Hard enough to make them better. Not so hard it takes their childhood.

A 10U travel baseball program in Washington Township, Michigan. We play real competition in the North Oakland Baseball Federation and three summer tournaments — then we get out of the way and let them be kids.

Three tournaments one a month through the summer, not nine across the calendar

Active most of the year with November and December off for families and the holidays

Written commitments playing time and conduct standards published before anyone signs

What travel lite actually means

Travel baseball has drifted toward year-round commitment, seven tournament weekends, and the quiet suggestion that a ten-year-old's future is being decided right now. We don't believe that, so we didn't build it. The competition is real. The volume is not.

Side by side with a typical 10U travel program
	Washington Anvils	Typical 10U travel
Tournaments	Three across the summer	Six to nine
Practices in season	One or two a week	Three or four a week
Winter	Time off around the holidays	Year-round training
Other sports	Encouraged	Tolerated, sometimes not
Playing time	Written minimums, published before you commit	Varies, often unwritten

How the year runs

We stay active for most of the year without taking over your calendar. Outdoor practices in the fall, indoor work through the winter, then league play and tournaments from spring into July.

November and December belong to families. The program goes dark, arms rest, and players are free to play another sport or nothing at all. Beyond that stretch, expect one or two sessions a week — enough to develop, not so much that baseball becomes the only thing your son does.

The full schedule, including every tournament weekend, goes to families well before the season so summers can be planned around it.

Who we are

How the club started, the culture we're building, and how we're organized.

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Who's coaching

The three coaches your son will work with, and what they bring to the field.

Meet the coaches

What we promise you in writing

These are in the family handbook, published before anyone commits. You can hold us to all of them.

Every player plays, every game

Nobody sits a full game, and every player gets a written minimum of defensive innings.

Everybody learns everything

Multiple positions for every player. Specializing a ten-year-old is how you get a fourteen-year-old who quits.

Arms before wins

Pitch counts and rest are followed to the letter. A tired pitcher comes out, and there's no discussion about it on the field.

One voice during games

No coaching from the fence, and no contact with umpires. Most 10U umpires are teenagers.

The 24-hour rule

No conversations about playing time on game day. Wait a day, then ask us anything — we'll answer honestly.

An honest calendar

Published well ahead of the season. Multi-sport athletes are welcome and we work around them.

Interested in playing?

Roster spots are limited and we fill them carefully. Tell us your son's age and a bit about him, and we'll be in touch about the current season or the next one.

Season fees vary year to year with facility and tournament costs. We'll walk you through the full budget, line by line, before you commit to anything.

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Support the club

Sponsorships pay for indoor practice time through a Michigan winter and keep the cost to families down.

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About the Anvils

The Washington Anvils Baseball Club is a 10U travel program based in Washington Township, built by parents and coaches from this community for families in this community.

Why we started

Travel baseball in southeast Michigan has grown expensive and all-consuming. Seven or eight tournament weekends. Year-round training. Fees that climb past three thousand dollars before anyone has bought a glove. Somewhere in there, the thing that was supposed to be fun turned into an obligation with a payment plan.

We wanted a program that competed seriously without asking a family to hand over their whole year — one where a ten-year-old could play travel baseball in the summer, basketball in the winter, and still be a kid in between. That program didn't quite exist near us, so we built it.

Where the name comes from

An anvil doesn't do the flashy work. It sits there, takes the hits, and doesn't move — and nothing gets made without one. That's the kind of player we're trying to build: durable, dependable, and still standing at the end of a long summer.

The culture we're building

Every program says it develops players and builds character. Here's what that actually looks like on our field.

We coach the whole roster

Not the top four, and not just our own kids. At 10U, players develop on wildly different timelines, and the best player in October is often not the best player in July.

Everybody learns everything

Your son will play multiple positions and pitch in practice. Locking a ten-year-old into one role produces a teenager who can only do one thing.

Arms come before wins

Pitch counts and rest requirements are followed to the letter, and we follow the stricter of the league's rules or our own. If that costs us a tournament, it costs us a tournament.

Failure is the curriculum

Baseball is the only sport where succeeding a third of the time makes you excellent. No screaming at kids, no benching for errors, no conditioning as punishment.

Parents matter as much as players

One voice during a game, and it isn't yours. Zero contact with umpires. Disagreements come to us privately, a day later, and we'll always take that conversation.

We tell you the truth

About your kid, about the budget, about why a decision was made. Kindly, and when you ask.

How we're organized

The Anvils are a Michigan nonprofit corporation with an application for 501(c)(3) recognition pending. We are governed by a five-member board of directors, two of whom have no child in the organization — so decisions about playing time, conduct, and money aren't made solely by the people standing in the dugout.

No coach or board member is paid. Every dollar collected goes to league and tournament entry fees, insurance, indoor practice space, uniforms, and equipment. The full line-item budget is published to every family before fees are collected, and reconciled against actual spending at the end of the season.

Every coach and volunteer passes a criminal background check
Every coach completes Michigan's required concussion training
Two adults are present at every practice — no adult is ever alone with a player
Coaches communicate through parents, never privately with players
The club carries general liability, excess liability, and participant accident coverage
We're a registered USSSA member organization and play in the North Oakland Baseball Federation

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Our coaches

Every adult in our dugout has passed a criminal background check and completed Michigan's required concussion training. All three have signed the club's coaching standards, including the commitment to honor written playing-time minimums even when it costs us a game.

Byron Hazely

Head coach

Byron grew up in Port Huron and graduated from Port Huron Northern in 2005, where he was a three-sport varsity athlete and a member of the National Honor Society. He went on to play baseball at Adrian College, graduating in 2009.

He has been coaching since 2011 and has worked with players at every level from T-ball through varsity. He has lived in Washington Township since 2018 with his wife and their three children.

Josh Maggetti

Assistant coach

Josh brings more than twenty years of coaching to the dugout alongside a twenty-three-year career in education. A lifelong athlete, he played football, basketball, and baseball in high school and has stayed around the game ever since.

Two decades in a classroom is a useful thing to have on a 10U field — a lot of coaching at this age is really just teaching.

Dan Madden

Assistant coach

Dan is from Armada and graduated from Almont High School, where he played four years of baseball before a year at Macomb Community College. He has played the game his whole life.

He started coaching when his sons began T-ball and has coached them every season since — five years and counting.

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Sponsor the Anvils

Sponsorships pay for indoor practice time through a Michigan winter and keep the cost to families down. Your business goes on our banner and on this site, and a dozen families in Washington Township know who backed them.

Where sponsorship money goes

Winter facility time is the single largest cost this club carries, and there is no cheap version of it in Michigan. Sponsorship dollars go there first, then to equipment and tournament entry. No coach or board member is paid, and the full budget is published to every family.

The Anvils are a Michigan nonprofit corporation with an application for 501(c)(3) recognition pending. Once that recognition is granted, sponsor contributions may be tax-deductible — we'll confirm the specifics with you directly.

What sponsors get

Your business name or logo on the team banner at every home game and tournament, a listing on this website, and recognition in our season communications to families.

How to start

Email us and we'll send the sponsorship levels along with the club's budget so you can see exactly what your contribution pays for.

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Get in touch

Questions about the program, a roster spot, or sponsorship — write to us and we'll answer.

info@washingtonanvils.com

Playing for the Anvils

Roster spots are limited and we fill them carefully. Tell us your son's age and a bit about him, and we'll be in touch about the current season or the next one.

We'll walk you through the season budget line by line before you commit to anything. Cost should never be the reason a kid doesn't play — if fees are a barrier for your family, tell us confidentially and we'll work it out.

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Washington Anvils Baseball Club

10U travel baseball
Washington Township, Michigan

North Oakland Baseball Federation
Registered USSSA member organization

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