HR Derby – September 5th at Pullman Park
Double-Elimination Playoff – For Top 6 teams in tournament.

Teams that entered the Steel City Classic will also receive (not available to other teams in tourney):
One dozen D1 baseballs
Commemorative T-shirts
Five Guaranteed Games
Commemorative BWP Bat

The Steel City Classic will also be providing Championship T-shirts for the winner of the tournament.

Tiebreakers:
Record
Head to Head
Runs Against
Runs For
Coin Flip

Also take the time to place a ticket order for PNC Park’s “Steel City Classic Night” on September 4th.  Teams can check into their hotel early, and then head to PNC Park to watch the Pirates play the Cardinals in the park voted #1 by Major League Baseball Players Association.  Tickets are only $13 (a $7 discount), and includes a free knit ski cap, and entry into a raffle for an autographed baseball.  Its also Dollar Dog Night at the park, with all Hot Dogs only a $1.  Print the Promotional Flyer and mail it in with your registration today!  Teams purchasing 10 or more tickets with their registration will be eligible for a discount on their tournament entry fee as well!

In order to confirm your place ASAP and allow us to list you on our site, please also mail the following information to: Register@NABASteelCityClassic.com

Team Name:
Name:
Phone:
Email:
Mailing Address:
Division:
Check One: a) Full Team b) Partial Team c) Individual Player

PITTSBURGH, Pa – The Steel City Classic Tournament Committee has announced a special promotion with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the 2009 Steel City Classic.  The Pirates will be offering outfield box seats for $13 per ticket for Friday (September 4, 2009) night’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals at a discount to all tournament entrants.  The seats have a normal selling price of $20, which is a savings of $7 per ticket.  Friday night’s game promotion is a Pirates Knit Ski Cap (seen below), which will be presented to all fans in attendance.  Dollar Dog Night is also featured, where fans can get a hot dog for $1 each.

In addition, the Pirates also offer tours of the ballpark on that same Friday for anyone that is interested.  Why not spend an entire day exploring everything this fine city has to offer?

The Pirates will also be offering an autographed baseball to be raffled off to ticket buyers.

Please print this Promotional Flyer and mail in with your completed registration to reserve your tickets.  Orders should be placed by August 17th.

More information can be found by emailing Kyle Lefeber at the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Additionally, the opportunity for a discount on the entry may be established based upon the number of tickets that are purchased by a team.  More information will follow.

I am unsure if we are also offering plaques for individual awards.

The Pittsburgh Pirates are on board.

they are entering a team in the 18AA division.

Actually the organization is offering discounted tickets to all teams who register in time to get to the St. Louis Cardinals’ game at PNC Park on Friday at 7:05.

The Bucs-Cards game is also knit ski cap night  – all fans in attendance will receive a free knit ski cap.

We are trying to lower the entry fee as you read this.

Sign up soon, and register in time to get to the pirates game.

We will have an updated teams list by the end of the week.

More as it develops.

We are the only Labor Day amateur baseball tournament on the east coast providing the opportunity for free Pittsburgh Pirates knit ski caps.

]]> http://nabasteelcityclassic.com/steel-city-classic-2009-post-4-updat-as-of-july-29th-213am/feed/ 3 http://nabasteelcityclassic.com/free-agent-pool/ http://nabasteelcityclassic.com/free-agent-pool/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:32:42 +0000 jgraff http://nabasteelcityclassic.com/?p=119 Teams and Individuals are welcome to use this page to find players for a team, or find teams for a player.  There are a few local players who have already been contacting us looking for a team to play on, and a few teams who have contacted us that are a few players short!

If you would like to enter the tournament as a free agent, every attempt will be made to get you placed on a team in your requested division.  To expedite that process we ask that you do the following:

1) Please complete and mail in the registration below with payment ($75):

Steel City Classic Registration

2) Please add a post to this site, and teams will be able to contact you on their own!  Include the following information:

Name:
Email:
Phone:
Age on December 31st, 2009:
City, State, Zip:
Position(s):
Previous Baseball Experience:

Out of town teams who are interested as of 7/16 at 2am:

Two 18A teams from Erie’s adult league
one 35+ from Erie-Buffalo
18A from Youngstown
Saxonburg of the Butler Eagle League has committed to play 18AA.

The Broadhead Bombers or the North County League will play in either the 18A or 18AA division
The Pittsburgh Rangers want to play 35+

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We will have anywhere from 4-7 teams comprised of local Pgh NABA players to add to the 18A, 18AA, and 25A divisions.

So we have 7 non-Pittsburgh NABA teams, we’d like to at least double that and get some money into the pockets of the service industry workers in town.

We have sent out 100’s of emails and are going to start following up with phone calls.

The guys down at the league office have put our tournament on the national website

i still don’t see why our tournament is “regional” and not “national”, when we have a better product – better, at least, than the last tournament in AC, we’re making certain of that.

We even have a casino now.

We traveled the farthest of any of the teams in AC, so by my definition of regional, the tournament was just that.

the extra 35 or however many points towards the national rankings  is what makes the AC Tournament national and ours regional.

The Pittsburgh Blues are ranked 16th overall, and 11th in the 18+ division – nationally.

we talked to the Pirates today and we are negotiating a deal for discounted tickets, then they tried to give us Freddy Sanchez – more on this as it develops.

After the way Pittsburgh handled the last Atlantic City Tournament, you’d think we’d get some more love.

I can’t imagine how much other shit they have to do at national besides cater to us, so whatever.

We appreciate their hard work.

Quack.

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Where will we play and what do we get if we win?

Right now we have obtained the LaRoche College field, and Highfield Park fields #1 and #2.

We will add  more fields of this caliber depending on how many teams enter the tournament.

We will award pool champion prizes, the division champions and runner us will also get awards, along with gold glove and mvp awards,  this will include T-shirts, and a trophy/plaque of some kind that is sure to be mantle-worthy.

We are in the process of soliciting more awards/prizes from sponsors and we will have a nice package to offer the winning teams.

Perhaps you are considering entering a team, and have been directed here by our league site, or the emails we’ve been sending that hopefully haven’t wound up in too many spam folders.  Please allow me to introduce myself before i get into some tournament specs.

I am Ben, I have churned out 100’s of  posts on this site . While I am a member of the Blues, I play first and foremost for the South Oakland Ducks (14-7), who will be fielding a team for the Steel City Classic.

It’s great to be in the midst of a pennant race, and to be involved in organizing the Pittsburgh NABA’s tournament hosting debut.

I have been named Team Liaison by The Commish. So I suppose I should be a bit more diplomatic than I am on my blog where I mostly try to incite riots with photoshop and satire.

My function as far as I can tell is to serve as the utility player of the Tournament Committee – I’m versatile, I can help in any number of ways, or I’ll find someone who can.

this is my picture (Photoshop me!)

I’ve played in the Pittsburgh NABA since its inception in 2003, I founded the Ducks, coached the team from ‘03 to ‘07, and I am still very involved with the organization.  As soon as I handed over the coaching responsibilities the Ducks renaissance began. Along these lines, I acted as tournament director for the Pittsburgh Blues prior to the Blue Gray Classic, since no one else wanted to do it, and when i handed that off to Ben Sorosky the Blues promptly won the 2009 Atlantic City Memorial Day Tournament.

I am still  involved with the Ducks and the Pittsburgh NABA.  I’ve played on each of the four tournament teams our league has fielded, the first two unsuccessful teams in the early days before we became the Blues, and the last two teams that played very well, posting a 6-3 record including a championship over two tourney’s.

Our League has gotten a lot better over the years.  If you are at work and want to kill some time read this it is a solid recap by Blues/Ducks OF Rob Swanger.  He provides a great narrative of our league and how it has grown etc…

After a solid but disappointing showing by the Blues at the 2008 Blue Gray Classic, we got the idea to host a tournament, and started doing preliminary research on the logistics of running such an event in our city.

When the Blues won the AC Tourney, we figured it was time and when we made the decision to go through with this there was a Labor Day Tournament void created by the collapse of the Blue Gray Tournament, strike while the iron is hot, right?

We have played in four of these things and have had experiences ranging from frustrating to phenomenal.

We’ve tried to make everything as geographically-centralized as possible, and the fields we have acquired for our tournament are in fantastic shape.  Short of the minor league parks and major league spring training fields we’ve played on, the fields we have acquired for the Steel City Classic are as good as any I’ve played on in my NABA tournament career.

The most non-baseball fun I’ve had at a tournament was in Phoenix, thanks in part to the atmosphere in at the bars surrounding ASU’s campus. We have many bars and many college girls in Pittsburgh.

Not  a bar person?  There are plenty of  alternatives in our fine city.

It is worth noting here that I grew up in New Jersey, and Pittsburgh is significantly less expensive.

For instance, a tin of Skoal in Pittsburgh costs 3.50, whereas its over 5 in Jersey. Not that I advocate tobacco use, especially not by minors.

You can get a beer for a dollar in pgh, and we have a casino coming soon.  So the down time in Pittsburgh will be much cheaper than in say Atlantic City, where we played over Memorial Day, and while we don’t have a beach, who wouldn’t want to spend a day swimming in one of our three beautiful rivers? – (now slightly less polluted than the Jersey  Shore!)

Ideally, people will leave comments here, and we will address any concerns and answer questions, this post is just to get started really and to provide a forum for comments and feedback from our Tournament Committee, there are many things I’ve left unaddressed, so poke around on the site and if you can’t find an answer let us know.

Right now were in the process of  finalizing sponsorships to try to get more free stuff for the teams that enter our tournament, and recruiting teams.

We promise fantastic tournament t-shirts!

Pittsburgh is a great city, and we have great amateur baseball here.

We look forward to beating seeing you at the 2009 Steel City Classic!

joe, mike, vinny – feel free to edit this – bg

First Annual 2009  Steel City Classic

Hosted by the Pittsburgh NABA – Home of the Pittsburgh Blues

Tournament Information and Registration

DATES: Friday, September 4 – Monday, September 7, 2009

DIVISIONS: 18A, 18AA, 25A, 18 Rookie,  25 Rookie, 35 Rookie, 45 Rookie (Division will occur if 4 or more teams register by the final deposit date)

FORMAT: “Pool” Play consisting of 3 games, Semi-final playoff and Championship game

PLAYOFFS: Semi-Final games either Sunday or Monday morning.

CHAMPIONSHIPS: Monday, September 7, 2009

AWARDS Sponsored by BWP Bats: Champions:  Team Champion Award &  Individual Awards

Runner-up:  Championship Finalist award & Individual Awards

Pool Winner: Pool Champion award

ENTRY FEE: Team Fee: $750 (If deposit is received before 8/03/09)
$850 (If deposit is received after 8/03/09)
* Team fee is for 13 players.  Each additional player over 13 is $50.

*FINAL PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 19, 2009*

**NOTE:  No teams will be accepted after August 19, 2009

Entry fee includes a Steel City Classic t-shirt, team liability insurance, baseballs, fields, umpires, guaranteed 3 games, individual and team champion and runner-up awards, and  pool champion award.

DEPOSITS: All teams must submit a $500.00 (non-refundable) deposit to reserve a place in the tournament.  The balance of the team fee must be submitted by August 19, 2009.  All fees must be in money order or cashier check.   Any team making more than 50% or more of its final team payment at check-in will be subject to a $50.00 late payment fee.

ACCOMMODATIONS: TO BE DETERMINED – Centered in Cranberry, PA

INFORMATION: For further information pertaining to the Steel City Classic, visit our website at www.NABASteelCityClassic.com.  Information pertaining to tournament rules, tiebreaker rules, eligibility rules, schedule requests, refund policies, hotel – airline – car rental information, roster forms and schedules are posted there.

SEND FEES TO:

Pittsburgh NABA
Attn: Steel City Classic
524 Harmony Rd.
Pittsburgh, PA 15237