Target: Spring 2027 (TBD)

Every Kid Bats. Every Kid Fields. Every Sunday Stays Yours.

Battleground Baseball is a youth baseball program in Houston Heights and Spring Branch for children ages 4 and 5. We have been doing this since 2007, we ran for more than a decade, and we are coming back. Registration opens soon.

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Three promises we actually keep

Most programs make these in the parking lot. We put them in writing.

Every kid bats, every game.

Your child gets the same number of at-bats as the best hitter on the team, regardless of batting average. We track the individual player's development, not the team's record.

Every kid learns three positions.

Each player spends the season on one specialized position, one infield position, and one outfield position. By the last game they have real reps at three spots instead of standing in right field for eight weeks.

We never play on Sunday.

Not once, not for a makeup game, not for a tournament. Church comes first, and we have held that line since 2007.

This program is aimed at the dads

Battleground Baseball is a ministry that happens to play baseball.

Commissioner Doug Moore started it in 2007 after years of coaching in other leagues, and the thing he kept noticing had nothing to do with the game. The boys with no father in the stands were almost always the first to quietly disappear from the program.

So the program was built to pull fathers in. The Bible curriculum is designed to be completed at home with the dad leading it. The reward system pays out to the family, not just the kid. Practices are structured so a father who has never played an inning of organized baseball can still be the one standing over his child’s shoulder.

Of the families who came through our program in past seasons, only thirty percent had a church home. For most of them, this was the first time anyone in the house had opened scripture together.

“Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds.”
— Deuteronomy 11:18

What you are actually signing up for

How a season works

Twelve players to a team. Practices and games run on a station system, so nobody stands in a line waiting for a turn. Equipment is hauled in, set up, and torn down by volunteers before your family arrives. Coaches coach and go home.

Each week your child brings home a curriculum lesson built around a figure from the Old Testament. You complete it as a family. Turn it in at either of the next two practices and your child earns Pay Dirt, our program currency, which spends on registration, uniforms, equipment, lessons, and concessions.

Practices and games are scheduled to keep siblings together, because we know what four separate pickup times does to a Tuesday.

Four clubs, back for Spring 2027

Matadores, Dragons, Highlanders, and Toros.

These have been the Battleground ballclubs since the beginning. All four are on the program shield, one to a quarter, around the cross. They are coming back with the program.

Matadores

Dragons

Highlanders

Toros