History
During the Summer of 2007, Sam Carpenter, Cade Griffis, and Shayne Currin met for lunch to discuss their fall baseball plans. All three agreed that fall baseball was not what it once was and needed to be changed. After several meetings and several drafts, The DFW Metro Scout League was born and the first pitch thrown in September. After five weeks of very good baseball and the presence of over 60 college coaches and scouts, all 3 men deemed the fall a complete success. At the same coffee shop in the summer of 2008, all 3 men were back to talk about the DFW Metro Scout League second season and how it could improve. During a debate over one thing or another, one of the three mentioned how neat it would be if we could combine the 2 most powerful organizations in the city and play ball as one club, similar to the East Cobb Baseball Club. From that point forward, The DBAT Mustangs Baseball Club was born. All 3 men put issues, egos, and history aside to do something that has been needed in this area for quite some time.
The Dallas Baseball Academy of Texas was founded on November 27, 1998. DBAT has been servicing the North Texas community since 1998 and has grown to its current location on Wright Brothers Drive in Addison, TX. The first baseball team in 1998 featured the son of one of the founders Craig Penfold. An avid baseball fan Craig wanted his son to learn the correct fundamentals of the game and thought Cade Griffis would be the right person to be the coach. It wasn't until 2004 that DBAT made its first trip to the Mickey Mantle World Series; the first 15 year old team in tournament history. That team would later win two Connie Mack South Plains Regional Championships in 2006 and 2007 and participate in the Connie Mack World Series. Since the first graduating DBAT class in 2001 the majority of players have received Division I college baseball scholarships and the organization has produced such professionals as Chance Douglas (Astros), Robert Ray (Dodgers), Jerod Plummer (Dodgers), Clayton Kershaw (Dodgers), Jordon Walden (Angles), Matt Sulentic (A’s), Zach Segovia (Phillies), Brad Furnish (Cardinals) to name a few.
The seminal impetus for what is the Dallas Mustangs Baseball Club came from Pat Rigby, Folsom Bell and Sam Carpenter. Pat and Folsom had coached teams in BBI up through 16U but when those kids turned 17 there were no leagues for them to play in, altho’ there were a number of players who needed a place to play. The only program in town was DPA, comprised of All-Metro players playing in a league with 3 teams from Lake Highlands HS. After some effort, a league of 5 teams was put together in 1986, which included a team called the Mustangs wearing that year’s Montreal Expo caps (the notable circus tent look). A modest record of 29-9 and a fourth place finish in the Connie Mack state tournament was produced that first year. The schedule ramped up the next summer, 1987, to include a total of 80 games and the event that changed the Dallas Mustangs -- a trip to
In their inaugural season of 2009, The DBAT Mustangs fielded over 40 teams in the Spring and Summer of 2009. The club won over a 1,000 games against teams from all over the Southwest region. Another highlight in our first season was winning 4 National Championships and help placing 77 seniors of the class of 09’ into college baseball programs.
