Boston Broncos won the Boston RBI league 18u Boston Broncos Baseball has participated in several tournaments in Massachusetts.
Our Mission
The mission of the Boston Broncos Organization is to prepare the young people in Jamaica Plain and other Boston neighborhoods for success in education, employment, and community in life by breaking down racial barriers, developing skills and self-esteem, promoting non-violence, providing personal support, and offering safe structure activities.
2008 Season
Sponsorship and coaching opportunities available please join our efforts as Boston program. For more info on getting involved, please email us today.
2008 Traveling teams:
Various teams in the 9-18 ages group will travel to tournaments in Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut and in the summer to the Dominican Republic.
AAU
Babe Ruth American Legion
2008 Summer Baseball Division:
T-Ball ages 4-7 (120-150 players)
• Rookie League ages 8-10 (6 teams) 120+ players
• Minor League ages 10-12 (8 teams) 150+ players
• Mayor League ages 13-15 (8 teams) 150+ players
• Wooden Bat League ages 16-18 (6 teams) 120+ players
• AAU 10u, 14u (2 team)
• RBI League 13u 14u 15u 16u 17u 18u (6 teams)
• Babe Ruth League 18u (1 team)
• American Legion 19u (1 team)
Boston Broncos Baseball
P.O. Box 300422 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Make a Donation
A tax exempt organization under section 501 (c) (3)
Of The Internal Revenue
Contacts:
League Commissioner
Jose Ortega
BostonBroncosBaseball@yahoo.com
Cell: 617-595-3168
Executive Director/
Head of Fundraising/ Sponsors
Josh Powell
Cell: 617-445-7251
Commissioners ages 7-9
Ruben Inoa
Luis02466@yahoo.com
Work: 617-577-2509
Cell: 617-592-3297
Commissioners ages 10-12
Henry Tapia
Cell: 857-334-0180
Commissioners ages 13- 15
Jose Ortega
Jose@bostonbroncos.com
Commissioners ages 16-18
Julio Bello
Jbello8838@yahoo.com
617-201-5861
Program
The Boston Broncos offer, sports, academic and personal help to over 1,000 boys and girls ages 5-18. These activities include baseball, basketball, softball, and traveling teams.
History
The Boston Broncos was founded in 1999 with several little league teams by a coalition of neighbors concerned about the safety of their children and neighborhood. Today we have grown to leagues for boys and girls numbering over a thousand. We are the primary source of athletic training and educational support for thousands of city’s youth. Today it is one of the most organized and structured programs in the city.
Structure
The Boston Broncos board of Trustees (see attach list) include 7 members. Most live in Jamaica Plain, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Dorchester and Roxbury we have strong ties to the Boston community. The board approves The Broncos budget and reviews major program initiative. The Treasure overseas the finances and fundraising for the organization. The board has extensive partnerships with the city of Boston, youth centers and youth agencies, providing facilities and other capacities for our programs and many neighborhood resources for our participants.
Girls Outreach Program
Despite well-documented physical and psychological benefits, girls’ participation in athletic is limited by lack of opportunity and gender stereotypes. Girls living in poverty, especially girls of color are most limited in their access to physical activity and sport. Boston Broncos have always included girls, but we need to include them more in the sports and education. We proposed to remedy this situation by introducing an outreach program geared exclusively for girls. This will be done with new staff, new partnership, ad input from the girls themselves. Project initiatives include: An expanded girl’s softball team ages 9-18, girl’s basketball year round ages 13-18, and expanding educational resources at the grammar and high school level. In the summer the girls will attend educational classes two times a week for one hour and in the fall and winter 3 nights a week. All participants will be supervised by adult tutors; teachers and mentors while on the ball field and the classrooms.
How the education resource center meets the youth needs
Our staff and coaches will have close relationship with participants enabling them to encourage hard work, providing tutoring and homework, and help them plan for the future. This combination of athletic and educational achievement takes many powerful forms.
Forms
Sports build leadership and life skills; help kids succeed in school; promote esteem, teach nutrition, exercise, and motivate youth to continue their education. We will provide tutoring and a place to study, and the people that deals with college counseling will begin seeking out children as early as Junior High School.
Staff, peers, and volunteers will show participants that college is possible. We will push them and give them support to make the most of their current educational opportunities and to achieve at a high level. The range of educational services is a natural and comfortable extension of participation in our sports programs. The Boston Broncos participants come from homes with little tradition of Higher education and attend schools that offer little support. Ask them whether or not they plan to go to college they will say yes, but ask what steps they have taken (e.g. selecting colleges, taking SAT), and you will find they have done little or nothing. These young people may see college as s dream or fantasy, but most do not see it as a realistic option and have done next to nothing --- and, in fact, don’t know what to do—to make that dream a reality.
Broncos Funding and Sustainability
Current Funding
We are seeking funding from many foundations that will support our present programs and our new Educational Goals. We continue to receive support from the City of Boston and Individual donations and in-kind donations in the form of volunteers, donated offices, facilities and equipment. We will approach more private funders that we have not approached and target appeals around specific projects, e.g. the Girls Outreach project, and the Educational Resource Center.We are researching potential new public and private grant sources that make long term or multi-year grants.
Field Location
English High School Field:
Jamaica Plain on Washington St, McBride St & Amory St;opposite of Doyle’s Café, about ¼ mile from the Orange Line Forest Hills.
Healy Field:
In Roslindale on the 4100 blocks on Washington St. Several blocks before Roslindale Square coming from the Forest Hill MBTA station. Several buses from Forest Hills Station pass along the route.
Marcella Park:
Across the street from Jackson Station. On Columbus Ave and Centre St; Roxbury
Murphy Field:
In Jamaica Plain on Child St, Carolina St & South St; at rear of the Agassiz Elementary School; about ¼ mile from the Forest Hills Orange Line Station; the 39 MBTA bus drops off at Carolina & South St.
Winter Program:
Boys & Girls
Boston Broncos Winter Program
Curtis Hall Community Center
20 South St Jamaica Plain, MA 0213
