Baseball

[Ratcliff]

Anyone ever been on the team? Know anything about it? Where they go? How they do? How to get on the team?

[BR34]

What the F*UCK!!!!!

[Marine84]

You want to join the Corps to play baseball?

[SlingerDun]

Ever hit with a wood bat?http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/images/icons/icon10.gif Looks like pretty good duty if you can get it. Probably like the All-Marine wrestling and boxing teams you gotta be sh*t hot to qualify.

[Phantom Blooper]

I don't understand this question...but if you are referring to intermural baseball/sports between units....BECOME A MARINE FIRST!


"Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game."
:beer:

[sparkie]

A real player,, like us, would not have asked that question,,,,,,,,

[SGT7477]

Join the army of none.

[Troutzilla]

baseball....BASEBALL!!.....WTF**K kind of sheet is that?? We have a Machine Gun Team, Mortar Team. Groundpounding Arse kickin' Team, Air Wing Team....etc,etc.....but we ain't got no stinkin' baseball team !!

[0231Marine]

Anyone ever been on the team? Know anything about it? Where they go? How they do? How to get on the team?

I think he's talking about the Marine Corps Baseball Team.

My recruiter was on the team and honestly, that was a selling point for me when I enlisted. I played baseball in college but dropped out after 9/11 and enlisted.

Now, as bad as I wanted to try out, and honestly, I would have had an easy time making it, I never got the chance because I deployed 4 times to Iraq...lol.

To answer your questions though, yes, the Marine Corps Baseball Team is very good. Surprisingly, there are quite a few Marines like myself that have played college or even semi-pro ball. The team plays minor league teams and against the other services for about 4 months during the spring. If you make the team, you're cut TAD orders and that's your job for about 4 months. Obviously, it's a lot of fun to get the chance to play baseball for 4 months straight and for that reason, it's very competitive.

However, I would caution you to be realistic and factor in the reality that the nation is at war still and deployments come quite often. If you make it through bootcamp, don't expect to request the the opportunity to go try out for the baseball team as a boot pfc who hasn't even spent time in the fleet yet. My command wouldn't approve my request and I had already done 3 tours in Iraq. Mission comes first!

[Ratcliff]

I think he's talking about the Marine Corps Baseball Team.

My recruiter was on the team and honestly, that was a selling point for me when I enlisted. I played baseball in college but dropped out after 9/11 and enlisted.

Now, as bad as I wanted to try out, and honestly, I would have had an easy time making it, I never got the chance because I deployed 4 times to Iraq...lol.

To answer your questions though, yes, the Marine Corps Baseball Team is very good. Surprisingly, there are quite a few Marines like myself that have played college or even semi-pro ball. The team plays minor league teams and against the other services for about 4 months during the spring. If you make the team, you're cut TAD orders and that's your job for about 4 months. Obviously, it's a lot of fun to get the chance to play baseball for 4 months straight and for that reason, it's very competitive.

However, I would caution you to be realistic and factor in the reality that the nation is at war still and deployments come quite often. If you make it through bootcamp, don't expect to request the the opportunity to go try out for the baseball team as a boot pfc who hasn't even spent time in the fleet yet. My command wouldn't approve my request and I had already done 3 tours in Iraq. Mission comes first!

Very nice. Thank you very much.

[PaidinBlood]

Just curious-how long can you stay there? We had a senior fella come aboard right as I was leaving who had supposedly spent his career between the depot and the softball team (we have one of those too?) CAn't remember exactly but it was supposedly a few years on "the Team". You know, after a while it is hardly fair to Marines in a unit, let alone those competing for promotion...

[Echo_Four_Bravo]

The All Marine teams are no joke. I've known people that were on the Rugby team and a person that was recruited specifically to be a martial artist (I went through comm school with him.) If you're just an above average high school player you're not going to make the cut. But, there are plenty of opportunities for you.

I knew I didn't have the skills to play on the All Marine baseball team so I never considered it. I was recruited to play at a couple of small colleges out of high school, so it wasn't as if I didn't know how to handle myself. But those guys are amazing. (And of course my chosen sport was football and I pursued that before enlisting in the Marine Corps.) Even if you don't play on the All Marine level, there are places for you to compete. We had base baseball and rugby teams, several football teams for a base league, and just about every unit had a softball team.

[0231Marine]

The All Marine teams are no joke.

Like Mike Anderson who played football and went on to play for the Denver Broncos and there was a pitcher on the baseball team that got drafted by the Padres after he EAS'd!

[Echo_Four_Bravo]

Mike Anderson wasn't even an All Marine level athlete. He played on the 11th Marines football team and was seen by a Junior College coach (Mt. San Jacinto) and then went to the University of Utah. The rest is pretty well known.