Online registration for the 2010 PSSBL baseball season is now available.  Click here to Register Now. If you're a returning player, log in using your email address and password and follow the prompts.  New players can set up an account and register for the draft (see article below on the 2010 Tryouts) or join a team as a pre-approved "buddy pick".

Returning players need to pay their dues in full before April 1, 2010 or they will be charged the higher New Player rate.

Make sure to tell your friends and acquaintances about the league tryout March 27th at Bellevue Community College.  The league-wide PSSBL draft will be April 3rd.

As you register for your 2010 team(s), you will also be invited to volunteer for the Taxi Pool.  There is no extra charge to be on the Taxi Pool list if you are a paid, Active member of the PSSBL, and you'll be providing a service to the league.

If you have questions, concerns, or other issues regarding registration, please contact support@pssbl.com.

Have a great 2010 baseball season!

Despite heavy rain earlier in the week, the Puget Sound Senior Baseball League conducted a second successful tryout on Saturday, March 13th.  The PSSBL has one remaining open tryout date for all players age 21 & over for the 2010 season.  The tryout will be held on Saturday March 27th at Bellevue Community College.  Players age 21+ should report for the 9am sessions.  Players age 35+ should report for the 12-noon sessions.

   PSSBL Player Agent Scott Dillinger Instructs Some Tryout Players on Infield Drills

Attendance at all PSSBL tryout sessions is free of charge.  Online registration will be available before the tryout, but if you are a tryout player and cannot register early, please arrive at least 30-minutes prior to the start of the tryout session to register and sign a waiver form.  Bellevue Community College is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE in Bellevue.   A league-wide draft will be held Saturday, April 3, 2010.  For more information, contact Player Agent Scott Dillinger at dill8015@yahoo.com or President Tom Evans Krause at te519@comcast.net.  In case of inclement weather, call the PSSBL Rainout Line for updates at 425-644-1901. 

The Puget Sound Senior Baseball League had a booth at last weekend's FanFest at Safeco Field.  We spread the word about adult baseball and our involvement in the community, while the Seattle Mariners launched their promotional efforts for the 2010 season to a record crowd.  The PSSBL registered a record number of potential players at FanFest and are following up with information about this year's tryouts and draft. 

     "Siggie" mans the PSSBL booth at a previous FanFest event.

Thanks to this year's PSSBL volunteers: Stuart Chernis, John Cosfol, Paul Davison, Jeff Sibley, Jeremy Thornton, Greg Duff, Michael Kagan, Elliott Marshall, Wayne Ottum, Shad Pantle & Mic Stump.

The votes are in from the December 7th 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 2010 season:

President – Tom Evans Krause

Vice President – Stuart Chernis

Secretary – Matt Mega

Treasurer – Eric Koosmann

Player Agent – Scott Dillinger

Fields & Scheduling Director – Carl Detert

These six individuals will be joined by the commissioners of the eight divisions to form the 2010 Board of Directors.  Contact information for all board members and the 2010 meeting schedule will be distributed to all PSSBL members soon.

All eight divisions wrapped up the 2009 playoffs by September 27th, capping off a very successful 21st season.  Congratulations to the winners, runners-up, and all the PSSBL playoff teams!

Here are the final scores of the championship game in each division:

Adams Division 

Saints 13  Cobras 3

Adirondack 

Mustangs 10  Bees 8

Cascade 

Brewers 14  Orioles 9

Olympic 

Ravens 14  Tugs 3

Rocky 

Iron Pigs 10  Blue Rocks 6

Sierra 

Beavers 12  Ravens 10

Smoky 

Aqua Sox 7  Sugar Kings 6

Teton 

Silver Foxes 14  Crawfords 4

Here is the complete playoff schedule for the 2009 PSSBL Season. Please contact your division commissioner if you have any questions about the brackets.  Email Carl Detert promptly to report scores.  Good luck!

Adams Dates | Bracket
Adirondack Dates | Bracket
Cascade Dates | Bracket
Olympic Dates | Bracket
Rocky Dates | Bracket
Sierra Dates | Bracket
Smoky Dates | Bracket
Teton Dates | Bracket

The PSSBL celebrated a bang-up 4th of July holiday weekend with divisional All Star Games and a Home Run Derby.  Seven different All Star games were played, including a "grudge match" between the Adams and Rocky Divisions.  Bellevue Community College and the University of Washington were the settings for baseball fun, sun, and cameraderie.  Congratulations again to all the All Star selections, and thanks to the division commissioners and GM's for coordinating the events.  If you have photos from the weekend, feel free to post them to the PSSBL Group at Facebook. 

For the first time we held the PSSBL Home Run Derby as part of the 4th of July Weekend festivities.  The competition, which was open to all PSSBL members, took place Sunday, July 5th, at BCC.  The 21 & Over crown went to Mario Garza of the Olympic Brewers.  The 35 & Over competition was hotly contested and came down to a "sudden death" round featuring Scott Dillinger of the Cascade Orioles/Sierra Beavers, Ben Torres of the Sierra Beavers, and Tony Scaia, Sierra Dodgers.  Scaia hit a shot over the left field wall and was named 35 & Over HR Derby champion.  Thanks to all the participants including BP pitchers, catchers, and division commissioners.

Congrats to the PSSBL Home Run Derby Champs!

               2009 21+ HR Champ Mario Garza                          2009 35+ HR Champ Tony Scaia

The 2009 PSSBL Draft at Sport Restaurant & Bar in Seattle is now complete. 

Here is how the April 4th draft played out - by divisions:

12-Noon-12:30pm = Smoky Results

12:30pm-1:30pm = Sierra Results

1:30pm-2:30pm = Cascade Results

2:30pm-3:30pm = Olympic Results

3:30pm-4:30pm = Adams Results

4:30pm-5:30pm = Adirondack

5:30pm-6:30pm = Teton Results

6:30pm-7:30pm = Rocky Results

92.5% of the paid, eligible draft players were selected by our teams for the 2009 season.  Those players who were not selected are offered an opportunity to join the PSSBL Taxi Pool.  All non-selected players should have been credited with a refund by now. 

You can view the complete list of registered Tryout Players here: http://www.pssbl.com/viewdraftplayers.aspx.  Those selected are lined out.

All new information for the 2009 season is posted.  To navigate to the info, please follow this link: http://www.pssbl.com/league/information.aspx.  Registration for the 2009 season will begin very soon.  If you have questions about registration or the upcoming tryouts, please contact PSSBL President Tom Evans Krause or PSSBL Player Agent Scott Dillinger.  Contact info for Tom and Scott is included within the body of the League Information page.  We're looking forward to seeing you on the field, playing in one of the nation's premier adult sports leagues - the PSSBL - in 2009.

All eight divisions wrapped up the 2008 playoffs by September 24th, capping off our very successful 20th Anniversary Season.  Congratulations to the winners, runners-up, and all the PSSBL playoff teams!

Here are the final scores of the championship game in each division:

Adams Division 

Saints 10  Cobras 6

Adirondack 

Generals 25  Osprey 9

Cascade 

Orioles 13  Dodgers 0

Olympic 

Tugs 13  Mariners 4

Rocky 

Blue Rocks 5  Iron Pigs 0

Sierra 

Mariners 7  Ravens 5

Smoky 

Aqua Sox 6  Sugar Kings 2

Teton 

Silver Foxes 12  Crawfords 9

 It was another great "Day At The Show"!  For the third consecutive year, players from the PSSBL participated in exhibition games at Safeco Field and enjoyed a major league experience for a day.  Nearly 60 players, representing every one of our eight divisions, took part in an exhilarating experience while raising money for the local chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.  Several courageous Make-A-Wish kids, battling life-threatening afflictions, came out to throw ceremonial first pitches.   A lot of money was raised for Make-A-Wish, which means another 2 to 3 kids will have their wishes granted.  We'll publish the exact total in a future post.

In addition to acknowledging the players who paid a premium fee to participate, special thanks go out  to KOMO 1000 Newsradio, Parker Staffing Services. the Seattle Mariners, Safeco Field, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Edmonds Printing, A Cappella Joy, Rob Kendrick, Steven Sterne Photography, PSUA, NBUA, Tom Layson, Brian Rogers, Scott Dillinger, Greg Duff, and John Cosfol. 

 PSSBL ALL-Stars  8   Everett Merchants  7

It was a beautiful night for baseball Saturday, June 28th, at Everett Memorial Stadium.  A PSSBL All Star team was invited to play the Everett Merchants in a benefit baseball game hosted by Veterans of Chapter XVI Society of the 173rd Airborne, Chapter 16 US Special Forces Association, and ARVN 81st Airborne Rangers.

The PSSBL team took an early 6-2 lead, but the Merchants battled back to tie the game 6-6 in the 8th.  The All-Stars scored two in the top of the 9th and held on to win, surrending one run to the Merchants in the bottom of the frame.

                                                          PSSBL All Stars

The real winner Saturday night was the Montagnard Children's Programs.  Money raised for the event will be delivered to children at the Leper Colony in Kon Tum, Viet Nam as well as assistance to TeeBall Vietnam.  The tee ball program includes construction of a certified little league ball field.

Earlier in the day, there was an excellent free youth baseball clinic for boys and girls ages 7 to 12 taught be Everett Merchant Players and Coaches.

I've added a second blog to the PSSBL site, which, from now on, will be the only place you'll see updates on new site features. From now on, the home page blog will be maintained by Tom Krause and the rest of the board for important league news. Of note, I've added a team batting page per division, you can see an example here. In order to see the site updates blog, you can click on the "Recent Updates" link at the bottom of any page, or go to Community->Blogs. Of course, you can also click here.

I've updated the schedule page to now show the games scheduled for today by default. You can see the set of games here. Additionally, I've made some minor modifications to the menu bar that should make it a little easier to browse around; Now, you click on the section you want to go to, and additional links show up in the sub menu bar. I still have lots of little updates to make in the next few days, but I think we're starting to see some stabilization. And it seems the forums are starting to pick up some steam. Have a great day, and maybe get out and watch one of our two weeknight games tonight. 

We're having some problems with the new update. Please have patience while we work through them, I expect the problems to be resolved some time this evening.

Update 12:38 AM: I think I've got most of the new home page updated and working. There are still some broken links, and some other small bugs outstanding, but most of the major issues should be fixed. There may be issues I'm unaware of, so if you see any odd behavior, please post the problem with the details in our support forums. With the new updates, there is a blog on the PSSBL homepage, and the forums are back! You need to be logged in to use the forums (this will keep down spam), but otherwise, feel free to make use of them. In the near future we'll be adding lots of new stuff including private forums/email lists per team.