PONY Baseball

PONY stands for Protect Our Nation's Youth. The concept for the name originally came from boys at the local YMCA in Washington, Pennsylvania and stood for "Protect Our Neighborhood Youth," but change  in the early 1950's (when PONY became a national organization) from "Neighborhood" to "Nation's."

Check out the history of Pony Baseball.

For the most part Pony Baseball uses two year age brackets. Traditionally it goes like this...

Shetland- 4-6yr olds

Pinto- 7-8yr olds

Mustang- 9-10yr olds

Bronco- 11-12yr olds

PONY- 13-14yr olds

Colt- 15-16yr olds

Palomino- 17-18yr olds (+ three 19yr olds)

Check out this video that explains how the divisions work.