Belmont-Redwood Shores Little League

BELMONT REDWOOD SHORES LITTLE LEAGUE P.O. Box #1 Belmont, CA 94002 Federal Tax ID #94-6107541 [email protected] (General Inquiries) [email protected] (Registration Inquiries) FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook Instagram Threads Facebook Parent Group YouTube - Under Construction! HISTORY First year of play: 1957 or 1958 First District Championship: 1986 First Sectional and State Championship: 2013 Number of Majors D52 Titles: 4 (1986, 2000, 2013, 2016) Other Titles: 9/10 (1997, 2011), 10/11 (2012, 2016), Big League 16-18 (1981, 1982, 1984?, 1985) Early Years They say baseball has been played in Belmont since 1895, when teams were fielded by the Belmont School for Boys, and certainly various league came and went in those early days when games were played on a field on Old County Road. Little League was founded in 1939 in Williamsport, PA, and grew rapidly every year. By the time the first league was founded outside of the US in 1951, there were already 775 Little Leagues across the country. In 1957, Little League set it sights on California, what was to become it’s biggest state. Little League divided California into 33 districts numbered from North to South and a host of new leagues were born. Belmont was one of those original leagues and started play in 1958 as part of District 11. After just 5 years of play, Belmont Little League comprised 14 teams and a total of 210 players age 12 and under. In 1966 District 11 split, and the new District 52 was formed, where we continue to play today. The following year the old Marina field was constructed. This was to be Belmont Little Leagues primary home for over 20 years. It was a classic “sunken diamond” design, and was in approximately the same location as it’s name-sake where we play today. (The home plate from this field is on display in the Snack Shack.) There were no other fields around at the time - only garbage from the neighboring Belmont garbage dump. At this time, the league had grown to be comprised of two divisions. Kids 9-12 competed to play in Majors, and those who didn’t make the cut played in Minors. By 1978, we were regularly fielding 8 Majors teams, and a growing number of Minors teams split into AAA and AA divisions. The schedule played would be familiar today. The Majors teams played two games a week at the old Marina field. The Minors teams were playing on fields at Nesbit and McDougal and later IHM, Cipriani, Central and Ralston. From 1981 to 1983 a “A” division for T-ball was played. The league was reorganized in 1984 into fewer larger divisions: an 8 team Majors, a 9 team Minors and a expanded 12 team Farm division. This was refined over several years with Majors playing at the old Marina, Minors at IHM and Farm up at Ralston. Belmont Sports Complex and Recent Growth 1990 saw the opening of the new Belmont Sports Complex (then called “Island Park”) and the new Marina field on which we still play today. That year saw us hold the Distrct 52 and Sectional tournaments for the first tim