Bay Area Ballplayers
Ballplayers Sports Training Facility, 1460 Moraga Rd Suite H, Suite H, Moraga, CA 94556
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Bay Area Ballplayers offers sports training that includes summer classes, private lessons, drop-in classes, athlete performance training, camps, and clinics. Athletes can take part in baseball hitting, pitching, and defense instruction; softball coaching for hitting, pitching, defense, and catching; lacrosse speed and agility training; water polo throwing motion training; and strength, speed, and sport skills training.
• Schedule: School-year hours run Monday–Thursday 2:30pm–8:30pm, Friday 2:30pm–6:00pm, Saturday 10:00am–2:00pm, and Sunday 10:00am–2:00pm by appointment, with summer hours Monday–Thursday 10:00am–6:00pm, Friday 10:00am–4:00pm, Saturday 10:00am–3:00pm, and Sunday by appointment only; summer classes run from 6/1 to 8/11.
Bay Area Ballplayers opened in January 2019, and its Ballplayer Academy AAU 501c3 nonprofit baseball development program was founded in April 2020. The program is led by owner Steve Hammond, who is also the current head varsity baseball coach at Miramonte High School. Summer classes are limited to 6 athletes in each class, and the program includes Ballplayer Academy as a non-profit baseball development program and Lady Ballplayers as a travel softball program with competitive 10U and 12U teams. The staff includes a Certified Speed & Agility Coach through the National Sports Performance Association, a Certified Personal Trainer, a professional baseball player under contract for 2025 with the Florence Y’alls of the Frontier League with previous experience with the San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins, UCSB Baseball alumni who earned Freshman Player of the Year, athletes with college baseball experience at Solano College, Canada College, Lycoming College, and Youngstown State, a preschool teacher completing a BA in Childhood Education, a 2008 Marymount University graduate, a former brand manager for Maxallure Skateboards, a former skateboarding coach at Kids That Rip, and a winner of the Lone Star Sevens Championship for rugby. Staff and athletes connected to the program hold credentials and awards that include All-American honors all four years at Miramonte, a medal with LAMO at Junior Olympics, two NCS championships with Miramonte, and Bay Counties League Pitcher of the Year as a junior in 2023 and as a senior in 2024. The program states that its goal is to provide a positive and encouraging experience, to help athletes build strength, speed, and sport skills, and to instill character, discipline, and responsibility, and it describes its aim to be each athlete’s biggest supporter and to develop relationships that last many years. Bay Area Ballplayers also invites families to keep up with sports-related information in Lamorinda and the East Bay through its email list. One testimonial notes that Steve Hammond helped an athlete gain confidence to perform at a high level and assisted in the recruitment process to play top-level Division 1 baseball.
Last updated June 29, 2026.
• Schedule: School-year hours run Monday–Thursday 2:30pm–8:30pm, Friday 2:30pm–6:00pm, Saturday 10:00am–2:00pm, and Sunday 10:00am–2:00pm by appointment, with summer hours Monday–Thursday 10:00am–6:00pm, Friday 10:00am–4:00pm, Saturday 10:00am–3:00pm, and Sunday by appointment only; summer classes run from 6/1 to 8/11.
Bay Area Ballplayers opened in January 2019, and its Ballplayer Academy AAU 501c3 nonprofit baseball development program was founded in April 2020. The program is led by owner Steve Hammond, who is also the current head varsity baseball coach at Miramonte High School. Summer classes are limited to 6 athletes in each class, and the program includes Ballplayer Academy as a non-profit baseball development program and Lady Ballplayers as a travel softball program with competitive 10U and 12U teams. The staff includes a Certified Speed & Agility Coach through the National Sports Performance Association, a Certified Personal Trainer, a professional baseball player under contract for 2025 with the Florence Y’alls of the Frontier League with previous experience with the San Francisco Giants and Minnesota Twins, UCSB Baseball alumni who earned Freshman Player of the Year, athletes with college baseball experience at Solano College, Canada College, Lycoming College, and Youngstown State, a preschool teacher completing a BA in Childhood Education, a 2008 Marymount University graduate, a former brand manager for Maxallure Skateboards, a former skateboarding coach at Kids That Rip, and a winner of the Lone Star Sevens Championship for rugby. Staff and athletes connected to the program hold credentials and awards that include All-American honors all four years at Miramonte, a medal with LAMO at Junior Olympics, two NCS championships with Miramonte, and Bay Counties League Pitcher of the Year as a junior in 2023 and as a senior in 2024. The program states that its goal is to provide a positive and encouraging experience, to help athletes build strength, speed, and sport skills, and to instill character, discipline, and responsibility, and it describes its aim to be each athlete’s biggest supporter and to develop relationships that last many years. Bay Area Ballplayers also invites families to keep up with sports-related information in Lamorinda and the East Bay through its email list. One testimonial notes that Steve Hammond helped an athlete gain confidence to perform at a high level and assisted in the recruitment process to play top-level Division 1 baseball.
Last updated June 29, 2026.
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