IT might not be the World Series but for the players and teams, it's the next best thing.
Baseball is a year-round sport with the summer season competitions run by Cronulla-Sutherland Minor League Baseball Association for seniors and Cronulla Sutherland Junior Baseball Association for juniors.
St George Baseball Association runs the winter competitions and is celebrating its centenary in 2014.
St George Baseball Association assistant secretary Wendy Corey said they had 22 clubs and 64 teams registered last winter season.
Corey is also on the committee for Cronulla-Sutherland Minor League Baseball Association.
And one of the shire-based organisations, Comets Baseball Club, at Jannali, has been hitting home runs since 1981.
Jim Macdonald founded the club 33 years ago.
"Jim has done so much for the club and baseball," Comets player and sixth grade coach Chris Prokop said.
Prokop said the Comets were about providing baseball for juniors and senior players in winter and summer competitions, regardless of a player's ability.
"A lot of parents relish an opportunity to play a sport together with their children," Prokop said.
"We have two father-sons and one father-daughter in our team.
"For many teams and clubs it is a family affair."
Prokop said the club encouraged experienced players join the lower grades and mentor the younger players.
Secretary Scott Collins said in the 2014-15 summer competition they have 15 teams and 160 junior players from under-8s to under-17s and seven teams from first grade to seventh grade in the seniors.
Details: comets.org.au; for senior teams, csmlba.com.au;
for junior teams, csjba.baseball.com.au