Last updated: May 25, 2008

Regular Season

Apollo Slow Pitch takes place from Friday, May 9, 2008 until the end of August at the West Hillhurst Community Centre (18th Street and 5th Avenue NW, East Field), from 7:00 - 9:00 pm.

Logistics

The evening's agenda is always: warm up, socializing, team formation, socializing, first pitch at 7pm with the games finishing around 9pm and socializing.

Teams will be formed on a drop-in basis each week. The organizing team will do their best to ensure the teams are of equal calibre. In the event you have issues or concerns with the way the teams have been created, you will be asked to help with team selection the following week.

We have two diamonds booked for the first month. If there is enough interest, we will be looking at splitting the league into two divisions competitive and recreation. We will be looking for volunteers to run a 50/50 draw each week.

Costs

Notes

1. All slow pitch ball players who have paid the yearly league fees on or before May 9th, 2008, will have their name entered into a draw to win their league fees back ($50 value).
2. Non-Apollo Members are eligible to play in three league games before being required to buy an Apollo Membership.
3. No refunds will be given for absent or rained out weeks.

Equipment

The Apollo slow pitch league will provide bases, bats and balls. Each player should show up in appropriate wear for playing slow pitch. This includes, sneakers or cleats (no metal cleats or sandals), ball glove (you maybe able to borrow at the diamond) and comfortable clothes to play in.

Liquor

The City of Calgary strictly prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages in City parks.

Rules

Apollo slow pitch is governed by the rules of Slo-Pitch National (SPN).

First Base – the double safety base is used to prevent incidents on the field. When a play is being made at first, the first basement is only allowed to play on the white side of the bag. If the first basement touches only the orange, it will be classified as a missed base and the runner will be safe.

The base runner will run to the orange. If there is no play to the base and the base runner is going for two bases, the runner is allowed to touch the white. If there is a play to first and the base runner touches only the white, the base runner will be called out.

If a batted ball hits any part of the white portion of the bag, it is a fair ball. If a batted ball only touches the orange portion of the base, it is a foul ball.

Infield Fly - is a fairly batted fly ball (not a line drive) which can be caught by an infielder with ordinary effort when first and second, or when first, second and third bases are occupied with less then two out.

If deemed an INFIELD FLY, we will call “infield fly, if fair, batter is out”. When this is called, base runners do not have to advance.

Base Stealing – is not permitted.

Leading off – is not permitted. One of the base runners feet must be on the base at all time until the batter has made contact with the ball.

Scoring – for safety reasons, you do not touch home plate to score. When you come in to score, you will run behind the home plate mat.

Questions