Summer baseball in Waynesboro
The Waynesboro Generals play in the Valley Baseball League, a summer baseball league founded in 1923 that plays in cities and towns in the Shenandoah Valley in Virgina.
The Valley League became an NCAA-sanctioned league in 1961. The league adopted the use of wooden bats in 1993.
The VBL is funded in part by a grant from Major League Baseball and is a member of the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, a national affiliation of summer leagues.
The league has produced well over 1,000 professional baseball players, including a record 79 former players drafted in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in 2008.
The Waynesboro Generals play their home games at Kate Collins Field at Kate Collins Middle School, 1625 Ivy Street, Waynesboro.
A new direction
In 2010, Waynesboro Generals Baseball LLC purchased the team. Led by Jim Critzer and David Gauldin II, the new ownership group is working to reform as a nonprofit under Section 501c(3). Waynesboro Amateur Athletics will operate the team as a not-for-profit entity with the surplus of the organization being redistributed to the community in the form of contributions to local high-school baseball programs.
