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Generations Baseball Wood Bat Tournament Rules and Guidelines

Generations Baseball Wood Bat Tournament Rules and Guidelines
2025 tournament dates: Weekend of October 4th and 5th Rain dates following weekend.
Player eligibility guidelines as follows:
- Teams can be composed of multiple different family groups, not just 1 family. Examples: Smith father/son, Gray grandfather/son/grandson, Miller father/daughter, Jones brothers, etc. Plus you are allowed up to 2 in-laws and 2 players with no family ties. Minimum age is 16 (14 and 15 year olds must be cleared by tournament director). No maximum age.
- If you don’t have enough players for a full team, sign up as a partial team. Full teams will then be created, trying to make sure each team has enough pitching and position players to be competitive.
Roster size and playing time:
- Unlimited roster size, but no player can be on 2 rosters. To be eligible to pitch in a championship game, player must have played in at least 1 other game during the tourney.
- It is strongly recommended (but not mandatory) that every player, at the game, gets at least 1 at-bat and plays at least 2 defensive innings each game.
Offensive Lineup Rules, courtesy runners:
- 39U and 40+ players may not bat consecutively in the offensive batting order. However, if you run out of players in an age group, you may bat up to 4 similarly aged players consecutively, but only at the end of the batting order. All 39U players must be marked in scorebooks with *asterick.
- Players not in the starting batting order, may be added to the bottom of the batting order at any time during the game thus creating a new lineup going forward and must follow above age rules.
- You do not have to take an out for a player who has a game ending injury if no subs are available.
- Line-share batting rule: 2 players are allowed to share a spot in the offensive lineup. Any similarly aged hitter in the lineup can share their batting order spot with another similarly aged player who is currently not in the offensive lineup. Sharing player must declare to the umpire that he/she is line-sharing or be listed in the original lineup as a line-share (batting out of order rule applies).
- No courtesy runners allowed with 1 exception: (The last similarly aged batted out may run for the catcher with 2 outs and can steal). Line-share or regular substitution must be used for all other pinch runners.
- If there are no subs or line-share players available, and a player is ejected from the game, an out must be taken when that spot comes up in the lineup.
Defensive Lineup Rules:
- A minimum of 4 defensive players playing in the field (including pitcher) must be 40 or over. Penalty: extra out for offensive team if brought to umpires attention before 3rd out is made.
- Unlimited defensive substitutions and positions are allowed (except pitchers).
- The defensive lineup is completely separate from the offensive lineup. Defensive players do not have be in the offensive lineup and visa-versa.
Pitching Rules:
- Combined players under the age of 40 can only pitch a maximum of 3 innings per 7 inning game.
- Players 40 and over must pitch the remaining innings.
- Only starting pitchers may re-enter the game as a pitcher again, but must sit out 3 outs or more.
- If game goes into extra-innings, a 39U pitcher may pitch 1 additional inning in that game.
- Players still playing or planning to play, High School, Jr High, College, or Summer Travel Ball, at
anytime during the next calendar year may only pitch 1 inning per game.
- Penalty for pitching rules violation: extra out for offensive team after legal pitcher goes in.
General Rules, Points of Emphasis and Special Tournament Rules:
- The “Official Rules of Major League Baseball” will be used as the main rule book, with additional tournament specific rules listed in these guidelines.
- This is a wood bat tournament, no metal or composite bats are allowed.
- All games will be 7 innings, rainouts considered complete games after 4-1/2 or 5 innings.
- 15 run rule after 5 innings or 12 runs after 6 innings. Losing team has option to take their last at-bats consecutively to finish the game, but game winner will not change, and runs won’t count towards playoff tie-breakers.
- No new inning may start after 2 hours and 15 minutes from start of game.
- No time limit on championship games.
- Extra inning games will start with last batter from previous inning on 2nd base and 2-1 count.
- MLB rules that cannot be accomplished, such as pitch clock, bigger bases, etc. will not apply.
- This tournament is intended to be competitive, but good sportsmanship is required. There will be zero tolerance for dirty play, malicious contact, foul language, taunting, drugs, alcohol, equipment throwing, umpire riding, and the like.
- A team may play with 8 players but no less.
- All runners must avoid contact with defensive players, by sliding directly into a base or away from the fielder, veering off on a force out, or dodging the defensive player.
- Defensive players cannot block the base with or without the ball. Runner must be given a lane.
- Ejected players will be ineligible to play the remainder of the tournament, but may appeal to tournament director
- Any offensive or defensive rules violations, including all tournament specific rules, must be brought to the attention of the umpire at the time of the violation, before a pitch is thrown to the next batter, and is not retroactive (standard batting out of order rule applies).
Rosters, Line-up Cards, Scorekeeping, Uniforms, Miscellaneous:
- Rosters must be turned in to tournament director, no later than September 20th. You can still put additional players on your roster after this date by notifying tournament director.
- Rostered players must be listed in their family groups with first & last names, birth year, and relationship to other family members. Anyone born in 1986 or younger will be considered 39U. No limit on how many players you can put on your roster, only that they cannot be on another teams roster.
- Coach must make batting line-up card out in triplicate, before each game, with uniform number for each player listed, and all 39U players astericked *. 1 copy for umpire, 1 copy for opposing team and 1 copy for yourself.
- All players whether in starting lineup or not, that may potentially play either offense or defense, must also be listed on line-up card or on a separate sheet listing your complete roster.
- Home team to keep official scorebook. Visiting team to double check score frequently to make sure both scorebooks match up.
- All players must be in full uniform with baseball hats. Jerseys must have numbers on back. Duplicate numbers are allowed. Uniforms and hats do not necessarily need to match.
- Teams must remove all trash from their dugouts after each game. No tobacco or gum litter.
Cost, game formats, rain dates, baseballs, wood bats, bat boys, field locations:
- 2025 tournament dates: Weekend of October 4th and 5th, rain dates the following weekend.
- Tournament entry fee is $595 per team, not including umpire fees. Umpire fee of $75 per team, must be paid, in cash, directly to umpire before each game will begin. Deposit of $100 per team, to hold your spot. 12 team max for tournament.
- Tournament director will supply 3 new baseballs per game. If more baseballs are needed, teams must supply them and they need to meet the approval of the umpire.
- All games to be 7 innings, unless rain, run rule, time limit, or extra innings.
- Exact pool play and playoff format, to be determined, based on number of entered teams.
- All teams to play 2 pool games on Saturday and 1 pool game on Sunday. Championship game(s) on Sunday. The most games any team will play for the weekend is 4. Teams not making a championship game will only play 3 games for the weekend.
- If first weekend is a complete wash-out, tournament will be moved to the following weekend.
- If spotty rainouts, we will try to get in as many games as possible. Teams will then have the option to finish tournament the following weekend, drop out, or take 50% refund if only 1 game is played. $500 refund if both weekends are a complete washout. No refund if at least 2 games are played.
- Seeding to be determined by win/loss record, head to head, least runs allowed, runs scored, and coin flip, in that order. Blem bats are available for $49 each in 243 or 271 models and in lengths of 32”, 32.5”, 33”, 33.5”.
Custom wood bats in Ash, Birch and Maple are also available for $89 each in assorted colors.
-No non-players will be allowed in dugouts and No Bat Boys/Girls. Too dangerous. All children under 9 years old must be accompanied by a non-playing adult (not a player).
- All games will be played at Grays Field of Dreams, Margaretta Varsity Field and Clyde Varsity Field. All fields are natural grass and dirt. Metal spikes are allowed.
Field Locations and Contacts:
-Grays Field of Dreams at 6910 County Road 249, Vickery, Ohio
-Margaretta Varsity Baseball Field at 305 S Washington St, Castalia, OH
-Clyde Varsity Baseball Field at 1015 Race Street, Clyde, Ohio
-Cell phone for tournament director, Bob Gray is 419-271-5302, email: teaklumber@gmail.com

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