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Perfect Game Announces Dates and Locations for its
2023 Select Baseball Festivals for 11U - 14U Players
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Wednesday, March 22, 2023) – Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, today announced the 2023 schedule for its Select Baseball Festivals, featuring 11U, 12U, 13U and 14U baseball players from around the United States.
Perfect Game developed its 11U-14U Select Baseball Festivals as part of its ongoing commitment to provide best-in-class playing opportunities for players of all ages and from all backgrounds. Perfect Game seeks to use these events as a way to build a lifetime bond between its participants and the sport of baseball, by providing players a safe, fun and all-inclusive environment in which to compete.
The 2023 11U-14U Select Baseball Festival schedule will once again visit Marietta, GA, Knoxville, TN and Ft. Myers, FL. The details of each Festival are as follows:
11U – August 3-6, 2023, at the East Cobb Baseball/Softball Complex, Marietta, GA (Players born on or after May 1, 2011, or a 2030 graduate born on or after January 1, 2011)
12U – August 10-13, 2023, at the East Cobb Baseball/Softball Complex, Marietta, GA (Players born on or after May 1, 2010, or a 2029 graduate born on or after January 1, 2010)
13U – August 24-27, 2023, at Lindsey Nelson Stadium (University of Tennessee) in Knoxville, TN (players born on or after May 1, 2009, or a 2028 graduate who was born on or after January 1, 2009)
14U – August 31 - September 3, 2023, at JetBlue Ballpark, Ft. Myers, FL (players born on or after May 1, 2008, or a 2027 graduate who was born on or after January 1, 2008)
Perfect Game previously announced that its popular National Showcase and prestigious All-American Classic will be held at Chase Field in Phoenix, AZ, July 11-15 and August 20, respectively.
“A true sign that spring is in the air and baseball is emerging from its winter hibernation, is the announcement of Perfect Game’s 2023 Select Baseball Festivals,” stated Perfect Game National Director of 13u & 14u Player Development and Festivals, Jheremy Brown. “We’re honored to be hosting these fun and exciting four-day events in some of the most baseball-loving communities in America. We thank our partners and fans in Fort Myers, Knoxville and Marietta for welcoming Perfect Game, its players and families to their towns.”
To further help with its player evaluation process leading up to its Select Baseball Festivals, National Showcase and All-American Classic, Perfect Game will once again host 13U and 14U regional showcases throughout early spring and into the summer, providing its scouts opportunities to evaluate players and extend invitations to the 2023 13U and 14U National Showcases.
Perfect Game scouts also will be out watching 13U and 14U players at several events during the spring and summer, in an effort to identify as many of the top young players in their respective age categories as possible. Additionally, throughout the season players are identified in the 11U and 12U age groups by their standout performance in high-level Perfect Game Tournaments such as Super Regional NITs, National World Series in Atlanta, and the Perfect Game Invitational National Championship held in Southaven, MS.
For the complete schedule of regional showcase dates and locations, please click here.
For more about Perfect Game, please visit PerfectGame.org.
What our Strategic Partners are Saying…
“Cobb County is honored to continue the legacy of hosting championship baseball here in our community including the 11U & 12U PG Select Baseball Festival this summer. Perfect Game is a vital partner, and their legacy is a part of the fabric of Cobb County. The PG Select Baseball Festival will shine a spotlight on the future of baseball, and visitors will get the opportunity to experience what makes Cobb County Atlanta’s Sweet Spot.” – Cobb Travel and Tourism Vice President Sports Sales and Engagement, Rachel Rogers
"We are so excited to welcome the Perfect Game 13u Select Baseball Festival back to Knoxville for 2023. It was an amazing event last year and will be even better this year. We look forward to watching these young athletes compete at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, the Home of the Vols.” – Visit Knoxville’s Senior Director – Sports Commission and Convention Sales, Chad Culver
“Lee County is proud to once again host the Perfect Game 14U Select Baseball Festival in 2023. This Select Baseball Festival is more than just a baseball tournament for our community. It is a legacy event, providing national media attention as well as raising over $100,000 for the Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida. The 14U Select Baseball Festival, along with Perfect Game’s other 30 baseball tournaments, will bring much-needed stimulus to our community as we continue to recover from Hurricane Ian.” – Lee County (FL) Sports Development Executive Director, Jeff Mielke
Media Contact: Daron Sutton, dsutton@perfectgame.org, 602-769-5712
About Perfect Game
Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players are performing with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 1,847 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 13,893 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2022 Draft, for example, more than 90 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.