Shades Mountain Park Information

SMP offers both Spring (typically beginning in March and ending before Memorial Day) and Fall (September and October) baseball seasons. There are also tournament/extended play opportunities after the Spring season through Metro Sports Baseball and throughout the year via USSSA. In the Spring SMP provides a uniform (hat, socks and jersey) for each player and team equipment consisting of catching equipment and "heart guard" protectors (for T-ball and Machine pitch players). In the Fall SMP provides a jersey only. Gloves, bats, pants, and other equipment are the responsibility of the player. SMP has a bat restriction rule posted elsewhere on this site. Regarding time commitment, generally in our younger leagues (9 YO American and younger) there are two practices a week from draft till season begins, then one practice per week, and typically once games begin each team plays twice per week, usually a week night and a Saturday. Rainouts change everything of course, but we try to avoid playing on Wednesday and Sundays in Spring so as to not conflict with church activities. Our age group cutoff date is April 30th of each year. Leagues are (league commissioner is listed):T-ball - 4 year olds play on Field #7. 5 year olds play on Field #8 - This league is for 4 and 5 year olds and is designed to be instructional and developmental only. Games are not formally structured. Score is not kept in T-ball.