Gerald Smiley, former 9th round pick of the Texas Ranger 2001 MLB draft is having tryouts this Saturday August 20 at Brookhaven College baseball field.

Gerald has a long baseball history of playing and teaching the game of baseball.  He played on the National Championship team for Team Baseball America, played 4 years of professional baseball, pitching coordinator at Rips Indoor Pitching Facility, assistant coach at Green River Community College, Manager of Tacoma Cardinals (West Coast CBL), owner of SBI baseball facility, Pitching Coordinator at Liberty High School, and bird dog scout for St. Louis Cardinals.

For more information please contact Gerald at geraldsmiley@gmail.com.

13U Dallas Tigers

Invite by Request Only

Contact Head Coach Randy Thorpe

via email at randall.thorpe@dallastigersbaseball.com

Please include on the email request:

Player Name

Player Birthdate

Throws/Hits (R/L)

Positions played

Player Comments

Father & Mothers names

Home Address

Email

Phone(s)

Tryout Location:

McInnish Park, Carrollton, TX

August 20, 2011

Field #6

Start at 9:00am and end 12:00pm

Randall Thorpe Bio:

Coach Thorpe comes to the Dallas Tigers with an extensive baseball background. He has coached at a high level of select baseball for many years and most recently had 8 former players drafted in the last two MLB drafts.

Coach Thorpe played his major league career with the Texas Rangers organization. Prior to playing for the Rangers, he went to college at The University of Texas at Arlington. Coach Thorpe is a member of UTA Baseball Hall of Fame and still holds long standing base running records there. He also won three national championships as a player. Coach Thorpe’s son Randall currently plays for the Chicago White Soxs minor league team.

His philosophy on coaching is to teach players sound fundamentals and how to play the game, both physically and mentally, in preparation for taking the player to the next level. The goal for his U13 team is to get his youngplayers ready for High School baseball. Once in High School, to use his many contacts in baseball to take the team on show case tournaments to different colleges.

Thanks again to everyone coming out to Tiger tryouts!  It was exciting to see this number of kids attending in each age group.  Thank you as well for being flexible on the scheduling with the weekend rain, etc.  We were committed to making this tryout happen.

Your age group instructors provided a timeline for getting back with everyone.  They are working hard to get things finalized and information out to you.  Thanks for your patience.

Dallas Tigers Baseball Club Tryouts

Dates: August 13th & 14th 2011

Location: Coppell High School, Freshman baseball field
185 West Parkway Blvd
Coppell, TX  75019

Field is west of Football Stadium.  Follow parking lot around north end of football stadium.

Format: Day 1 throw, run, hit – Day 2 Invitation Only

Instructors: Listed on left column of homepage

August 14 (Invitation Only) – Coppell High School Freshman baseball field

8-9u                      9:00-10:30am

10-11u                  11:00-12:30pm

12-13u                  1:00-2:30pm

14-15u                  3:00-4:30pm

16-18u                  5:00-6:30pm

* * * Please email your players information to play@dallastigersbaseball.com

Email Subject: Age Group – Player Name (Ex: 12U – Johnny Baseball)
Player Name
Player Birthdate
Throws/Hits (R/L)
Positions played
Previous teams if any
Comments

Father & Mothers names
Home Address
Email
Phone(s)

Due to overwhelming responses via email we will not be able to respond. Most of your questions will be answered at tryouts as the parents are addressed in every age group session. We are grateful for your interest and look forward to seeing everyone at tryouts.

The 15U Dallas Tigers coached by Tommy Hernandez win the AABC Ken Griffey Jr Division National Championship on Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Tigers went 5-0 to win the AABC Ken Griffey Jr. National Championship held in Owasso, Oklahoma. Battling through temperatures ranging from 109 to 116 degrees, the kids executed all week with fantastic pitching and defense and some timely clutch hitting to bring the Dallas Tigers Baseball Club it’s 18th National Championship and the Tigers 7th AABC Championship. All 16 kids contributed to this championship throughout the week with Tanner Gardner receiving the Outstanding Hitter Award and Brandon Maine was named Tournament MVP. Brandon started and finished games 1 and 5 to deserve this award. Tanner hit .500 for the tournament. Congratulations to all the boys for following up last years Super Series National Championship.

Back row left to right: Head Coach Tommy Hernandez, Manager Mike Barnes, Bryar Barnes, Bryce Carter, Jake Wilcox, Kent Myers, Ryan Cottingame, Turner Larkins, Seth Jordan, Michael Kopech, Asst. Coach Rick Robertson

Front row left to right: Brandon Maine, Ty Harp, Noah Lee, Cal Hernandez, Ryan Robertson, Tanner Gardner, Garrett McCain, Connor Reich. Not shown: Brad Barnett, Foster Sawyer