"Winter" Ball

The Dubai Little League season begins in November and ends in March. This is the first year that both Bret and Cole will be playing. Bret is in his first year of pitching machine while Cole is in his first year of T-ball. In true Wiseman style, Nick volunteered to coach and will be coaching Bret's team.

At this age the draft does not include try outs so the coaches have access to family name only when choosing players. Since we are new to the league he had no idea which kids to avoid (read: which parents to avoid). Because of that, Nick decided to employ a similar strategy to the one that was so successful in Sugar Land: choose based on ethnic origin of name. In Sugar Land, he drafted as many Hispanic kids as possible surmising that their parents would be more committed to baseball than their neighbors. Here in Dubai, he drafted as many Asians as possible. The end result is 3 Japanese boys, 1 Korean boy, a British boy, a British girl, 2 Arabs, and 4 Americans. So far so good, no soccer players on the team!

The complex is made up of four main fields and 2 small tee ball fields. The fields are very nice and have a great view of the Burj Dubai (a.k.a. the world's tallest building).