The Michigan Shamrocks are an expirenced and firmly established travel baseball and softball organization. Over the years, this experience has shaped our program and our philosophy. The main tenants of which, are Leadership, Challenge, Compete, and Learn.
Leadership is expected across the entire Shamrocks organization. From our Board of Directors, to our Coaches, Players and families. On and off the field. Shamrocks is not about individual players. We are a community. It takes leadership and support from all of us to succeed. It is central to everything we do.
Shamrocks teaches life skills through the sport of baseball. Baseball is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up, depends on what you're made of. We will challenge our players and find out.
We teach our players that we play to win. Always. If we are in a situation where we are not winning, then we shift to refusing to lose. Either way, we will compete!
The primary purpose of our program is to teach. Shamrock Players will learn leadership. They will learn the lessons that come from being challenged. They will learn the lessons that come from competing. They will learn life through baseball and grow to be outstanding adults.
Every year I am asked this one question: Coach why do you schedule practice every Sunday? Simple answer is, we practice how we play. Everybody plays on Saturday but, only the best play on Sunday. Get used to it.
Coach Caley founded and dedicated 26 years to building the Shamrocks organization. His selfless work has provided for thousands of youth athletes. Pushing them to be the very best they can be. Teaching them how to set goals, work and acheive. How to fight through adversity and never give up. He is reponsible for developing some of the best athletes in the area and preparing them to play competetively into High School, College and in some cases, professionally. He has since retired but the foundation he built the Shamrocks on will continue to be embedded in the core of the organization and remain at the forefront of everything we do.