Five-Star Rated Travel Ball Team

• Age Groups and Divisions: We offer travel baseball programs for students in elementary school through high school. We provide suitable age divisions so that participants face off against competitors of similar levels.

• Select Team:

  • • 9U
    • 10U

    • 11U

    • 12U

    • 13U
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• Too old for 13U? Play Town Business

This summer, FSB will offer travel ball programming for 9U–13U players, with the season running from June 1st – August 2nd. Younger players may also sign up, but must contact Ben Mangan directly at (510) 710-0987 to schedule a tryout. Each age group will operate within a development-focused structure, with all players participating in a mix of double headers, tournaments, and intrasquad games, based on the overall skill level, readiness, and progression of the group. Our goal is to provide consistent reps, competitive opportunities, and the right level of challenge for each athlete while continuing to build toward higher levels of play across all age groups.

We have a tremendous coaching staff. This is our 10th year of travel ball and we have fantastic coaches. All of our regular coaches have years of experience at both the travel ball and high school level. We will develop your player. There isn’t space in this email to go over all the coaches and their merits. If you are in the baseball community just ask around. Our staff is as strong as can be.

We are a player first organization. We are flexible to let players play other sports and let players play with older kids if they are ready. Many organizations don’t let players play up but we always do what is best for the kid.

Communication. This fall we have a travel ball director that this is his only job. AJ Johnson will be taking over and handle all travel ball direction as well as being at at least one practice for all the players so he will know all the kids in the program. Ben Mangan has been doing the admin with some assistance but as FSB has grown to the point we’re now ready to have a full time director to make sure everything goes smoothly.

The love of the game. FSB is a huge family. We create a love of the game because we know that baseball is supposed to be fun. The culture of FSB keeps kids engaged and almost all of our players continue to play baseball in High school and many play in college.

As we move into the summer, we are actively working on restructuring the FSB program to best fit the needs of our families.

Our goal is to create a system that clearly separates and supports players who want to develop skills and play more baseball, those who want to compete in a structured travel ball environment against strong competition, and those who have the experience and commitment to compete with and against the best in the region.

This structure will allow every athlete to train and compete at the level that best fits their goals, while also creating a clear pathway for growth within the program.

The summer season will run from June 1st – August 2nd, and we will potentially start fall early this year. We will be sending a detailed email soon with registration links and a full breakdown of each age group, including the exact format and expectations for the season. As we continue working out the final structure before registration opens, here is the current practice schedule for each age group. 

TRYOUTS:

To register for the tryout, there will be two steps needed by participants.

1)      Register through TeamSnap by using this link: https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/492918

2)      Pick a day to attend try outs on this form using this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1adurgNCLwoZCDRxVaGxuIOIrBP_F7hjfpAsuPD_ceW8/edit?gid=0#gid=0

For try outs this year, Coach Ben will be hosting them at the Future Star Baseball Batting Cages starting on Monday 8/4 and will continue over the next two weeks.

You can pick a day that works for you and enter it into the spread sheet.

Use this link for directions to the cages:

https://futurestarbaseball.com/about-us/

This Summer FSB will be running 9u, 10u, 11u, 12u, and 13u teams.

Younger players may try out for older teams.

Each team will have two practices a week. One at the FSB batting cages in the Oakland Hills and one practice at the College of Alameda. (Up to 4 coaches scheduled at every practice)

The travel ball new year is in August so all teams will age up. If you were 10u for the summer than your player is an 11u for the fall, etc.

All practice squad players on the summer 10u team get an automatic spot on the new 10u team (aged up) if they are 10u’s in age. If your son was playing up they can decide what team they want to play on.

Please register by 8/1. If that is tough financially, with only two weeks before the deadline but you want to play, reach out and we can set up a payment plan.

It will be $600 for the team fee and $135 for every tournament a player plays in and $35 for local games.

The cost is $500 to be on the practice squad and half that if you only want to do one day of practice a week. Practice squad players just practice and don’t play in games unless we don’t have enough players. Players must try out for the practice squad to ensure everyone is at the right level and practice runs efficiently.