Top Baseball Towns in Worcester 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. 17 towns have won something.
Leominster leads Worcester County, MA, scoring 9.66 almost entirely on youth titles, though Holden is close behind on 7.94. 17 towns have won something since 2000.
The top ten in Worcester County, MA are Leominster, Holden, Worcester, Shrewsbury, Auburn, Millbury, Ashburnham, Westminster, Whitinsville and Dudley. Between them they account for 89% of every point scored across the 17 towns on this list.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Ashburnham is in the top ten on a population of 6,522, while Worcester has 211,286 to draw on — roughly 32 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.
Holden is in the top ten on youth baseball alone: 10 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. Holden, Shrewsbury and Millbury have won something in the last two seasons, which is why they sit where they do.
Ashburnham and Westminster 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. 5 towns in Worcester 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 | Leominster MA Worcester County | 9.66 | 44,209 | 1 | — | 17 | Leominster High School · Leominster Little League |
| 2 | Holden MA Worcester County | 7.94 | 20,326 | — | 1 | 9 | Holden Baseball Program, Inc |
| 3 | Worcester MA Worcester County | 5.67 | 211,286 | — | 2 | 12 | Joe Schwartz Little League · Jesse Burkett Little League |
| 4 | Shrewsbury MA Worcester County | 5.5 | 39,620 | 2 | — | 7 | Saint John's High School · Shrewsbury Little League |
| 5 | Auburn MA Worcester County | 2.91 | 17,323 | 2 | — | — | Auburn Senior High |
| 6 | Millbury MA Worcester County | 2.83 | 14,173 | 1 | — | — | Millbury Junior/Senior High |
| 7 | Ashburnham MA Worcester County | 2.6 | 6,522 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Oakmont Regional High School |
| 8 | Westminster MA Worcester County | 2.6 | 8,509 | 1 ⌗ | — | — | Oakmont Regional High School |
| 9 | Whitinsville MA Worcester County | 1.19 | — | 1 | — | — | Northbridge High |
| 10 | Dudley MA Worcester County | 1.19 | 11,984 | — | 1 | 1 | Dudley Little League |
| 11 | Mendon MA Worcester County | 1.17 | 6,441 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Nipmuc Regional High |
| 12 | Upton MA Worcester County | 1.17 | 8,475 | 1.50 ⌗ | — | — | Nipmuc Regional High |
| 13 | Charlton MA Worcester County | 0.94 | 13,606 | — | — | 1 | Charlton Little League |
| 14 | Athol MA Worcester County | 0.79 | 12,105 | 1 | — | — | Athol High |
| 15 | Northborough MA Worcester County | 0.47 | 15,867 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Algonquin Regional High |
| 16 | Southborough MA Worcester County | 0.47 | 10,569 | 0.50 ⌗ | — | — | Algonquin Regional High |
| 17 | Winchendon MA Worcester County | 0.26 | 10,587 | — | — | 1 | Winchendon Youth Baseball and Softball 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.
Under 10,000
- 1AshburnhamMA2.6 · 7k
- 2WestminsterMA2.6 · 9k
- 3MendonMA1.17 · 6k
- 4UptonMA1.17 · 8k
10,000–25,000
- 1HoldenMA7.94 · 20k
- 2AuburnMA2.91 · 17k
- 3MillburyMA2.83 · 14k
- 4DudleyMA1.19 · 12k
- 5CharltonMA0.94 · 14k
- 6AtholMA0.79 · 12k
- 7NorthboroughMA0.47 · 16k
- 8SouthboroughMA0.47 · 11k
25,000–75,000
- 1LeominsterMA9.66 · 44k
- 2ShrewsburyMA5.5 · 40k
Over 75,000
- 1WorcesterMA5.67 · 211k
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.