Frequently Asked Questions

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE QUAD CITY HEAT YOUTH TRAVEL BASEBALL TEAMS AFFILIATED WITH USSSA

In the summer of 2001, the Quad City Bronco League all-stars were put together to become the first travel team in the Davenport area. The name of the all-star team was the Quad City Heat. They took this image for 2 years until Derek Lingle, at the age of 18, started the first full time Heat travel team that was made up of 7-9 year olds from the Quad City Bronco League. From this team he realized there was a need for this type of baseball in the Davenport area for all aged kids that wanted something better than Little League and for those players that were experienced and talented. A game that would let them play the real game against other good competition to better prepare them for their later years of baseball. The Quad City Heat has been the longest running and first competitive baseball organization in Davenport, Iowa.

During the week from the end of April to the end of June, the Heat plays two games during the week (Monday—Thursday), one game at one of our home fields in Davenport, and the other at the opposing teams home field, mainly in the Quad City Metro area. Occasionally games during the week are played in Muscatine or Clinton as teams are based out of there as well. For most weekend tournaments, the tournaments are played locally but some of our teams have played in tournaments in Des Moines, Chicago, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City just to name a few. Every team plays in the state tournament in Des Moines and may elect to go to nationals.

The teams in our organization are comprised of players from all over. We allow players from both Illinois and Iowa to play on our teams and players have come from as far as Muscatine, Iowa (30 miles) Maquoketa, Iowa (45 miles), Washington, Iowa (75 miles) Geneseo, Illinois (30 Miles), Coleta, Illinois (70 miles), and Morris, Illinois (120 Miles)

As you can see we are not limited to players just from a specific area and may have players from as far away as players and parents are willing to come get the Heat experience.

The Heat plays many different competitive teams from around the area such as the Quad City Hitmen, North Scott Lightning, Quad City A’s, Muscatine Baseball Academy, and the Barnstormer Baseball Club. They also get to play many teams from the surrounding Midwest area at tournaments and teams from all over the nation at the World Series tournament.

If you want to bring in a whole team or just a player you may contact the president of the league with your name and more detailed information or if you would like to join a specific team then e-mail that coach with your detailed information. Or the third way to make it on a team is to join us at our yearly tryouts, held in August. We select the teams after tryouts but are always willing to look at more players and bring in teams to our organization.

We currently have 10 teams in the organization. The teams are ages 7&Under to 14&Under. The ages of the players currently in our organization range from 5years to 14 years of age.

All ages are based as of April 31st, 2011.

The Quad City Heat is based out of Davenport, Iowa. They are proud to be the 1st and longest running competitive baseball organization from Davenport. They will have 3 diamonds in Davenport for the 2011 season, Knights Field, Rexco Field, and Jefferson Ballpark

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