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

• Session A June 21- July 2 (See 1st Session Discounts)

• Session B July 5- July 9 (Day and Overnight 1 week)

• Session C July 12- July 23

• Session D July 26 - August 6

• Session E August 9 - August 13 (One week only)

Ted Williams / Steve Ferroli Instructional Baseball will be running an instructional girl’s softball summer day camp session for girls ages 13 -16. The baseball camp with over 20 years of operation, located at the Hanson Athletic Association on Reed Street in Hanson, has been asked by several parents over the past year to consider designing a girl’s softball instructional program. The program will run Monday through Friday from 8:30 am - 4:00 pm daily. The session will run for one week only from July 6 -10. Players will develop skills in hitting, base running, fielding and throwing while also learning situational game play. Players will play one game daily. The program will also feature a specialty section on pitching which will be optional for an additional cost.

The cost of the program is $190 with the pitching program an additional $35. The program needs a minimum of 20 girls to operate. Group rates and family rates are available. For more information please call 781 293-2700, Visit our website at: www.SteveFerroliBaseball.com or email us at: TedWilliamsLeague@yahoo.com. To register; please fill out the form below and send payments or a $50 deposit to Steve Ferroli Baseball, PO Box 1127, Pembroke, MA 02359. Payments in full before July 6 deduct $10 dollars!!!! Reg. Forms can be down loaded from our website! Click on Girls Softball Camp for more information. General information sheet mailed to you after registration.

]]> http://tedwilliamscamp.com/2009/06/girls-softball-day-camp/feed/ http://tedwilliamscamp.com/2009/06/summer-day-camp-costs/ http://tedwilliamscamp.com/2009/06/summer-day-camp-costs/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:43:08 +0000 Steve Ferroli http://tedwilliamscamp.com/?p=27 Day Camper Full Session $380
Day Camper 1 Week $225

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
1st Week Session A $190
Full Session, Session A $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’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.