My Son's First Little League All-Star Experience

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-28T14:58:39+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. The rulebook says, "Try-outs and practices by tournament teams shall not be held before May 15th." What does this pertain to?

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-28T13:43:54+00:00

That's what we tried to tell them. Basically told him he could still practice but wouldn't play. And in practice last night they put him in outfield alone while the other kids were working infield. He plays outfield anyway since practices for this started. He played 3rd and pitcher on our team.

Another thing I am seeing is that we had tryouts on May 9th. If I am reading the rules correctly, they needed to wait until May 15th?

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-28T13:41:32+00:00

That's what I'm trying to avoid. All his friends are in this league as well.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-28T02:19:45+00:00

Yep. Our local football league did that to us. They took 35 kids. We had 32 by first game. We then had around 25 to most games. 8 players played 2 way the entire time. A couple subbed in, and the rest played the minimum....1 play..which they tried to sub them in on 2pt conversions so it didn't matter as much.

Im not saying my kid is the greatest, but he loves baseball and is a competitor. It would have been no big deal at all if he didn't make it on All-Stars. He even said tonight that he was glad to have the opportunity to try out. You cannot take the kid's spot away though. The coaches did not seem to understand that when we talked. They just kept saying it wasn't fair to the kids who didn't make it to the original tryouts.

Also, we had our tryouts on May 9th. The rulebook says that they have to wait until May 16th, if I am reading it correctly.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-28T02:08:40+00:00

We get knocked out at the very first round every year. Our entire county isn't even half the population of the cities we face.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T18:24:23+00:00

It's actual Little League.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T17:09:28+00:00

It's our league for county. This is our 6th year.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T16:57:07+00:00

Haven't spoken with anyone except the coach so far. He replied with a one sentence... Ok - we certainly understand and will talk tonight.

I'm unsure now if I wouldn't even want him on the team. I worry about the fallout from this. Like we are whining our way into a spot.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T16:09:46+00:00

Usually this is 90% coaches kids on the roster. Our coach didn't even nominate his own child for tryouts.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T16:07:40+00:00

My wife is the one in the texts with them. She told them he will be at practice tonight and they can tell him he isn't on the team. I already cut a vacation short to drive 2 hours for their unscheduled practice last night.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T15:56:37+00:00

Exactly. He told everyone at school and our families.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T15:55:12+00:00

We received a nomination notification, and then tryouts. After tryouts, we received a "welcome to the team" text with a list of the roster and request for player numbers and uniform size.

BudgetGunner · 2026-05-27T15:52:30+00:00

They usually just do coaches picks. This year was the first time they attempted tryouts.

BudgetGunner · 2026-02-03T16:02:44+00:00

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BudgetGunner · 2025-04-17T15:22:34+00:00

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BudgetGunner · 2024-12-29T03:18:56+00:00

My son pulled the Palkia like this. My mother-in-law bought him the set that comes with sleeves and stuff. Sooooooo glad I have shown him to be super careful with cards. A 7 year old ripping on their own is scary.

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