need all players’ families to assist and make sure our fields to be in playing shape in time for next week’s opening day! Please bring rakes, edging spades, shovels, hoes, yard waste bags, and wheelbarrows!

MAJORS BASEBALL and ALL SOFTBALL FAMILIES
The Marge Jones Field Work Day will take place on Saturday, April 28, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

AA and AAA MINORS BASEBALL FAMILIES
The True Park Field Work day will take place on Saturday, April 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

See you on Saturday!

Our 2018 Opening Day Celebration will take place at Marge Jones Field on Saturday, May 5. The Concessions Stand will be open all day! (Talk with your team parent to volunteer to work a shift!)

The day will begin with games at 9 am, with Rotary matched with Lincolnville Fire Department on the baseball diamond and CedarWorks taking on EBS on the softball field.

The Opening Day Ceremony will start at/about 11:00 am after the games, with formal introduction of all of our players (Tee Ball, Minors, and Majors - Baseball and Softball) on the field. Players will recite the Little League pledge, the National Anthem will be played, and a representative of our honored sponsors, the Camden Rotary Club, will throw out the first pitch.

Following the ceremony, our Concessions Crew will have the grills running and BBQing to their hearts content — join us for lunch!

The day will be capped by Knoxers taking on McCormick's with first pitch soon after the ceremonies wrap.

Cross your fingers for good weather, and join us for a great day of soft/baseball!

The Tee Ball Coaches will meet on Thursday, April 26, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., at Camden-Rockport Elementary School.

At this meeting, we will identify coaching pairings and distribute players among the 7-8 teams we end up fielding.  We will also discuss Tee Ball safety and tips on how to run your games.  If you are volunteering to help with coaching,  you are required to attend this meeting.

For more information, please contact Todd Mackey (todd.w.mackey@gmail.com) or Rick Thackeray (rthackerayjr@gmail.com). 

Choose "Active Seasons," choose "Tee Ball," and let the magic guide you ....

Please note that registration for the 2018 Majors Baseball and Triple A Minors Baseball seasons is now closed.

Response to our Triple A registration outreach was extremely positive.  Numbers are such that we cannot make our team rosters any bigger without compromising the quality of the experience for our players who have registered.

Double A Minors Registration is still open to interested 7-9 year-olds, but will close when we register our 44th player or on Friday, April 13 -- whichever happens first. 

To register for Double A Minors, please follow this direct link:  https://bit.ly/2HUUPg5 or choose "active seasons" from the Baseball main page.   

For more information, please email Todd Mackey (todd.w.mackey@gmail.com) or Peter Rollins (rollins@midcoast.com). 

Follow Five Town Little League on Facebook for in-season updates and highlights.

https://www.facebook.com/fivetownlittleleague/

We have posted our Parental Code of Conduct in the right column and made it a part of our Consent/Waiver/Release during registration. Please read it carefully in order to understand our requirements.

The FTLL Board of Directors voted to adopt a modest increase in our registration fees effective for the 2018 season, to track with cost of living increases and to improve our programs by funding much-needed equipment replacements. 

Major League Baseball and Major League Softball:  $75.00

Minor Softball and Minors Baseball ("Triple A" and "Double A"):  $50.00

Tee Ball:  $30.00

Please feel free to contact FTLL President, Rick Thackeray if you have any questions or otherwise wish to discuss this:  rthackerayjr@gmail.com

Please join us for our big 2018 season kick-off on Saturday, May 5, 2017 at Marge Jones field, in Rockport.

The festivities kick-off with early Majors Softball and Baseball games, starting at 9:30 a.m.  The snack shack will be open at 9:30 a.m., with the grills getting fired up around 11:00 a.m.  Please contact Cheryl LeBlond if you would like to help out with the grilling or anything else at the concessions stand. -- bruegger@roadrunner.com.

Around 12 noon, we will begin assembling for the Opening Day Ceremonies.  All of our players and coaches, from tee ball, baseball, and softball, will be introduced onto the field.  Our local Boy Scouts group will present the colors and the National Anthem played by a group of our student-athlete-musicians.  Our players will all take the Little League pledge.  We will honor our long-standing Little League sponsors, the Camden Rotary Club, whose President will throw out the first pitch of 2018.

After the ceremonies, we have more baseball and softball action afoot.

Come one, come all, and PLAY BALL!!!

Scholarships for all Appleton players will be funded through the Jeff Landwehr Memorial. Please contact Ken Butler for more information or visit the facebook page for the memorial.
kpbutler@tidewater.net