Effective Date: October 5, 2026
Welcome to Know The Pitch. These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of KnowThePitch.com and the information, features, reviews, resources, forms, promotions, and other services made available through the website.
By accessing or using Know The Pitch, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to these Terms of Use.
If you do not agree with these Terms, please do not use the website.
1. About Know The Pitch
Know The Pitch is an independent informational resource designed to help families research travel baseball and softball organizations, programs, facilities, tryouts, tournaments, and related youth sports topics.
Know The Pitch is not a travel baseball or softball organization, league, governing body, recruiting service, coaching organization, or professional advisory service unless expressly stated otherwise.
2. Informational Purpose
Content on Know The Pitch is provided for general informational and research purposes.
Organization profiles, articles, reviews, directories, comparisons, and other information are intended to help families conduct their own research. They should not be treated as a substitute for directly communicating with an organization or independently verifying information before making financial, athletic, travel, recruiting, or other decisions.
3. Accuracy of Information
We strive to provide useful and accurate information, but Know The Pitch does not guarantee that all information is complete, current, accurate, or error-free.
Youth sports organizations may change information at any time, including:
- Coaching staff
- Team availability
- Age groups
- Fees and costs
- Facilities
- Tryout dates and procedures
- Travel expectations
- Tournament schedules
- Program structure
- Policies
- Recruiting opportunities
- Contact information
Users should verify important information directly with the applicable organization before making decisions.
Know The Pitch welcomes corrections and updates when information is outdated or inaccurate.
4. Independent Website
Know The Pitch is an independent informational website.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Know The Pitch is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, operated by, or officially connected to any baseball or softball organization, team, league, tournament operator, facility, coach, instructor, governing body, or other entity listed or discussed on the website.
The inclusion of an organization or other entity on Know The Pitch does not constitute an endorsement, recommendation, certification, or guarantee.
5. Organization Profiles
Organization profiles may be created using:
- Organization websites
- Social media pages
- Publicly available information
- Tournament and league websites
- Information provided directly by organizations
- Other sources reasonably believed to be useful or reliable
Know The Pitch may summarize, organize, or present this information for research purposes.
Organizations may contact Know The Pitch to request factual corrections or updates.
Know The Pitch retains editorial control over the structure, presentation, and content of organization profiles.
6. Parent Reviews and User-Submitted Content
Know The Pitch may allow users to submit reviews, ratings, comments, organization suggestions, corrections, or other content.
By submitting content, you represent that:
- The information is truthful to the best of your knowledge.
- Reviews are based on your own firsthand experience or experience for which you have a legitimate basis to comment.
- You will not knowingly submit false or misleading information.
- You will not impersonate another person.
- You will not submit unlawful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or malicious content.
- You will not intentionally disclose sensitive or confidential personal information about players, children, families, coaches, or other individuals.
- Your submission does not violate the intellectual property or other legal rights of another person.
Reviews reflect the opinions and experiences of the individual reviewers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Know The Pitch.
Know The Pitch does not guarantee the accuracy of user-submitted reviews.
7. Review Moderation
Know The Pitch may review, moderate, edit for formatting or clarity, reject, hide, or remove user-submitted content when reasonably necessary.
Reasons may include, but are not limited to:
- Suspected fake or fraudulent reviews
- Reviews not based on firsthand experience
- Personal attacks or harassment
- Defamatory or knowingly false statements
- Spam or promotional content
- Duplicate submissions
- Disclosure of inappropriate personal information
- Content unrelated to the organization being reviewed
- Violations of these Terms or applicable review guidelines
Know The Pitch is not obligated to publish every submission.
8. License to User-Submitted Content
When you submit content to Know The Pitch, you retain ownership of any rights you may have in that content.
You grant Know The Pitch a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, format, publish, and distribute the submitted content in connection with operating, promoting, improving, and presenting Know The Pitch.
This permission allows us, for example, to display a parent review on an organization profile or reference review content elsewhere on Know The Pitch.
We will not publicly display a reviewer’s email address unless the reviewer has explicitly authorized us to do so.
9. Giveaways and Promotions
Know The Pitch may occasionally offer giveaways, contests, sweepstakes, promotions, or similar opportunities.
Individual promotions may be governed by separate Official Rules, eligibility requirements, entry requirements, deadlines, and other conditions.
If the terms of a specific promotion conflict with these general Terms of Use regarding that promotion, the applicable Official Rules will control.
Know The Pitch may disqualify entries that appear fraudulent, automated, duplicated, manipulated, or otherwise inconsistent with the applicable Official Rules.
10. Email Communications
Users may have the option to subscribe to email communications from Know The Pitch.
By subscribing, you consent to receive communications such as:
- New organization profiles
- Parent resources
- Reviews
- Giveaways
- Site updates
- Other related Know The Pitch content
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe option provided in the communication.
11. Privacy
Your use of Know The Pitch is also subject to our Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, shared, retained, and protected when you use the website.
Our use of cookies and similar technologies may also be controlled through the Cookie Settings options available on the website where applicable.
12. Prohibited Conduct
You agree not to use Know The Pitch in a way that interferes with the website, harms other users, violates applicable law, or abuses our services.
Prohibited conduct includes, but is not limited to:
- Submitting knowingly false or fraudulent information
- Posting spam or unauthorized promotional content
- Impersonating another person or organization
- Attempting to gain unauthorized access to the website or its systems
- Introducing malicious software, scripts, or other harmful code
- Attempting to disrupt or overload the website
- Using automated systems in a manner that places unreasonable demands on the website
- Scraping, harvesting, or systematically extracting website content for unauthorized commercial use
- Collecting personal information about other users without authorization
- Using website content in a misleading or unlawful manner
- Violating another person’s intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights
Know The Pitch may restrict access or take other appropriate action when these Terms are violated.
13. Children and Minors
Know The Pitch focuses on youth sports, but the website and its interactive features are intended primarily for parents, guardians, coaches, organizations, and other adults.
Children under 13 should not submit reviews, contact information, giveaway entries, or other personal information through the website without appropriate parent or guardian involvement.
Parents and guardians are responsible for supervising a minor’s use of Know The Pitch.
14. Logos, Trademarks, and Third-Party Intellectual Property
Organization names, logos, trademarks, photographs, and other intellectual property belonging to third parties remain the property of their respective owners.
Know The Pitch may display certain third-party names, logos, or similar materials for identification, commentary, research, directory, or informational purposes.
Such use does not imply ownership, endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation unless expressly stated.
15. Know The Pitch Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise indicated, original Know The Pitch content—including original written content, branding, graphics, website design, research presentation, organization of information, and other original materials—is owned by or licensed to Know The Pitch.
You may view and use the website for personal, non-commercial research purposes.
You may not reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, systematically copy, or commercially exploit substantial portions of original Know The Pitch content without permission, except as otherwise permitted by law.
Normal sharing of links to Know The Pitch pages and reasonable quotations with appropriate attribution are permitted.
16. Third-Party Websites and Services
Know The Pitch may link to third-party websites and services, including:
- Organization websites
- Registration and tryout systems
- Tournament websites
- Social media accounts
- Facilities
- Travel services
- Recruiting resources
- Other external resources
Know The Pitch does not control these third-party websites or services.
We are not responsible for their:
- Content
- Accuracy
- Availability
- Security
- Privacy practices
- Products or services
- Transactions
- Policies or terms
Users should review the applicable terms and privacy policies before providing information or completing transactions with third parties.
17. No Professional Advice
Information on Know The Pitch is not intended to constitute legal, financial, medical, recruiting, athletic-training, coaching, or other professional advice.
Users should use their own judgment and seek appropriate professional guidance when necessary.
18. Limitation of Liability
Use of Know The Pitch and reliance on information available through the website are at your own risk.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, Know The Pitch and its owners, contributors, affiliates, and service providers will not be liable for losses, damages, injuries, costs, or other consequences arising from or related to:
- Reliance on information published on the website
- Errors, omissions, or outdated information
- Participation in organizations, teams, tournaments, tryouts, facilities, programs, or activities
- User-submitted reviews or other content
- Third-party websites or services
- Website interruptions or technical problems
Know The Pitch does not guarantee any particular athletic, recruiting, financial, developmental, or other outcome from using information found on the website.
19. Corrections and Removal Requests
Know The Pitch welcomes factual corrections and updates.
Organizations or individuals who believe information is materially inaccurate may contact us through the Contact page.
Know The Pitch will review reasonable correction requests but retains editorial discretion regarding the content, structure, and presentation of the website.
A request for correction does not automatically require removal of an organization profile, review, or other content that Know The Pitch is legally entitled to publish.
20. Website Availability
We may modify, suspend, discontinue, update, or change portions of Know The Pitch at any time.
We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability of the website or any particular feature.
21. Changes to These Terms
Know The Pitch may update these Terms of Use periodically.
When changes are made, the Effective Date at the top of this page will be updated.
Continued use of Know The Pitch after revised Terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
22. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
23. Contact Information
Questions, concerns, correction requests, or other inquiries regarding these Terms of Use may be submitted through the Know The Pitch Contact page or by email at: