Cooper City Optimist Baseball shall be committed to providing organized baseball leagues to the youth of the community.  The mission of Cooper City Optimist Baseball shall remain constant: To instill, in the youth of the community, ideals of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority. This objective will be reached by providing supervised competitive games and practices. The Baseball Board, league officials, coaches, umpires, parents and volunteers shall bear in mind at all times that the winning of games is secondary to the attainment of athletic skills and to the development of finer, stronger and happier youth who will grow up to be good, clean and healthy adults.