Top Baseball Towns in Middlesex 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. 24 towns have won something.
Newton leads Middlesex County, MA, scoring 6.38 almost entirely on youth titles, though Melrose is close behind on 4.75. 24 towns have won something since 2000.
The top ten in Middlesex County, MA are Newton, Melrose, North Reading, Everett, Medford, North Chelmsford, Woburn, Wakefield, Hopkinton and Lincoln. Between them they account for 70% of every point scored across the 24 towns on this list.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Lincoln is in the top ten on a population of 6,996, while Newton has 90,700 to draw on — roughly 13 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.
Newton is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 11 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. Melrose, North Reading, North Chelmsford and Wakefield have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Lincoln shares 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. 14 towns in Middlesex 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 | Newton MA Middlesex County | 6.38 | 90,700 | — | 2 | 9 | Newton Southeast Little League · Newton Little League |
| 2 | Melrose MA Middlesex County | 4.75 | 29,938 | — | — | 6 | Melrose Little League |
| 3 | North Reading MA Middlesex County | 4.4 | 16,379 | 2 | — | 1 | North Reading High · North Reading Little League |
| 4 | Everett MA Middlesex County | 2.9 | 51,825 | — | — | 7 | Everett Little League |
| 5 | Medford MA Middlesex County | 2.88 | 59,898 | — | — | 8 | Medford National Little League · North Medford Little League |
| 6 | North Chelmsford MA Middlesex County | 2.83 | — | 1 | — | — | Chelmsford High |
| 7 | Woburn MA Middlesex County | 2.08 | 43,895 | — | — | 4 | Woburn Little League |
| 8 | Wakefield MA Middlesex County | 1.84 | 29,216 | — | — | 4 | Wakefield Little League |
| 9 | Hopkinton MA Middlesex County | 1.79 | 19,971 | 1 | — | 2 | Hopkinton High · Hopkinton Little League |
| 10 | Lincoln MA Middlesex County | 1.58 | 6,996 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High |
| 11 | Sudbury MA Middlesex County | 1.58 | 19,805 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High |
| 12 | Stoneham MA Middlesex County | 1.55 | 24,550 | — | — | 4 | Stoneham Little League |
| 13 | Newtonville MA Middlesex County | 1.5 | — | 1 | — | — | Newton North High |
| 14 | Reading MA Middlesex County | 1.34 | 26,041 | — | — | 2 | Reading Little League |
| 15 | Lowell MA Middlesex County | 1.06 | 120,418 | 1 | — | — | Lowell Catholic High School |
| 16 | Billerica MA Middlesex County | 0.98 | 42,978 | — | — | 2 | Billerica American Little League |
| 17 | Dunstable MA Middlesex County | 0.84 | 3,500 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Groton Dunstable Regional |
| 18 | Groton MA Middlesex County | 0.84 | 11,580 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Groton Dunstable Regional |
| 19 | Wilmington MA Middlesex County | 0.83 | 23,802 | — | — | 2 | Wilmington Little League |
| 20 | Hudson MA Middlesex County | 0.75 | 20,364 | 1 | — | — | Hudson High |
| 21 | Weston MA Middlesex County | 0.74 | 11,827 | — | — | 2 | Weston Little League & Softball |
| 22 | Ashland MA Middlesex County | 0.67 | 19,391 | 1 | — | — | Ashland High |
| 23 | Malden MA Middlesex County | 0.6 | 66,693 | 1 | — | — | Malden Catholic HS |
| 24 | Tewksbury MA Middlesex County | 0.49 | 31,796 | — | — | 2 | Tewksbury American Little League · Tewksbury National 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
- 1North ReadingMA4.4 · 16k
- 2HopkintonMA1.79 · 20k
- 3SudburyMA1.58 · 20k
- 4StonehamMA1.55 · 25k
- 5GrotonMA0.84 · 12k
- 6WilmingtonMA0.83 · 24k
- 7HudsonMA0.75 · 20k
- 8WestonMA0.74 · 12k
25,000–75,000
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.