Many youth baseball leagues are organized roughly along the same lines as the Major Leagues.

The kids baseball teams will be organized into "Systems" each of which has one or more levels of "farm teams" (younger players.)

The "Yankees" system, for example, may be composed of the single-A (youngest) Yankees team, the double-a Yankees team, possibly even a triple-A Yankees team and the "Majors" Yankees team, composed of the best (and usually the oldest) players in the system. Each system has a system manager, who also usually manages the Majors team, and who selects the managers of the single-A, double-A, and triple-A teams in his system. Players may be moved up to a higher team, or sent down to a lower one ( all within the same system), at any time. Players can also be traded between systems.

On tryout day, new players are selected by the managers and assigned to one of the teams in the system. Players may be traded, but not "fired." Players can ask to be traded to another team, but these requests are usually denied, with no appeal system.

On each team, the manager selects a few volunteer coaches to help him out. "Selects" is a relative term. Most managers will gratefully accept any help they can get.

Each team has a "team mother" that takes care of administrative matters.

The kids baseball league officials select the system managers, and manage the league. It is a lot of work and responsibility for no pay.