Santa cruised through the Stanley Park area on Saturday, December 19

Our Optimist Club, in conjunction with the Stanley Park Community Association, was pleased to be able to bring Santa to the Stanley Park area on Saturday Dec. 19. Club President Mark Kerr and Vice-President Carole Kerr filled star roles as "Santa and Mrs. Claus Came to Town". They rode in a horse drawn carriage around the streets of Stanley Park wishing residents a "Merry Christmas".  (See photos of the event) Next year, hopefully there'll be a full-fledged parade again! In the meantime, have a Merry Christmas and stay safe!

 CTV News broadcast of Santa's tour

May 2021 be better --- make that, BETTER --- MUCH BETTER --- than 2021.

Take care, stay safe, and get ready to play ball!

Welcome to Stanley Park Optimist Ball!

SORRY, OUR 2020 SEASON WAS CANCELLED.

STAY SAFE --- WE WANT YOU TO PLAY WITH US IN 2021...

and WE'RE GETTING THINGS READY FOR PLAY WHEN THIS AREA IS "GREEN".

Welcome to our new Stanley Park website!  This website gives us the ability to communicate better with everyone in the organization and all our ball teams and participants. We hope you'll be as excited as we are over this undertaking and use it to keep informed about your team and in contact with your team-mates. There's a mobile app as well! 

Your contributions - photos, articles, news, etc. are all welcome and solicited. Work with your team's representatives: coaches & web-admin volunteers to keep in touch and record some history.  

Since the mid-70s, there has been T-Ball in Stanley Park (except during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020).  Since taking over the responsibility for running it, it's been one of The Optimist Club of Stanley Park's major programs --- and still is! Our Ball Program has branched out to our current offering which includes Blastball, two levels of T-Ball and two levels of 3-Pitch.  Each league is based on age with an overlapping year at the upper & lower ends of the age bracket to accommodate players of different skill levels, interest, maturity, etc.  All play is co-ed at the recreational level. Information on each league is available on this website. There are also numerous articles and tips for players, parents, coaches and officials. Please browse the site and then, hopefully you're interested in joining us, you can register online! We plan to open registration for our 2021 season for play under safety restrictions  ... when conditions are safe to do so.. 

For information on our 2020 season's Blastball, T-Ball and 3-Pitch leagues - and on-line registration access -   please click here.

In 2019, we had 45 teams involving over 520 players, 130 to 170 coaches (& assistants), numerous additional volunteers and 37 umpires & scorekeepers to keep things organized. We hope you'll want to be involved.  The Covid-19 Pandemic forced us to cancel our 2020 season but we plan to be back in 2021 --- we're already getting ready!