Seeing as to how the other thread on youth baseball in this forum is kind of taking a turn as to comparing the two different leagues, I thought I'd ask what your local youth teams are playing in?

 

I know that when I went back home a couple weeks ago, I found out the Rockcastle County had switched to Cal Ripken from Little League.

 

When I asked a friend of mine why this happened, he told me it was because of the insurance factor. Little League's insurance policies run out on a league as soon as the all-star team has completed its post-season run BUT as for Cal Ripken, its insurance policies are for the entire season so when a league's all-star teams post-season run is over, they can still form tournaments and play thus getting the kids more playing time. At least that is what I was told.

I hate to hear that about Rockcastle

 

In this region, the Little League programs are:

Harlan

Tri-City

Leslie County

Hazard

Middlesboro

Pineville/Bell

Knox

Williamsburg

Corbin

North Laurel

South Laurel

Pulaski County

Burnside

Wayne County

Clay County

McCreary County

Jackson County

In Northern Kentucky it is mostly Knothole or Little League for the younger kids.. The better players start to play select around 10 or 11 which is AABC or USSSA..

Henderson plays Cal Ripken. Not sure why, they just always have.

Boyd County has 2 Little Leagues(Boyd Co National and Catlettsburg) and one Cal Ripken League that just started.

Teams in some local Little League tourneys included, Fleming, Flatwoods, Boyd, Ashlnad, Morehead, Catlettsburg, Lewis, Grayson, Olive Hill, South Shore, Greenup, And Louisa Fort-Gay.

Don't know if also have other leagues or not.

Knott County has Little League. It was once AABC, which I prefer.

Somerset is with Cal and Pulaski County is with LL

Teams in some local Little League tourneys included, Fleming, Flatwoods, Boyd, Ashlnad, Morehead, Catlettsburg, Lewis, Grayson, Olive Hill, South Shore, Greenup, And Louisa Fort-Gay.

Don't know if also have other leagues or not.

 

No disrespect to any of those leagues, but most of the better players play something other than Little League in Boyd and Greenup Counties.

I just knew they had teams in these tourneys, did not think they were the best but had no knowledge of anything else just answering the question to the best od my ability, both always have top notch high school programs. Just recalling the teams I seen while umpiring various tourneys, look forward to seeing them in high school.

When I asked a friend of mine why this happened, he told me it was because of the insurance factor. Little League's insurance policies run out on a league as soon as the all-star team has completed its post-season run BUT as for Cal Ripken, its insurance policies are for the entire season...........

 

Not true.

 

Little League charter and insurance runs through any fall league or training and development league, TAD as LL refers to it.......through December 31. If a league has a fall league no further charter or insurance fees are required.........this is on the littleleague.org website.

Not true.

 

Little League charter and insurance runs through any fall league or training and development league, TAD as LL refers to it.......through December 31. If a league has a fall league no further charter or insurance fees are required.........this is on the littleleague.org website.

 

 

Like I said before, I was just going off what I was told when I went back home.

Somerset is with Cal and Pulaski County is with LL

Actually, Pulaski County plays both and Somerset plays Cal Ripken. The Cal Ripken League is Lake Cumberland and I am sure between the South and the North, it is made up mostly of county kids.

Cal Ripken is the top dawg here in Lexington. They are always winning something. Little League has slacked with Parks ans Rec. greatly and is deeply missed.

Morehead plays Little League

 

Are there any rule differences?