All-Star Costs

In addition to the time commitment, additional dues are required to be paid to participate in All-Stars. These dues are primarily used to cover the cost of uniforms and tournament fees.  Costs vary from season to season but estimate to be around $375 per player.  All costs related to All-Stars, including travel, will be the responsibility of the applicable player families.

Age & Address Requirements

After selection to the All-Star team, you may be required to provide proof of residency in Riverside County, and you will be required to provide proof of correct age (must be the "legal" age for that division). These are Pony Baseball requirements that every player in every local league must follow.

All-Star Tournaments

Tournaments for each division typically start in mid/late June.  To view the tournament schedule of past years, as well as a TENTATIVE schedule for this year, CLICK HERE.  IMPORTANT: SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WHEN VIEWED EARLY IN SEASON. This doesn't mean it will happen, and if it does it wouldn't be by much, but until you see locations for all dates it's not necessarily locked in yet.  Typically, all teams get a minimum of two tournaments.  Winners of the first tournament would bypass the 2nd and move straight to the 3rd.  Further advancement depends on success.  To continue in All-Stars means playing additional tournaments, possibly as much as every weekend (including sometimes on weekdays), as far as the “World Series” tournaments taking place at the end of July.  MVPB is under no obligation to financially assist families with travel or related expenses, though it will be considered if a tournament is out of Southern California.

Tournament Gate Fees & Other Rules

Host leagues for All-Star Tournaments charge a gate fee usually about $5 per person per day for 12 years and older.  Under 12 are usually free entry.  Players and a certain number of coaches are free entry.  Sometimes they will offer team entry fees instead, where the team would pay approximately $250-$350 and then every guest associated with that team pays no further entrance fee for the remainder of that tournament.  Food, drinks, coolers are not allowed inside, except for a limited amount (usually one or two) of drink coolers for the players and that are to be placed in or next to the dugouts and used only for those players (and coaches).  These rules may seem unreasonable, but each host league puts a lot of time, effort, and money into running these tournaments and they need to make all of that money back, if not get some profit out of it for their league for their efforts.  We encourage you to use their snack bars, as it goes to a good cause and is well deserved to that league for all the work in hosting tournaments.  

Additional Tournaments

Teams may choose to play extra "warmup" tournaments.  These tournaments are paid for by the team, not by the league.  These tournaments are optional for the teams, completely at their discretion and expense.

Practices

All-Star practices may start immediately (at the coach’s discretion) after teams have been formed.  Once our rec season concludes they are typically more frequent than regular-season practices.  Coach’s will be asked to work with those schedules of players that play deep into our end of season tournament.  Practices may also take place on weekends leading up to All-Star tournament play. 

No Play-Time Guarantee

Practice time with advanced level players is the greatest development benefit of participating in All-Stars. While such development is a primary goal of the All-Star season, Murrieta PONY aspires to compete at a high level in all tournaments.  As a result, while Managers are encouraged to provide each player with the opportunity to participate in games, a minimum amount of playing time in every game cannot be guaranteed and position rotation is often infrequent.  There is no minimum playing-time guarantee.

Dropping Out / Being Dropped

Any player dropping out during the All-Star season may lose eligibility for MVPB All-Stars in future years.  Managers may, with Division Director and Executive Board approval, drop or otherwise discipline a player on his team for behavior or attendance reasons.  In either case, no refunds will be given.