Commack Wiffleball League grows from backyard game to seven teams

Eastern Empire finished 7-1, and that record became the standard in the Commack Wiffleball League’s first year-plus of growth. What began as a backyard game among friends in Commack, NY, is now a seven-team setup built around baseball-style competition, custom jerseys and tracked statistics.

Luke Ferraro '28 created the league to bring friends together through baseball, and the numbers show how fast the idea scaled. The league was established in 2025 with four teams. Just over a year later, it had grown to seven, a jump that turned a casual hangout into an organized league with enough depth to keep standings, season records and team identity in play.

That shift mattered because the league did not simply add bodies and keep the same loose feel. The Chaminade High School post describing the project said the group moved from a backyard Wiffle ball league among friends to an organized community with seven teams, custom jerseys and statistics tracking. Those are the kinds of choices that separate a one-off summer game from something players keep returning to: a league name, a uniform and a stat line that follows a team all season.

Eastern Empire’s 7-1 finish gave the new structure a clear benchmark. The team became the winningest single-season squad in Commack Wiffleball League history, a useful measuring stick for a league still finding its competitive identity. In a young setup like this, one dominant run can do more than fill a trophy case. It gives every other roster a target and makes the next season feel real before the first pitch is thrown.

The league has also landed in a part of Long Island where baseball already carries weight. Commack Baseball’s listed 15-10 overall record and 11-7 mark in League 2 underscores the area’s appetite for the sport, and the Wiffle ball league taps directly into that same base of players looking for organized competition outside the traditional season. Ferraro’s pitch was simple at the start, but the execution is what turned it into something bigger: recruit friends, build a schedule, give the teams an identity and keep the numbers.