What is the Mustang Division: The Mustang Division is more competitive and begins the players' training in the complete game of baseball. Includes most rules of play including 100% kid pitching, leading off, base stealing, and dropped strike three rule. Practice will begin in early March and teams will play about a 20 game schedule with an end of the season tournament in early June. Limited local inter-league play. All-star season for 9U/10U continues through July.
Bases are 60'
Pitching Mound is 46'
MUSTANG 10U™ LEAGUE begins PONY Baseball belief that rather than change the rules of Baseball to make it possible for young people to play the game, it is more logical to change the size of the diamonds, to adjust them to the physical potential of the players.
Use of diamonds matched to their capabilities permits younger players to play in the same proportionate position as the Major Leaguers and to make the same plays as a Major Leaguer. The double play, the squeeze play, the force play, etc. all become probabilities instead of remote possibilities.
Beginning with MUSTANG 10U™ LEAGUE Baseball, the players are playing real baseball in accordance with The Rules of Major League Baseball as well as specific PONY rules that are in place to supersede the MLB rules where appropriate such as pitching, substitution, re-entry, etc. With scaled down bases and pitching distances, players react quite favorably to the greater challenge of the game and have little difficulty mastering the transition.