Junior Optimist Baseball League

The league has grown to approximately one-thousand players and consists of roughly eighty to eighty-five teams per year. In addition to its regular-season play, JOBL hosts an annual after-season invitational tournament for its various divisions and at times, hosts state and regionals Babe Ruth tournaments. For the past several seasons, JOBL, in conjunction with Tesoro, has added the Northern California Softball Special Olympics as a season-ending event. Additionally, many boys and girls teams have participated in various district, state and regional tournaments. The Babe Ruth organization offers several age groups an after-season tournament trail where winners advance. Boys: 7-8s, 9's, 10's, 11's, 12's, 13's, 14's, 13-15's and 16-18's; Girls: 12&Under and 14/16&Under. Babe Ruth also offers a national invitational for the 10&Under and 14&Under divisions. Each year, JOBL sends teams to these very exciting tournaments. Over the years, JOBL has added many benefits to its program. Unlike most leagues, included in its registration fees are team and individual pictures, participation awards for all players, as well as individual trophies to first and second place winners in each division. While JOBL has had traveling teams for many years, the past few years has seen JOBL convert its traveling programs for the boys and girls divisions to year-around play: Glory for the girls and Patriots for the boys. After the regular-season play, each year Glory and Patriot teams travel to various sites for USSSA, ASA and NSA tournament play, as well as to the district, state, regional and world series play offered by Babe Ruth.