The 80th Annual State of Hawaii AJA Baseball Championship Tournament will be held April 4 –5, 2015 at Ichiro “Iron” Maehara Stadium, hosted by the Maui AJA Baseball Association. The Kauai AJA Baseball Association returns to defend its 1st Championship since 1982 and win its first ever 2nd consecutive Championship.
The Hawaii State AJA Baseball Association is made up of AJA baseball leagues from each major island. The Kalaheo Farmers will represent the Kauai AJA Baseball League, the defending 2014 State AJA Champions. The Keaukaha Warriors of the Hawaii AJA Memorial Baseball League represents Hawaii (Big Island). The Oahu AJA Baseball Association is represented by Waipahu. Happy Hour of the Maui AJA Baseball League represents Maui as the host of 2014 State AJA Baseball Championship Tournament.
AJA Baseball in Hawaii begins its 111th year of play starting December 2014. The Big Island, Maui, Oahu and Kauai will each crown its own island’s 2014-15 regular season champion who will then compete in the annual State of Hawaii AJA Baseball Championship Tournament. The State AJA Tournament rotates among the four islands with the Maui AJA Baseball Association hosting in 2015 welcoming its neighbor island competitors.
Formed in 1930 for the purpose of unifying the AJA Baseball leagues throughout Hawaii to determine a State Champion, the Hawaii State AJA Baseball Association continues to crown a State Champion every year since 1930 till the present, except for five years (1942-47) during World War II. Kauai is the defending Champion.
Each island’s league is run entirely by volunteers dedicated to perpetuate the century old AJA baseball legacy passed on to them by men before them. This “giri” for those volunteers and those that will follow and of the AJA ballplayers who play now, in the future and the past, makes this league different from any league.