The 79th Annual State of Hawaii AJA Baseball Championship Tournament will be held April 5 –6, 2014 at Vidinha Stadium, hosted by the Kauai AJA Baseball Association. The Oahu AJA Baseball Association is the defending State AJA Baseball Champion.
The Hawaii State AJA Baseball Association is made up of AJA baseball leagues from each major island. The Hawaii AJA Memorial Baseball League represents Hawaii (Big Island), the Kauai AJA Baseball League for Kauai, the Maui AJA Baseball League for Maui & the Oahu AJA Baseball Association for Oahu.
New Season of AJA Baseball in Hawaii began in 2013. AJA Baseball in Hawaii begins its 109th year of play starting December 2012. The Big Island, Maui, Oahu and Kauai will each crown its own island’s 2013-14 regular season champion who will then compete in the annual State of Hawaii AJA Baseball Championship Tournament. The State AJA Tournament rotates among the four islands with the Kauai AJA Baseball Association hosting in 2014 welcoming its neighbor island competitors.
Formed in 1930 for the purpose of unifying the AJA Baseball leagues throughout Hawaii to determine a State Champion, the Hawaii State AJA Baseball Association continues to crown a State Champion every year since 1930 till the present, except for five years (1942-47) during World War II. Moiliili of Oahu won the inaugural Championship.
Each island’s league is run entirely by volunteers dedicated to perpetuate the century old AJA baseball legacy passed on to them by men before them. This “giri” for those volunteers and those that will follow and of the AJA ballplayers who play now, in the future and the past, makes this league different from any league.