Farmington Amateur Athletic Club was born of necessity to bring structure and continuity of post Little League baseball in the town of Farmington. Founders Greg Warren, Mike Clark, Tim Haviland and Jeff Cohan initiated and applied for a not for profit exempt status for an entity whose mission would be to promote and operate competitive baseball teams in town for players ages 13-19.

Heretofore  exiting players from our towns FYBL program would have a myriad of options that were not clearly defined or developed. Babe Ruth was largely an ad hoc effort in the spring where motivated dad's would ask 10-13 players to play with them and it was everybody for themselves mentality. Things would deteriorate even more for summer baseball opportunities as an effort was made to recruit the better players or "connected" players to play on 1 select team in the at the time Jaycee Courant baseball League. Warren, Clark and Haviland had attempted to bring some sort of organization to the process of entering teams into the Jaycee Courant league but still separate entities continued to split apart the pool of players.

With the organized entity Mike Clark was asked to represent Farmington as a  Board member of the Jaycee Courant League.  With Greg Warrens and Tim Havilands help they structured tryouts and entered a team in each age division of the Jaycee Courant league. After an 8 year association as a board member of FYBL and two year stint as Pres. of FYBL Cohan was recruited by Clark, Warren and Haviland  to assume the leadership role of the FAAC organization. Through an aggressive fund raising effort and an active effort to publicize the organizations intent to be the promoter and organizer of post little league baseball FAAC structured a summer baseball sponsorship that would fund and organize all Jaycee TD Bank (name changed in 2006) teams as well as our towns American Legion teams. FAAC immediately expanded the number of teams represented in the Jaycee TD Bank League from 2-3 the past 5 years to 5-6 teams. FAAC would sponsor two Prep division team for players age 13 (exiting little league) 2 Junior division teams players age 14-15 and 1 or 2 Sr. division teams for players 16-19. In addition FAAC would fund and organize two Unionville American Legion teams with 1 Jr. American Legion team and 1 Sr. American Legion team. 

Essentially FAAC was funding, sponsoring, and organizing 7-8 summer baseball teams and effectively increased summer baseball opportunity from 36-45 players to 95-115 players.  It is important to note that FAAC sponsored teams and the Jaycee TD Bank league are not entitlement leagues such as Babe Ruth and Little League. These teams are formed for competitive ball players who are looking for more than a recreational opportunity. Most in these summer programs and teams players are looking to continue playing competitively and are working towards ascending to their various high school or Prep school teams and the older participants are working towards an opportunity to possibly play in college. While these goals are not the highest priority of FAAC,  development of baseball skills through well organized and well coached teams is a defined and articulated goal of the FAAC organization.

Before FAAC the more skilled and advanced players would look to leave town and pursue baseball through AAU and Travel teams such as Team Ct., Swanson Baseball, Blaze and Baseball City to name a few. All of these are terrific programs and do offer an enhanced and concentrated baseball experience at a price, typically $2500-$4500 a season. FAAC 's mission was to provide a similar experience in town via stronger organization and better quality of coaching.

FAAC was aware early on that it was incumbent upon us to give back to our town for granting our program use of such a fine facility as Tunxis Meads Grocki Field.

Over the past six years FAAC has contributed the college quality Scoreboard, the professional quality batting turtle (portable cage), two batting cages, Infield tractor, Field speakers and PA system, Field Tarps (3), Storage shed and garage door,  Code lock for press-booth, 3 pallets of mound clay bricks (rebuilt mound twice), 2 infield stripers, 17 rakes (past 3 years-where do they go??), Batting cage home plate mats (2), portable pitching mound, home plate matt for BP, 3 L screens, Hundreds of dollars of Turfus and lime, and significant man hours prepping and closing the facility for beginning of season and end of season. In addition FAAC has sponsored numerous clinics with the likes of Trinity head baseball coach Bill Decker and our FHS Varsity coach Mike McGuire as well as our very capable FAAC season coaches. 

FAAC has also purchased 6 sets of new uniforms typically putting a new uniform in play every third season for each level and purchases balls and equipment as well as insurance for all 6-8 teams sponsored. Our summer game schedules avg 16-20 games for our Prep players 18-22 for Jr division and Sr. division of the Jaycee TD Bank league and 22-30 games for Jr. Legion and 27-35 games for Sr. legion. Each season FAAC schedules all teams games and provides for exposure to Tunxis Mead's Grocki field (our towns showcase field) for all level of teams including night games. FAAC has handled the scheduling for the past 6 seasons to the satisfaction of all involved. At no time does the town get involved in scheduling or organizing any summer baseball teams.

Two years ago the town instituted a player field use fee of $10 per player. FAAC typically collects this fee as a tryout fee at the beginning of the season. 

With the leadership of FAAC unchanging the past six years the FAAC organization will be looking to add some depth over the winter. Largely the senior leadership of FAAC will be distancing themselves gradually as new proven and capable leadership emerges.

Lastly,  another foundation and mission of the organization has always been to " leave the program better than we found it". To this end FAAC has a very ambitious field improvement plan that has moved clearly out of the "wish" stage. The plan is to create stadium seating and improved sight-lines for all fans, build new dugouts, build a covered batting cage and pitching tunnel, lazer level and rework the infield, replace the aging outfield wall, turf the infield and add a concession stand. These as mentioned are ambitious plans but funding is taking shape and planning is ongoing. This website will keep all abreast of progress in the coming months. FAAC remains committed to being the caretaker, organizer, and promoter of competitive baseball in Farmington.

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