Objectives & Aims

The NTBA exists to: 1. Promote minor amateur house league baseball within its boundaries. 2. Assist in the development of its players and coaches of the mental and physical skills of baseball, including having fun, equal participation, fairness, good sportmanship and respect for authority and each other.

A History

NTBA in its present form was founded by Tim Arnaud, a resident of North Toronto. In 1986 Tim was looking for an alternative baseball programme for his sons, who were placed on a waiting list for a Leaside league. He went to the North Toronto Arena in Eglinton Park and and asked some players if they would be interested in playing baseball. Tim says, as soon as their hands shot up, their parents ran for the door because they knew the next question would be for parent volunteers to run it!

Tim called the Parks & Recreation Department of the City of Toronto who were looking for ways to improve their summer programme at Eglinton Park. Tim got permits to several diamonds. That summer there were 10 teams of 14 Mosquito players. The second year there were 250 players and by the third there were 450 players of varying ages. Tim also initiated the Allstar programme which provided tournament experience to our players across Ontario.

As our organization grew th administrative work became heavier and more complex and the assistance of Mr Ben Daube as registrar and overall manager was critical over the next few years to solidify the organization.

Soon our numbers and the programmes we were putting on outgrew the ability of one person to manage it all, and we incorporated as a not-for-profit-corporation and divided the responsibilities amongst a Board of Directors and Registrar.

Since inception we have established Spring and Full House League divisions and Allstars, with enrollment of about 1000 players. .

We train and employ carded Baseball Ontario umpires for our games, most of whom are drawn from our player pool, and of course the backbone of our organization is our volunteer coaches, convenors and board members, without whom we would not exist.

We work towards improving every aspect of our programme from facilities to coaching and look forward to providing many more years of the youth baseball exerience in an environment that promotes good sportsmanship, teamwork, intelligence and fun.

Affiliations NTBA is affiliated with the Metropolitan Toronto Baseball Association (MTBA) which is in turn governed by the Ontario Baseball Association (Baseball Ontario).