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Division 3 Neighborhood also starts with a 1-1 count.

Originally Posted by John_W

I played neighborhood league for 15 seasons in a row, that's 5 years since you play 3 fourteen game seasons a year. Neighborhood teams are coed, generally you won't have more than 1 or 2 ladies on a team, if at all. The aluminum bats as mentioned are provided by the league and both teams use the same bats in the game. Usually you get two 28, two 29 and one 30 bat. Level 4 and 5 start with a 1 - 1 count, I think level 3 and above begin with a 0 - 0 count. This was done with the 4 and 5 divisions about 3 years ago to speed up the game. Neighborhood league you can have a runner, they use to allow a runner from home plate, but that was changed in 2015. You must run to 1st base then a runner can replace you. However, you can continue past first for a double or triple but then you lose the option of getting a runner. With the old rule, you couldn't go beyond first base, and if you did by mistake, you were out, and that happened many times.

Even though Neighborhood teams don't change like Rec League, you may have to move around. In my five years I played (1) season with Calumet Grove, (6) seasons with Tamarind Grove, (2) seasons with Liberty Park and (6) seasons with Amelia. Some teams don't have enough players in the summer so you may have to move to another team for a season, sometimes you village doesn't have a team and then gains a team, or your team goes away for awhile. We even had a split, use to be level 4 and 5 played together, then in the fall of 2014 they were split into separate leagues. My team Tamarind Grove at the time, had 10 level 5 players and 2 level 4 players, myself being one. So Tamarind Grove became a 5 level team and I had to move to Amelia and the lother level 4 player moved to St. James.

Now if you want to get really confused, ask about RBL or Restrict Bat League. I played that one season. If mornings are not your thing, they play all their games on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 and 3:30, and you have players from division 4 thru 1 playing together on the same teams.