“I don’t know much about baseball, but I know my son improved and loved the program. The cabins were brand new, the food was good, and the staff is into it. Great program.”

“I’m 15 and wanted to stay at a camp. My dad and I looked at a few programs but none had Steve Ferroli’s credentials. I learned a lot and had a lot of fun.”

• Session A June 27 – July 8 (See Specials)

• Session B July 11 – July 22

• Session C July 25 – August 5 (Overnight July 25 – July 29)

• Session D August 8 – August 19

Rug Rat Camper Full Session $200
Rug Rat Camper One Week $100

Family Discounts (Full Sessions Only)
Two Full Day Campers $665
Three Full Day Campers $915
Two Rug Rat Campers $350
Three Rug Rat Campers $450
One Full Day & One Rug Rat $505

Returning Camper Same Summer
Full Session Only $315
Returning Rug Rat $150

Specials
Session A (first week) $190
Session A (two weeks) $360

Overnight Camp Costs
One Week $500
Two Campers One Week $950

All TWL Spring Players please deduct 10%.

All day campers require a non refundable $50 deposit.

All overnight campers require a non refundable $100 deposit.

I’m 8 years old on the streets of Boston throwing balls up and down the hot summer asphalt with my older brother Rick.  We used to play in the school yards and a place called the Blakey.  Which was a patch of grass big enough for little kids to play pick up baseball.  It featured (and still does) a statue of William Blake from Dorchester, Massachusetts who fought bravely in the Cival War.  William Blake later was very helpful and admired in politics.

I didn’t like baseball that much then it was too slow.  I would much rather climb stuff and ride my bike.  But Rick liked it and was always recruiting me for games with his friends.  To make along story short I went to Sears & Roebuck with my parents who were shopping.  Rick and I went off to the sporting goods department and started looking at stuff to kill time.  I remember seeing Ted’s signature on everything bats, gloves, balls, tents, weights, fishing stuff and hunting stuff too.  I remember asking my brother who Ted Williams was?  I had no idea who Ted Williams was!  Ted Williams was completely off my radar.

Rick’s response (though I can not remember it exactly) was that I was stupid and that I smell.   (This was Rick’s response to most my questions.)

Today I have a saying… there is life in what you don’t know.

by Steve Ferroli

I’ve been talking about this guy for fifteen years! Still, he doesn’t get the attention he deserves because he didn’t play baseball professionally. It’s really not fair. The way I see it, hitting a baseball and teaching someone to hit a baseball are two different things. And I’ll tell you what – Steve Ferroli can teach it every bit as good as I could hit it!

I took the game of baseball quite seriously and looking back I guess I did alright. But when age started kicking me in the pants, I got to thinking more and more about kids – kids and baseball. I began to think about coaching and how important quality coaching is. Then I thought boy, who out there is going to be able to talk hitting and get it right? Who has the knowledge to answer the big league questions and the heart to put it on the line for the kids? I was describing Steve Ferroli.

How good is he, you may ask? Well, I’ll give you some numbers…There are millions of kids between the ages of 8-12 years old playing baseball all around the world. They have been playing in organized youth leagues in our country since 1939. But they have been playing a game that is out of scale considering their size and age. Some of the dimensions were simply not scaled down correctly to account for the smaller bodies of these players. As a result, the game is affected – the fun, the interest! When you read Chapter Nine of this book, The Ted Williams League, consider how many hundreds of thousands of coaches, umpires and parents have had this mistake right under their noses but couldn’t see it. For over a half a century no one saw it – except Steve Ferroli.

It is my sincere hope that he stays in baseball and teaches hitting forever. That’s because among all the players, coaches, students, teachers, professors… anybody with whom I’ve ever talked hitting, Steve Ferroli knows more about my principles of hitting than anyone I’ve ever known.