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Baseball camps near you

We list baseball camps from across Canada, including camps in the following cities. Links take you to our advanced search, which allows you to discover more options, also. Start with your city below: 

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Baseball camp alternatives

For boys and girls who want to explore their love of baseball in different forums, there are different alternatives available, depending on the time of year and your age. Consider these options: 

Baseball clinics for kids, aka after-school baseball lessons or baseball after-school programs, etc., offer young baseball players a means to grow skills throughout the year. 

Baseball day camps are a good way to dip your toes into the camp experience. 

Overnight baseball camps, sometimes known as baseball academies, dominate the list of intense baseball camps above. Typically summer camps, these offer an intense immersion that helps kids establish and clarify where they need to improve, and where they stand in relation to other players from a broad region. 

More related camps

It can be valuable for young players to branch out into other interests. Here’s a look at some alternative you should explore:

Sports camps offer broad training and variety that can help develop related skills. These are a nice way to break things up and soften up the intensity that comes with one of the top tier baseball camps listed above. 

Sports featured popularly among kids’ camps include the following:

Soccer for kids can help you improve your running, in a sport that's eclipsed baseball in popularity, in recent times.

Cycling kids’ camps help develop leg and stomach muscles.

Swimming camps for kids encourage training in a variety of muscle groups.

Benefits of top baseball camps

Many kids who attend baseball camp aspire to play at the professional level, though camps realistically focus on improving baseball skills at the level campers are at. That said, advanced camps listed at ourkids.net offer elite training that encourages players to study the game with intensity. Many of these camps do things the way the pros do it. Here’s a brief look at skills acquired at ball camps.  

Improvements to defense are offered within the curriculum of some camps listed above, while other camps offer intensive sessions or programming focused specifically on this aspect. Specific curriculum and techniques include: analysis of player’s reaction time, coaching in tracking the ball from all field positions, and improvement of routes to the ball. Not all camps listed above offer these, but those are just some examples of instruction.  

Improvements to hitting include coaching and training that helps hitters with the following: location variation to drive the ball to different areas of the field, measurement and increase of bat speed, analysis of mechanics that may apply technology in some cases, decision-making  like choosing pitches, and improving mental focus at the plate.

Improvements to pitching are also taught variantly as part of a broader curriculum or targeted within specific sessions. Some pitching improvements and training you can acquire at camp includes the following: use of legs and hips, analysis to improve pitching velocity and control, and proper arm care during and after gameplay.

Camps in larger centers like Toronto and Montreal (for example ) will offer intensive training and coaching in areas like those above, and draw topflight talent from a broad area. Not all camps and sessions focus on these advanced techniques, of course. Some programs and sessions are focused more broadly on fundamentals, and likely targeted at young players and novices. 

You learn more than just baseball 

Beyond specific baseball skills, kids reap many other benefits from camp. A brief glimpse at those would include: 

Baseball encourages health, fitness and physical awareness. Through the increased activity at camp, kids improve physical fitness, hand-to-eye coordination, and other awareness of physical space. As part of the curriculum of baseball camps, kids learn incidental aspects of nutrition, fitness, and more. There are many more benefits of sports camps.

Baseball teaches patience and focus. More so than any other sport, baseball requires unique focus. Anything can happen when a pitch is thrown. Complementary to this, there are also unique lessons in patience. There can be long stretches of time where the ball's not in play, and little can happen, in comparison to sports such as soccer or ice hockey. Ball players, though, grow their awareness of what's around them, when watching for the steal or other subtleties of the game.  

Unique social opportunity. Kids make new friends, get away from screens, and improve social skills at camp. They find themselves in unique situations not possible anywhere else (certainly not on the couch at home). At baseball camp, they meet and compete with fellow baseball lovers from their area and elsewhere. Baseball’s teamwork is unique among sports.  

Increased independence and self-confidence. Away from the shelter of home and parents, kids make decisions and face obstacles on their own. Many kids come home from their first camp experience with a strong belief that they can and want to  do more things on their own. These are part of the benefits kids get from any camp experience.

How do I find the best baseball camp?

It starts with asking the right questions, after you’ve looked at all the camp options near you. Many premier baseball summer camps exhibit at the Our Kids Camp Expo. There, you can meet camps face to face and ask pertinent questions like the following: 

• What qualifications and experience do instructors have? 
• What success stories can they tell you about? 
• How does the camp protect players’ safety? 
• What is the ratio of instructors to campers, and how much one-to-one instruction and coaching is available for kids? 
• What happens in case of an injury or other medical emergency? 
• What is the camp’s policy in dealing with bullying or even criticism between campers? 
• How much free time or play does the camp allow, and how much time is spent focused on baseball skills and drills? 
• Can the camp provide you with references or testimonials? 
• What is the camp’s policy toward electronics use? 

Download a PDF of 14 questions to ask camps

More advice from OurKids.net:

Sources and further reading

Why Youth Baseball is Great For Your Kids

Why Kids Need Baseball Now More Than Ever

Baseball Safety Tips

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Baseball summer camps are there?
There are 19 programs offering baseball/softball as an activity. Use the filters to narrow by age and program type, then click on matched programs to see daily activities, dates, rates and registration information.

What are the fees to attend Baseball summer camps?
Fees for programs offering baseball/softball as an activity range from $65 to $5,835 per program (program types and lengths vary). Use the filters here to narrow programs by age and type.

Where can parents meet with Baseball summer camps?
Meet with program directors and staff at the Our Kids Camp & Program Expo. The Expo is held annually in February, and is a fun and informative day for parents, kids, and teens. Find event details and free tickets here.