Sport Baseball No. of teams 13 Most recent
champion(s) Somerville Alibrandis | Founded 1990 Country United States | |
Motto Continuing the Yawkey Baseball Tradition in Boston | ||
The Yawkey Baseball League of Boston is a wooden bat baseball league comprising 13 teams representing towns in and around Boston. The league is named for the former owner of the Boston Red Sox, and Baseball Hall of Famer, Tom Yawkey.
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The league comprises players and teams from various collegiate programs, neighborhoods and multi-cultural backgrounds. The league objective is to always be inclusive and field top amateur baseball talent to satisfy the competitive nature of its players and provide a free entertainment option in the communities where games are played.
The YBL is the largest amateur baseball program for young men in Boston and has a 30-game schedule from May through July with a playoff and championship schedule in August. The YBL plays seven-inning games under Major League rules with some adaptation of NCAA requirements to ensure player safety.
The league has its roots in Boston back to the 1950s and was also known as the: City League, the Twilight League, and until 1990, the Boston Junior Park League. The league was renamed for Yawkey in 1990. In 2013 the league won the Eastern Massachusetts All Star Classic and has had many of its players be signed by professional baseball organizations.
The Yawkey Baseball League, Inc. is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) public charity incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.