The Baseball Circuit

Top Baseball Towns in Hartford County, CT

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. 14 towns have won something.

Bristol leads Hartford County, CT, scoring 8.26 almost entirely on high school titles, though Simsbury is close behind on 7.74. 14 towns have won something since 2000.

The top ten in Hartford County, CT are Bristol, Simsbury, Newington, Southington, Windsor, Farmington, West Hartford, South Windsor, Plainville and Rocky Hill. Between them they account for 89% of every point scored across the 14 towns on this list.

Size is doing a lot of work here. Plainville is in the top ten on a population of 17,757, while West Hartford has 64,184 to draw on — roughly 4 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.

Simsbury is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 9 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. Bristol, Simsbury, Southington and South Windsor have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.

#TownScorePopulationHS titlesLL stateLL districtWon by
1Bristol CT
Hartford County
8.2662,19541St Paul Catholic High School · Bristol Little League
2Simsbury CT
Hartford County
7.7425,3537Simsbury Little League
3Newington CT
Hartford County
5.9931,69216Newington High School · Newington Little League
4Southington CT
Hartford County
4.1644,1973Western Baseball League of Southington
5Windsor CT
Hartford County
3.2629,65812Windsor High School · Windsor Little League
6Farmington CT
Hartford County
2.9928,18913Farmington Little League
7West Hartford CT
Hartford County
2.9364,18421Northwest Catholic High School · West Hartford Little League
8South Windsor CT
Hartford County
2.8327,0621South Windsor High School
9Plainville CT
Hartford County
2.417,7572Plainville High School
10Rocky Hill CT
Hartford County
1.921,37311Rocky Hill High School · Rocky Hill Little League
11Wethersfield CT
Hartford County
1.8927,3721Wethersfield High School
12Windsor Locks CT
Hartford County
1.8412,6432Windsor Locks High School
13Berlin CT
Hartford County
0.8920,6461Berlin High School
14Suffield CT
Hartford County
0.6715,9641Suffield Little League

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

  1. 1PlainvilleCT2.4 · 18k
  2. 2Rocky HillCT1.9 · 21k
  3. 3Windsor LocksCT1.84 · 13k
  4. 4BerlinCT0.89 · 21k
  5. 5SuffieldCT0.67 · 16k

25,000–75,000

  1. 1BristolCT8.26 · 62k
  2. 2SimsburyCT7.74 · 25k
  3. 3NewingtonCT5.99 · 32k
  4. 4SouthingtonCT4.16 · 44k
  5. 5WindsorCT3.26 · 30k
  6. 6FarmingtonCT2.99 · 28k
  7. 7West HartfordCT2.93 · 64k
  8. 8South WindsorCT2.83 · 27k

How this is scored

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.

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By county in Connecticut

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.