National amateur baseball association

On October 10, , the natural amphitheater at what is now Cleveland Metroparks Brookside Reservation hosted possibly the largest crowd to ever assemble for an amateur sporting event. Attendance of the baseball game was estimated at between 80, and , by newspapers, park staff and city officials. The game would be remembered as the pinnacle of the sport's popularity in Cleveland. While amateur baseball continued to attract huge audiences until the s, the matches held during the National Amateur Baseball Association tournaments of and proved to be the most memorable. Captured in film and panoramic photographs, Clevelanders would harken back to these games as the heyday of the amateur sport. The successes and complications that arose from the series of matches, though, provided a point of departure for the National Amateur Baseball Federation to be born and develop a lasting amateur baseball circuit in the Midwest.

The NABF Tournaments are made affordable because of its non-profit status and the wonderful volunteers that help run these quality events. Please click below to see the list of tournaments--their locations and dates. The NABF welcomes new membership! If you are a league, you can register your league as a franchise.

The Continental Amateur Baseball Association launched the initial season in with the vision of starting a new more user-friendly youth baseball organization that would provide more teams the opportunity to participate at the national level. As the new kid on the block at that time, it was incumbent upon them to develop a program that would offer real alternatives, so the C. In addition, the C. World Series events. In addition, hundreds of players that have since gone on to play at the professional level have played in C.

The NABF holds over 50 regional championship and eight national championship tournaments at various skill levels and age groups, ranging from 10 and under youth , teen , summer collegiate , senior, and major. This article related to a baseball league, competition or tournament is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.