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The EJ Sports Elite Baseball Program includes baseball development teams, travel teams, and year round baseball clinics and leagues. Participants can take part in clinics, in-season training and development programs for leagues and youth organizations, private groups, team and individual instruction, private lessons, workshops and seminars, and international baseball opportunities. The program also includes a fitness component for all players to improve core strength, flexibility and build endurance.
• Ages: 11–18 years old
The EJ Sports Elite Baseball Program is founded on the core principles of College Baseball Development, and each team has a strategy to help each player strive to play college baseball. The program focuses on techniques and game situations that are needed to help earn promotion to the next level, and each player focuses on strengths while working to shore up any weakness so it does not hinder strengths in game play. The program advocates for each player to be a student athlete with emphasis on academics and works with multiple resources to support a transition to the next level of academics and athletics, with the stated aim of improving athleticism, motivating continuation for academics, reducing injury and increasing competitive edge in game situations.
EJ Sports has six baseball club teams ranging from 6th grade to 12th grade, and the EJ Sports Pacific Coast Stars is an international traveling baseball team in the age groups 11–12 and 14–16 years old. Teams have traveled to Beijing, China for the International Youth and Boys Friendship Baseball Championships, an International Baseball Tournament sponsored by the Beijing International Sports Exchange Center, and have also traveled to Seoul, Korea and Australia to play in various baseball exhibitions. The USA NTIS (National Team Identification Series) developmental program for 16u and 17u players plays at the USA Baseball Complex each August to see who gets invites to the National team tryouts each year.
The program is led by founders and owners Erik Johnson and Suzette Mariel, with Erik Johnson serving as President and General Manager of EJ Sports, LLC and as Managing Partner in All Pro Baseball. Erik Johnson is a Tri-Valley native who played in the 1978 Little League World Series and the 1981 Senior League World Series for San Ramon Valley Little League, with his team finishing as runner-up in the World Championship game each time. He lettered in baseball and basketball at De La Salle High School in Concord, California, and as a senior was selected for the first team of the All-CAL League, All East Bay and All Northern CA Baseball Teams. He attended U.C. Santa Barbara on an athletic scholarship while majoring in Business Economics, was chosen All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association from his sophomore through senior seasons, named All-District 3 his senior year, and was named Pre-Season All American Athlete before both his junior and senior seasons. He was selected during his sophomore season to play on Team USA in international competition, was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1986 MLB Draft and by the San Francisco Giants in the 18th round of the 1987 MLB Draft, and played professional baseball for 10 years as an infielder, including Major League time in 1993 and 1994 with the San Francisco Giants organization. His professional career also included playing in the Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale Scorpions in 1993, playing for the Texas Rangers and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations in 1995, and playing for the Florida Marlins organization in 1996 before retiring from professional baseball in 1997.
Erik Johnson was awarded “Minor League Player of the Month” in both April and May 1995 by the Pittsburgh Pirates Organization, received the Topps Baseball Card Company “Minor League Player of the Month Award” in July 1995, and made the National League Triple A All-Star team in 1995, where he was selected to start at shortstop. He was inducted into the University of California at Santa Barbara Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in February 1998, the San Ramon Valley Little League Hall of Fame in March 1999, and the Tri-Valley Sports Hall of Fame in February 2002, and he was named Volunteer of the Year for 2006 by the Town of Danville, California; he will be inducted into the De La Salle High School Hall of Fame in May 2007. Erik has coached the EJ Sports Pacific Coast Stars since 1998, has done over 1000 coaching clinic presentations from youth to professional coaches, and his coaching clinic group All Pro Baseball has been speaking to coaches throughout the USA for 28 years. He has been coaching in the USA NTIS Program since its inception in 2008, does all the coaching training for the San Francisco Giants Jr Giants Program that has over 24,000 players throughout California, Oregon and Nevada, and has written a book titled “Drills and Instruction for Coaching Youth Baseball.” Erik Johnson was recognized by the Town of Danville, California as Volunteer of the Year for 2006 for his contributions to youth development and community support.
Last updated May 16, 2026.
• Ages: 11–18 years old
The EJ Sports Elite Baseball Program is founded on the core principles of College Baseball Development, and each team has a strategy to help each player strive to play college baseball. The program focuses on techniques and game situations that are needed to help earn promotion to the next level, and each player focuses on strengths while working to shore up any weakness so it does not hinder strengths in game play. The program advocates for each player to be a student athlete with emphasis on academics and works with multiple resources to support a transition to the next level of academics and athletics, with the stated aim of improving athleticism, motivating continuation for academics, reducing injury and increasing competitive edge in game situations.
EJ Sports has six baseball club teams ranging from 6th grade to 12th grade, and the EJ Sports Pacific Coast Stars is an international traveling baseball team in the age groups 11–12 and 14–16 years old. Teams have traveled to Beijing, China for the International Youth and Boys Friendship Baseball Championships, an International Baseball Tournament sponsored by the Beijing International Sports Exchange Center, and have also traveled to Seoul, Korea and Australia to play in various baseball exhibitions. The USA NTIS (National Team Identification Series) developmental program for 16u and 17u players plays at the USA Baseball Complex each August to see who gets invites to the National team tryouts each year.
The program is led by founders and owners Erik Johnson and Suzette Mariel, with Erik Johnson serving as President and General Manager of EJ Sports, LLC and as Managing Partner in All Pro Baseball. Erik Johnson is a Tri-Valley native who played in the 1978 Little League World Series and the 1981 Senior League World Series for San Ramon Valley Little League, with his team finishing as runner-up in the World Championship game each time. He lettered in baseball and basketball at De La Salle High School in Concord, California, and as a senior was selected for the first team of the All-CAL League, All East Bay and All Northern CA Baseball Teams. He attended U.C. Santa Barbara on an athletic scholarship while majoring in Business Economics, was chosen All-Pacific Coast Athletic Association from his sophomore through senior seasons, named All-District 3 his senior year, and was named Pre-Season All American Athlete before both his junior and senior seasons. He was selected during his sophomore season to play on Team USA in international competition, was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1986 MLB Draft and by the San Francisco Giants in the 18th round of the 1987 MLB Draft, and played professional baseball for 10 years as an infielder, including Major League time in 1993 and 1994 with the San Francisco Giants organization. His professional career also included playing in the Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale Scorpions in 1993, playing for the Texas Rangers and Pittsburgh Pirates organizations in 1995, and playing for the Florida Marlins organization in 1996 before retiring from professional baseball in 1997.
Erik Johnson was awarded “Minor League Player of the Month” in both April and May 1995 by the Pittsburgh Pirates Organization, received the Topps Baseball Card Company “Minor League Player of the Month Award” in July 1995, and made the National League Triple A All-Star team in 1995, where he was selected to start at shortstop. He was inducted into the University of California at Santa Barbara Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in February 1998, the San Ramon Valley Little League Hall of Fame in March 1999, and the Tri-Valley Sports Hall of Fame in February 2002, and he was named Volunteer of the Year for 2006 by the Town of Danville, California; he will be inducted into the De La Salle High School Hall of Fame in May 2007. Erik has coached the EJ Sports Pacific Coast Stars since 1998, has done over 1000 coaching clinic presentations from youth to professional coaches, and his coaching clinic group All Pro Baseball has been speaking to coaches throughout the USA for 28 years. He has been coaching in the USA NTIS Program since its inception in 2008, does all the coaching training for the San Francisco Giants Jr Giants Program that has over 24,000 players throughout California, Oregon and Nevada, and has written a book titled “Drills and Instruction for Coaching Youth Baseball.” Erik Johnson was recognized by the Town of Danville, California as Volunteer of the Year for 2006 for his contributions to youth development and community support.
Last updated May 16, 2026.
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