Brownwood Youth Baseball Association affiliates with Little League!

During the Brownwood Youth Baseball Association meeting on Jan. 15, the board voted to make Brownwood an official member of Little League, the international youth baseball organization whose season culminates each summer with the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Robert Anders, City of Brownwood Sports and Events coordinator and member of the board, said of the move, “We’ve been with TTAB for as long as I can remember and after last year’s tournaments our board met and did a recap of the year and had some discussions. We talked about if we were happy with the way TTAB was going and we had some yeses and had some nos. There were other entities like Little League that reached out trying to persuade us to go a different route. When we met as board we came to a decision to pursue a new charter and see what it would look like if we changed over.”

As for the level of competition, Anders said, “With our previous association we would play here in Brownwood and play other teams from other areas that had one or two teams in the whole town, and the talent was super saturated on those teams, where it was spread out on our teams. When our top teams played their teams they would have multiple elite players on those teams and we’d just have a couple because of how the draft went. With Little League, it’s more spread out, we have an opportunity for our players to play not only in district and state tournaments, but regional tournaments and one division has a chance to go all the way to the World Series in Williamsport. That was attractive to us because we feel like Brownwood has a large pool of talent baseball-wise and in other sports, and it’s great to show that off to the state and hopefully to the whole world.”