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2008 Season - Our 58^th year

The purpose of the Deerfield Youth Baseball and Softball Association shall be to help promote and maintain high moral character as well as good mental and physical health in the young people involved in the baseball and softball programs.  This objective will be attained by providing supervised athletic games.  The supervisors shall bear in mind at all times that the attainments of exceptional athletic skill or winning of games is secondary to the objective herein.

New NEWS added on Sunday, July 20 - Click or Scroll Down to see it.

"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America
had better learn baseball,
the rules and realities of the game."
--Jacques Barzun, French-American Historian

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DYBA Thanks our generous sponsors. We hope you'll support them.

Active Disposal  -  Alphagraphics  -  Back and Body Health Center - Bizar Entertainment  -  Brian Silberman's Baseball Camp  -  Centrust Bank -  Collaborate Design  -  Cooker's Red Hots  -  Danley's Garage World  -  Deerfield Tire Company  -  Dicks Sporting Goods  -  The Dog OUT  -  Downsview Capital  -  Doyle Opticians  -  Forest Glen Construction  -  Gerber Collision & Glass  -  Scott Goldstein Northwestern Mutual  -  Greenview  - Grins Sportspage  -  Grooms Insurance  -  Howard Packaging  -  Hyatt Deerfield  -  Il Forno Pizza & Pasta  -  Italian Kitchen  -  JHG Benefits  -  Joy of the Game Baseball & Softball Academy  -  Frank L. Karkazis, DDS & Assoc  -  Kelsey & Jo Orthodontics  -  Kerstein Trading  -  Kessler, Orlean, Silver CPAs  -  Kevin's Place  -  Kogen Insurance Agency  -  Lane & Lane  -  McDonalds of Deerfield  -  Mesirow Financial  -  Midway Moving & Storage  -   Northside Community Bank  -  OptionsXpress  -  Paint Jar  -  Piero's Pizza  -  Rhapsody Café  -  Sciarretta Enterprises Inc  -  SF Investments  -  Silver, Lerner, Schwartz & Fertel  -  Starbucks  -  Steinberg Advisors CPAs  -  Swansons Blossom Shop  -  Team Sport Pro  -  Trax Restaurant  -  TSMGI  -  Turim Allstate  -  Upper Crust Bagels  -  Veterinary Specialty Center

DYBA News

• DYBA Board Meeting, Mon, Jul 21 at 8:00 pm at Jewett
  Click Calendar to see details

• DYBA Congratulates our 2008 College Scholarship Winners
  Zach Fine
  Lindsay Januszewski
  Brett Mandel
  Alex Parmacek

• New DYBA Rulebook is available online.
  Click Rules to download it.

• Read the "State of DYBA" as it enters its 58th Season
  Click HERE to read it.

• DYBA Welcomes Its New Board Members
  Click Board to see details

• Read Commissioner's Notes for the New Year
  Click HERE to read them.

• New rules for allowable bats in Pony Baseball
  Click HERE to read them.

• DYBA Fiscal Year 2005 Final Audit  Report.
  Click HERE to see it.

• Read hints on how to be a better Manager or Coach
  Click Managers to see it

• DYBA Adopts Protection of Pitchers Guidelines
  Click Baseball to learn about the new guidelines.

• DYBA Policy on Conflicts of Interest.
  Click Forms to download the policy.

• Confused about DYBA Lightning Rules and Procedures?
  Click HERE to read about them.

• Umpires: You can download and customize your pay slips
  Click to download PDF or WORD format.

• Satellite Photo matches the Map of DYBA Fields.  Can you see all of our fields from space?
  Click on Fields to see.

• Umpire Training Program for Boys & Girls Ages 12-13.
  Learn to become an excellent umpire and become a Certified DYBA Umpire.
  Click on Umpires to learn more.

• All adult volunteers are required to fill out a form that is used for a background check with the Illinois State Police.  This form must be submitted to the DYBA Board before an adult can be a manager or coach of a DYBA team.
  Click on Forms  to download this form.

• Do you think you really know Baseball and Softball Rules?
  Click on Rules to test your knowledge with the Rules Quiz questions.

• Read about the history of women in baseball and softball.
  Click on Softball for more information.

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What makes baseball and softball the American national games?  It goes beyond their popularity.  Here are a few reasons that various scholars have suggested:

Let us go forth a while,
And get better air in our lungs.
Let us leave our close rooms.
The game of [base]ball is glorious!
--Walt Whitman, Poet

"Well -- it's our game; that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game; it has snap, go, fling of the American atmosphere; it belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly as our Constitution's laws; is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
--Walt Whitman, Poet

"I enjoy the game... principally because it makes me feel American.  And I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.  They're the three most beautifully designed things this culture has ever produced."
--Gerald Early, English Professor

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