Why California’s Alpha Baseball Club Chooses Team.Shop

Alpha Baseball Club, an organization of eight teams based in California, relies on Team.Shop to outfit approximately 150 high school aged players with custom uniforms, training apparel and on-field equipment each year. Jim Sammons, General Manager of Alpha Baseball Club, said Team.Shop’s ability to send orders right to players and parents starkly differs from previous processes for outfitting teams. By allowing players to pay online and send orders directly to families, Team.Shop takes a huge burden off coaches.

“You’ve seen the coach come walking into the tournament with this giant box of uniforms, and that’s literally the worst thing ever on the coaching side,” Sammons said. Team.Shop eliminates that hassle.

You’ve seen the coach come walking into the tournament with this giant box of uniforms, and that’s literally the worst thing ever on the coaching side.

Access to custom EvoShield uniforms in their trademark bold color scheme of sky blue and olive green made turning to Team.Shop an easy decision for Alpha Baseball Club.

“Our calling card is we go pretty hard on the custom uniforms. We think it’s important to the kids and we kind of want to show it off,” Sammons said. “We really wanted to do something big with the uniforms. We went with the baby blue look, and we were hooked. Once we got those mocked up, we were in.”

To prepare for the summer baseball season, Sammons and his staff of more than a dozen coaches open uniform and apparel shops as early as January. Players and their parents select sizes and jersey numbers when placing orders. Throughout the process, Sammons receives daily order reports from Team.Shop to ensure players have purchased everything they need for the year.

“The biggest thing with Team.Shop, for us, is the ease,” Sammons said. “The parents go online, they place their order and it ships directly to them. That’s such a game changer.”

When uniforms arrive, players and parents often have the same ecstatic reaction.

“They love it. Our uniforms are always well received,” Sammons said. “I think it’s important, so we really want to make sure that kids like the uniforms. People are always pumped. The quality is good, so that makes it easy too.”

Players pair their uniforms with branded Alpha Baseball Club EvoShield training apparel from Team.Shop. The organization often opens a second apparel shop during the season, allowing families to purchase fanwear.

Throughout the year, Alpha Baseball Club players have access to a Year Round Team.Shop store containing on-field equipment from EvoShield, DeMarini, Louisville Slugger and Wilson. At any time, players can log in to Team.Shop and purchase batter’s protective gear, baseball bats and Pro Stock® A2K® and A2000® baseball gloves – all available at team exclusive pricing.

“Access to hard goods and stock items is a really nice incentive for our players,” Sammons said.

Nearly all teenage players in Alpha Baseball Club rely on Louisville Slugger and DeMarini BBCOR baseball bats like the Louisville Slugger Select PWR and DeMarini Voodoo One Piece. For wood bat tournaments, the players often choose to swing Maple Louisville Slugger MLB Prime bats.

Whether players and their parents are ordering new uniforms to start the year or picking up an A2000 baseball glove for the summer season, Team.Shop streamlines the ordering process.

“I think it’s just as easy on the parents as it is for the coaches,” Sammons said.

I think it’s just as easy on the parents as it is for the coaches.