Daddy Ball

About Daddy Ball

If you or your kid loves baseball this podcast is for you. It includes tons of good info for parents interested having their kids play baseball at any level, from little Tee-ballers to high school scout teams. The guests run travel ball organizations, baseball leagues (PONY, Little League, Cal Ripken), are umpires; and, have had experience coaching kids sports, specifically baseball for the most part, and played sports themselves as kids, in high school, college and even professionally at the top levels. Alan's two boys started in Little League, 2012, and since have played PONY, and travel ball. Alan began and ran a highly competitive organization in the South Bay of Los Angeles (Torrance based) with teams ranging from 8U to 13U. He now enjoys helping out as a parent and watching his boys play baseball and his daughters ballet and dance performances. We want to let you know, from a variety of voices and experiences, what to expect when you sign up for baseball: the costs, the atmosphere, amount of time you will need to dedicate, and much more that goes into your family and children's sports experience. The various guests include tips and life experiences that may keep you out of some pit-falls that you could get in. Enjoy the show and please pass it on!

Publisher

Alan Glasband

Category

kids & family · sports · sports

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Jul 2023

Latest episode

28 Jun 2024

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jun 2024

   Daddy Ball with Umpire William Macareno

   Umpire and Iraq War veteran (Army) talks about his life experience as an umpire and a fan of baseball. He has worked high school, college, rec ball (little league and PONY), as well as a ton of travel ball (NCS, PG, Triple Crown and more). He covers some of the details that go into being an umpire physically, the difficulties that come with the job and some of his favorite moments as an umpire. Will shares about the relationships that he has formed with coaches, he mentions Pac Gutierre...

2. 

   27 Nov 2023

   Daddy Ball with "The Demp"

   This episode is one of my son's first coaches he had other than me. Mikey Dempster, AKA The Demp, coached him at the PONY League Pinto Division on the TABB Dodgers. They didn't lose a game all year and it was a new experience for our family to be in PONY, as opposed to Little League. We followed The Demp into "travel ball" (aka: club baseball) and our lives have never been the same. I get to ask Mikey his opinions on a lot of hot topic questions for parents today regarding travel ball, P...

3. 

   11 Jul 2023

   Daddy Ball with Martin Padilla, OC Titans 12U Coach/Owner

   Martin Padilla brings a unique perspective to our show about a dad running a one team travel organization. He gives us his opinion about a variety of subjects related to youth baseball and shares experiences with us from having run this organization since 2019 and having helped an older child through it before this with another organization. There is useful info about Cooperstown All Star Village and some of the logistics to getting into that with a team, as well as some of t...

4. 

   1 Jul 2023

   Scott Champagne, South Bay PONY baseball league president

   We start off with some personal background on the guest, Scott Champagne, how he got into sports, and his favorite sports. We get into the differences between Little League and PONY ball, what age is best for kids to start baseball leagues, the costs and best ideas for saving money, what size glove, how to coach and best practices for kids who want to improve and play at a high level. We cover a lot of suggestions for parent behavior, what they should expect, and how to encourage your child w...