Top Baseball Towns in Plymouth 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. 7 towns have won something.
Middleborough leads Plymouth County, MA, scoring 13.43 on both halves of the game roughly evenly, though Bridgewater is close behind on 10.94. 7 towns have won something since 2000.
The top 7 in Plymouth County, MA are Middleborough, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Hingham, Abington, Raynham and Lakeville.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Lakeville is in the top ten on a population of 12,262, while Plymouth has 66,663 to draw on — roughly 5 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.
Lakeville is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 1 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. Middleborough, Bridgewater and Hingham have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Bridgewater and Raynham 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 organization 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. 4 towns in Plymouth 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 | Middleborough MA Plymouth County | 13.43 | 24,847 | 3 | 1 | 11 | Middleborough High · Middleboro Little League |
| 2 | Bridgewater MA Plymouth County | 10.94 | 29,167 | 0.50 ⌗ | 2 | 6 | Bridgewater-Raynham Regional · Bridgewater Little League |
| 3 | Plymouth MA Plymouth County | 4.99 | 66,663 | 3 | — | — | Plymouth North High |
| 4 | Hingham MA Plymouth County | 3.16 | 24,414 | 1 | — | 2 | Hingham High · Hingham Little League |
| 5 | Abington MA Plymouth County | 1.5 | 17,090 | 1 | — | 1 | Abington High · Abington Little League |
| 6 | Raynham MA Plymouth County | 0.71 | 15,861 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Bridgewater-Raynham Regional |
| 7 | Lakeville MA Plymouth County | 0.47 | 12,262 | — | — | 1 | Lakeville 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
- 1MiddleboroughMA13.43 · 25k
- 2HinghamMA3.16 · 24k
- 3AbingtonMA1.5 · 17k
- 4RaynhamMA0.71 · 16k
- 5LakevilleMA0.47 · 12k
25,000–75,000
- 1BridgewaterMA10.94 · 29k
- 2PlymouthMA4.99 · 67k
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.