How LeagueApps Helps Ripken Baseball Scale “The Ripken Way”
After an illustrious 21-year Hall of Fame career with the Baltimore Orioles, Cal Ripken, Jr. founded Ripken Baseball with his younger brother and former Orioles teammate, Bill Ripken. Established in 2001 in their hometown of Aberdeen, Maryland—and built to honor the legend and spirit of their father, Cal Ripken, Sr.—Ripken Baseball provides youth baseball players with the opportunity to learn and compete on fields modeled after major league ones, including Orioles Park at Camden Yards.
The Ripken Way
Ripken Baseball offers tournaments, camps, spring training, and more at their state-of-the-art facilities in Aberdeen, Pigeon Forge (Tennessee), and Myrtle Beach (South Carolina). At all Ripken events, youth athletes learn about leadership, sportsmanship, work ethic, personal responsibility, and healthy living. They learn to do things the right way on and off the field—they learn to play The Ripken Way.
A Website that Promotes the Ripken Brand
Brand-First Web Design
LeagueApps Design Shop, our in-house design team, created a website for Ripken Baseball that highlights its unique brand and shows potential customers what The Ripken Way is all about. Powered by user-friendly WordPress, the site is easy to update as Ripken continues to grow and evolve.
Customer Support for a Seamless Website Launch
Ripken Baseball operates events and facilities year-round, meaning there was no opportune time to transition to a new website. The LeagueApps customer success team worked side by side with the Ripken team to make the transition easy and manageable—providing quick response times and highly-personalized support.
A Website that Promotes Registration
With three locations and a variety of programming at each location, Ripken needed a website that would allow customers to easily find what they were looking for. Our Design Shop helped the Ripken team create a website that attracts new customers and puts their registration front and center.
Tools for Creating a Top-Notch Customer Experience
Easy Sign-Ups
With multiple programs operating all at once, Ripken has hundreds of athletes registering at the same time—creating a lot of complicated paperwork. LeagueApps helps Ripken create a seamless registration experience for customers on the front end while collecting all the data, waivers, and forms they need on the back end.
Seamless Communications
Ripken Baseball is in contact with customers months before, during, and after an event to ensure participants have a top-notch experience at their facilities. From messaging tools to a mobile app for team communication, Leagueapps helps Ripken streamline communications around registration, schedules, event updates, and more.
Scheduling Made Simple
Before LeagueApps, Ripken admins spent hours scheduling games, camps, spring training, and more across their three locations. Our robust suite of scheduling tools makes it easy for admins to schedule events, manage facilities, create brackets, and share key information with participants. The result: hours of manual work saved.
A Platform that Supports Growth
Registration that Scales
Ripken was looking for a technology partner that would help them create repeatable, scalable processes across all operations. With LeagueApps, Ripken admins are able to clone tournament and event registration—saving them time on program setup and ensuring they can launch new products with ease.
Messaging Tools that Supercharge Growth
Quality communication is a core part of the Ripken experience and the Ripken brand. With tools such as email templates, automated reminders, and targeted, bulk messaging, LeagueApps helps Ripken Baseball keep its growing customer base informed and engaged with the Ripken brand as they continue to expand.
Eye-Opening Reporting
LeagueApps provides Ripken Baseball with best-in-class reporting tools so they can make better data-driven decisions about how and where to grow their organization. Ripken admins can pull detailed reports on member data, attendance, payments, and more—and benefit from a customizable dashboard where they can get important information at a glance.
