Top Baseball Towns in Bristol County, MA
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 11 towns have won something.
Taunton leads Bristol County, MA, scoring 13.46 on both halves of the game roughly evenly, and not narrowly — Taunton is clear of Seekonk by 3.98 points. 11 towns have won something since 2000.
The top ten in Bristol County, MA are Taunton, Seekonk, Mansfield, North Attleborough, New Bedford, Norton, North Easton, Dighton, Rehoboth and Berkley. Between them they account for 99% of every point scored across the 11 towns on this list.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Berkley is in the top ten on a population of 6,892, while New Bedford has 101,318 to draw on — roughly 15 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Mansfield is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 4 Little League titles and no high school championship since 2000.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Taunton and Seekonk have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Dighton, Rehoboth and Berkley share credit with neighbouring towns for a regional high school. A regional's championship is split evenly between every town it serves rather than going to the town the building happens to sit in.
One caveat worth reading before you argue with the order. The youth half of this score is Little League only, because Little League is the only organisation that publishes a championship archive — every district, section and state champion back to the 1950s. Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth publish nothing below the World Series. 3 towns in Bristol County, MA run Cal Ripken or Babe Ruth ball with no Little League program at all, and they score zero youth points here no matter how much they win. Towns that run both lose the Cal Ripken half the same way. If your league has a record we're missing, tell us and we'll add it.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taunton MA Bristol County | 13.46 | 61,936 | 3 | — | 14 | Taunton High · Taunton East Little League +1 |
| 2 | Seekonk MA Bristol County | 9.48 | 15,912 | 3 | — | 2 | Seekonk High · Seekonk Little League |
| 3 | Mansfield MA Bristol County | 2.42 | 24,077 | — | — | 4 | Mansfield Youth Baseball |
| 4 | North Attleborough MA Bristol County | 1.89 | 31,210 | 1 | — | — | North Attleboro High |
| 5 | New Bedford MA Bristol County | 1.78 | 101,318 | 1 | — | — | Gr New Bedford Vocational Technical |
| 6 | Norton MA Bristol County | 1.19 | 19,392 | 1 | — | — | Norton High |
| 7 | North Easton MA Bristol County | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | Oliver Ames High |
| 8 | Dighton MA Bristol County | 0.84 | 8,275 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School |
| 9 | Rehoboth MA Bristol County | 0.84 | 13,537 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School |
| 10 | Berkley MA Bristol County | 0.47 | 6,892 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Somerset Berkley Regional High School |
| 11 | Somerset MA Bristol County | 0.47 | 18,375 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Somerset Berkley Regional High School |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
10,000–25,000
25,000–75,000
- 1TauntonMA13.46 · 62k
- 2North AttleboroughMA1.89 · 31k
Over 75,000
- 1New BedfordMA1.78 · 101k
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in Massachusetts
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.