The 2008 season is fast coming to an end and we hope you've had as much fun playing as we've had photographing the action!
Click on the this link to browse some of action in TOLL that we've captured so far in 2008
If your team has not been covered or if you are interested in action photos of your team during the play-offs contact us to get your team scheduled. Please don't delay in contacting us as time slots are getting filled.
Here are links to the fliers with pricing and coverage option details:
All that needs to be done is for you to let me know that you or your team is interested in action photos and include a list of players by jersey number who are to be covered, or choose one of the packages if the whole team is to be photographed.
Please contact us soon so that I can place your team on the schedule.
The team coverage package has been very popular since the clients will receive all their original high resolution images on a CD to Email or make as many prints as they want! Here's an example of the 16"X20" coach's gift montage that is offered in the team coverage + Montage package. Additional posters are $40 each.
I also offer individual coverage and custom posters to anyone whose player has been photographed.
Action photo montages make great Coaches, Team Mom and Father's Day gifts, birthdays... you name it!
You can see some examples of other custom montages HERE.
Please contact me if you have any other questions.
I hope you'll have an exciting and fun season of baseball!
Thanks for your business and all the nice comments.
Remember that a portion of the sales is donated back to help support your league.
Turn it up!
The game eliminates us all...
Some day, some time, it will happen. Our last day as a player or as a coach. It happens to all of us…and it’s ok. You can bet even the likes of Cal Ripken, Jr. had that haunting feeling.
My reason for writing on this topic is simply that I feel that many young budding stars quit before they should, and some may even regret it later!
We all know some player, sometime in our past, who really had talent … then just stopped playing the game. We also don’t know which player, who maybe wasn’t so good, but might have really blossomed, if only he would have played one more season. Remember, the best 7 year old player doesn’t necessarily become the best 13 year old player.
Maybe a less-talented 7 year old grows and figures out some of the tips below and avoids some of the pitfalls as well. Keep reading and you might see some avoidable problems and not leave these kids to chance, luck or fate.
Let’s first take a brief look as to why some players leave the game prematurely and maybe we can help just one more good player give it just one more try and stay in the game just long enough to realize the confidence & potential that he might have missed.
The CytRX 2008 Strike Out Lou Gehrig's Disease All Star Youth Baseball Tournament
The Forth Annual Strike Out Lou Gehrig's Disease All Star Tournament is set for July17-20th, 2008 and this year it will be bigger and better than ever! With many teams participating from southern and central California, the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the ALS Association, Thousand Oaks Little League and the Conejo Valley Little League will give them a tournament they will never forget. Website Link
John Short joined the league in 1996 as a TBALL coach.
He has been a TBALL, ACORN, MINOR and Major Coach in addition to holding various Board of Directors positions over the past 12 years.
John has been TBALL VP, Sponsorship Chair, and Player Agent prior to becoming the President of the league.
2008 marks John's 7th year as President of Thousand Oaks Little League.
As the season winds down, it is with mixed emotions that I write this letter. We have all heard the phrase "my how time fly's. This is appropriate for yet another successful season at Thousand Oaks Little League.
In celebration of 40 years of baseball, our league will be providing each family with a very special year book filled with many memories of our little league families. Please take time to enjoy and share in the laughter and joy that our league has brought to many families this year.
Thousand Oaks Little League is also proud to announce we will be hosting two very exciting tournaments this summer. The first will be the 12 Year old All Star tournament starting the end of June. In addition we will be Co-Hosting the ALS tournament July 17-20th.
TOLL is proud of providing 40 years of Championship Baseball to our great community. We are equally as proud that you have chosen our league to provide your family the ultimate baseball experience.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, thanks for choosing Thousand Oaks Little League as your source of America's Favorite Pastime.
See you at the fields….
Your friend and biggest fan,
John Short III
President
Thousand Oaks Little League
"Home of the 2006 Big League World Series Champions"
Although the team finished with 12 wins and one loss, falling one game short of the World Series Final, it was undefeated in Southern California and undefeated in the Western Regional tournament.
In addition, the team finished undefeated in World Series Pool Play, and outscored its opponents 109 to 27 in 13 games.
Spring is just around the corner and once again, Thousand Oaks Little League (TOLL) is gearing up for
another successful year.
TOLL is open to all boys and girls, ages four to eighteen. We utilize America’s
favorite pastime to develop the hallmarks of a positive growth environment for children such as teamwork,
sportsmanship, self-esteem and confidence.
In doing so, we hope to provide today’s children with the
necessary skills to become tomorrow’s leaders.
However, we can’t do it alone. As the saying goes (and we firmly believe) “It takes a village!” For our part, the Board of Directors has once again committed itself to:
1. Subsidize league costs through corporate sponsorship to make participation an option for ALL families, regardless of their economic situation; and
2. Maintain the healthy, competitive and most importantly a FUN
environment for Little League
Baseball.
In order to help our league meet these goals, we are asking for your financial help in sponsoring a Board Sign
Just as with other community sports programs, the success of Thousand Oaks Little League is directly tied to parental involvement.
TOLL is an all-volunteer program where our kids can learn, play and compete with other youths with similar interests and is dependent on all parents participating and making a contribution toward the accomplishment of the League's goals.
Parent participation is necessary and essential to the success of the program. All parents must volunteer some time during the season. Parent participation may take many forms.
There are many volunteer opportunities available such as coaching, scorekeeping, umpiring, acting as the team parent, or helping with field preparation, maintenance and clean-up.
There are additional opportunities to volunteer by helping with one of our annual activities such as the Opening Day Ceremonies, the Golf Tournament, the Over-the-Line Tournament, or you can sponsor a team by making a monetary contribution.
When your team's coach or team parent approaches you to volunteer some of your time to the success of your team and the League, please do so enthusiastically - and keep in mind that without our parent volunteers the League could not exist.
2008 marks a milestone for "our" league. It was 40 years ago that our community, our town had the vision and dream of making this program great.
Now 40 years later and over 50 post season tournament victories including 2 World Series Championship titles we have fullfilled the dream.
One of the greatest rewards in life may very well be that of parenthood. Having the chance to watch your children grow from "demanding" infants to "demanding" teenagers may be life's greatest compensation.
Perhaps second to that honor may be the distinction of being athletic coach to your son or daughter. The problem comes when it is not just your child, but 10-or-12 other children as well.
Suddenly, there is a responsibility to many while you were struggling with parenting only one or two. Once you make the decision to coach, there is no other choice in the matter than to become something that you might not know how to be.
Spring is just around the corner and once again, Thousand Oaks Little League (TOLL) is gearing up for
another successful year.
TOLL is open to all boys and girls, ages four to eighteen. We utilize America’s
favorite pastime to develop the hallmarks of a positive growth environment for children such as teamwork,
sportsmanship, self-esteem and confidence.
In doing so, we hope to provide today’s children with the
necessary skills to become tomorrow’s leaders.
However, we can’t do it alone. As the saying goes (and we firmly believe) “It takes a village!” For our part, the Board of Directors has once again committed itself to: 