The 2013 PSSBL season is underway, and the weather was pretty good for an April opening weekend.

All 726 regular season games of the 2013 season are posted. To view your team’s schedule, go to your team page at www.pssbl.com and click on “Schedule”.

With several new fields in the mix and changes or renovations at some of our existing fields, please thoroughly review the Field Rules. For example, Eastlake High School has a newly-updated all turf field with lights.

Remember, all players who participate in any PSSBL game must be fully paid, Active players and/or eligible Taxi Pool players. Ineligible players who play in a contest will cost their team a forfeit.

If you have a question about a particular game due to threatening weather, call the Rainout Line at 425-644-1901 and press Option 2. It will be updated as needed.

Have a good, safe, and most of all FUN 2013 baseball season!

The 2013 PSSBL regular season schedule is published. As usual it takes a monumental effort to put together a 67-team, 9 division, 726-game schedule. Factors such as field quality, available days/times, spreading out a team’s schedule over four months, back-to-back dates, umpire group assignments, daylight/sunset issues, requested blackout dates, and other conflicts must be considered.

The PSSBL regular season gets underway the weekend of April 27-28. To view your schedule, go to your team page and click on “Schedule”. Special thanks to Fields & Scheduling Director Ross Price and Web Developer Ken Perkins for doing a great job of putting together the 2013 schedule. Play Ball!

The 2013 PSSBL Draft was held Saturday, March 30th, at Sport Restaurant & Bar in Seattle. You may view the player selections by clicking Draft Results and then check Draft Results by division. Thanks to all the tryout players who are now members of the non-profit PSSBL. We hope you have a fun summer in the league with your new team. Thanks to all the volunteers who helped run the tryouts, to all the GM’s and other team representatives, and to the Board members for their tireless efforts. Thanks also to Sport Restaurant for their hospitality during our draft day event.

While every effort was made to place tryout players on a PSSBL team or in a desired division, that was not always possible. Refunds will be forthcoming to the players who were not drafted, and partial refunds will be credited to players who paid for a longer season than the one for which they were actually drafted.

With 67 teams across 9 divisions and well over 1,000 players, the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League continues to be the premiere adult sports league – not only in the Puget Sound region, but one of the biggest and best in the U.S.

Online registration for the 2013 PSSBL baseball season continues for returning players and “buddy picks”. Click on the “Register for the 2013 Season” button on the front page. If you are a returning player, log in online to your account first, then proceed to register. Buddy Picks may only sign up for a specific team through an “invitation only” system. If you’re new to the league, you will set up a personal account as you register.

Thanks to members of the PSSBL Board for great work on our half-million dollar budget, keeping any dues increase to a scant $8-$10 or so. Thanks also to Web Developer Ken Perkins for preparing the online 2013 season. Contact support@pssbl.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.

Have a great 2013 baseball season!

The Puget Sound Senior Baseball League (PSSBL), one of the largest amateur adult baseball leagues in the U.S., will conduct open tryouts for all baseball players, age 19 and over, during the course of three weekends in March. The 2013 tryouts start on Sunday, March 10th, at Edmonds Community College. Players age 35 & over should attend the 9am-Noon session (check in at 8:30am). Players age 19 & over should attend the Noon-3pm session (check in at 11:30am).

Other tryout dates (age groups and times are the same as listed above):

• Saturday, March 16th – Bellevue College
• Sunday, March 24th – Edmonds Community College

Those who turn 19 any time during the 2013 calendar year – even as late as December 31, 2013 – are eligible to join the league this season.  There is no fee to try out for the PSSBL. Players may attend one, two, or all three tryout dates. Edmonds Community College is located at 20000 68th Avenue West in Lynnwood. Bellevue College is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE in Bellevue.

Directions to Edmonds Community College

Directions to Bellevue College

Complete Tryout Information

The non-profit PSSBL is comprised of over 1,000 players forming 67 teams in nine different divisions. The divisions are organized based on age and skill level, ranging from highly competitive to purely recreational. Formed in 1989, this year marks the PSSBL’s 25th season of operation. See you at the tryouts!

The votes are in from the December 3rd General Election Meeting. Thanks to all candidates for offering their time and talents to the League and thanks to all members who attended the meeting to cast their votes. Here are your PSSBL officials for the 2013 season:

President – Tom Evans Krause
Vice President – Wayne Ottum
Secretary – Adrian Brockway
Treasurer – Eric Koosmann
Player Agent – Scott Dillinger
Fields & Scheduling Director – Ross Price

These six individuals will be joined by the commissioners of the various divisions to form the 2013 Board of Directors. Contact information for all board members and the 2013 meeting schedule will be distributed to all PSSBL members soon.

Congratulations to two PSSBL-based teams who won World Series Championships this fall. The Seattle Frickin A’s defeated the San Diego Black Sox 3-1 in the final to claim the 45 & Over Wood Bat NABA title in Phoenix. In Florida, the Washington Titans went undefeated for a third straight year and won a third consecutive Roy Hobbs World Series Legends Division (55+) crown. The Titans beat the DC Classics 3-0 in the championship game.

Two other PSSBL-based teams made it all the way to the title game, but fell a bit short and wound up as runners-up. The Puget Sound Gators lost to the Arizona Angels to finish 2nd in the MSBL 35+ Central/Metal Division in Phoenix. The Washington Titans Classics Division team (60 & Over) was unable to defend their 2011 championship, losing out to a strong NorCal Giants team in the final game of the Roy Hobbs World Series.

This is another post in a series by Dr. David Kuechle on getting and staying healthy playing Baseball. It’s especially important for those of you who will be heading down to off-season tournaments.

You’ve had a long day at work, you’ve just sat in traffic for the last hour and a half and now you’ve arrived at the field and the game starts in 20 minutes. How many times has this happened to you? Baseball is such a physically demanding game with stops and starts, all out sprints and violent rotational movements – how can you prepare to play when you are stiff, tired and have only 20 minutes until game time? Most of us have been instructed over the years to go for a light jog, then come back and perform a few static hamstring stretches, maybe a calf stretch or two and then play catch. I don’t know about you, but I usually feel sluggish after this type of warm-up – it seems sometimes like it takes me three innings before I’m really ready to play. I’ve also had my share of oblique, calf and hamstrings injuries over the years. There has to be a better way – and there is. The current thinking incorporates sport-specific active stretches in an attempt not only to prevent injury, but also to enhance performance. The idea is that multiple muscle groups are activated simultaneously. This approach is called “dynamic warm-up.”

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Congratulations to the 2012 PSSBL Division Champs!

Adams Division:   Diablos  7   Mustangs  2

Adirondack Division:   "AA" Mariners  5   Timbers  4;  "A" Mustangs  15   Solar Sox  9

Cascade Division:   Brewers  15   Orioles  5

Olympic Division:  Ravens  2   Mets  0

Rocky Division:   Blue Rocks  11   Barons  10

Sierra Division:   Volcanoes  7   Black Sox  3

Smoky Division:   AquaSox  9   Rangers  6

Teton Division:   Crawfords  13   Ravens  5

The 2012 Playoffs are upon us. Dates and Brackets for all of the divisions are ready to go. GM’s, please report game results promptly, so the next bracket can be scheduled as soon as possible. Good luck – Play Ball!

• Adams
• Adirondack AA
• Adirondack A
• Cascade
• Olympic
• Rocky
• Sierra
• Smoky
• Teton