Testimonials

My wife and I searched for years to find a baseball program that would help our son become the best player he could be. We traveled to the professional sponsored US camps where we achieved some success but it wasn’t sustainable and the cost was huge. Luckily, we discovered Darren Doucette Baseball in 2014, and the rest is history. The improvements in technical ability, game play and baseball knowledge is off the charts, but the most exciting thing is seeing our son’s renewed love of the game. We have absolute confidence saying that putting our son in The Darren Doucette Baseball Academy is without a doubt the best thing we have ever done for him!!!
We can’t wait for the 2015-16 program to begin, we’ll be the first ones there!

1ST TEAM ALL AMERICAN 1B , 1ST PLAYER TO HAVE BASEBALL NUMBER RETIRED FROM ULSTER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1ST PLAYER DRAFTED FROM ULSTER! WHY ? HARD WORK AND DEDICATION . HE HAS “THE WANT TO” ON THE BASEBALL FIELD. I WOULD BE THE 1ST IN LINE TO HAVE MY SON LEARN HOW TO HIT FROM THE BIG DOG DEWEY.”

Every athlete has a story and Darren Doucette is proud of his. “I left here in ’92 and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals,” says Doucette. Doucette learned early in life he could hit a baseball long distances and from the fields of Dartmouth, he chased his professional baseball dream for seven years. “Pay cheques weren’t very big, but getting paid to do something you love is always great,” says Doucette. When the dream died, he returned home and signed with the Dartmouth Dry Senior Baseball Team. He now takes pride in his ability to coach. “It’s a great feeling,” says Doucette. These days, Doucette is coaching the children of Jays Care. “It’s a foundation that was started by the Toronto Blue Jays a number of years ago,” says Doucette. The Jays Care Foundation runs winter baseball development programs in several cities across the country. The age range of the players runs from four to six years old. Some are being introduced to a game they otherwise couldn’t afford to play. “Especially in this area of Dartmouth, there’s a lot of good young athletes that never get into sport at all. We’re at least happy to present them with a glove and bat,” says Doucette. “I grew up in this area. I saw some great athletes that I grew up with that never had a chance to play.” If all goes as planned, the players will fall in love with baseball the way Doucette did when he was a boy. It is also a chance to further grow the game, in what is already a thriving baseball community. “It just sort of makes me feel happy because more people could enjoy the game of baseball,” says camp player Ty Doucette. The kids are learning baseball basics. “He makes us do throwing practices and makes us run around the whole rectangle,” says camp player Ayres Perry. Learning the fundamentals of a game, that is being made more accessible thanks to a big league team, with a coast to coast community minded approach. With files from CTV Atlantic’s Paul Hollingsworth.