I had an idea come into my mind the other night and I wanted to swing it past you all, since I don't have any contacts who are with the Little League. What if we happen to go out and do some research and find some people who used to play Little League in Schenectady County and ask them if they would like to make a donation (monetary or materialistic, something that could be raffled off or sold on E-Bay) to bring in some money for the Little League, possibly looking in the end to buy the current property from Larned?
I did some quick research the other night and I did find out one person that used to at least live in the county that eventually made the Major Leagues. Former pitcher John Tudor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tudor_(baseball)
after 40+ years this subject needs to be done(line of support)
check with groups that have done the car raffle at crossgates
after you get the cash all and all the location has sort of worked for decades
be aware of the properties that boarder the park ie lighting the stuff behind the boys club took a few years to wear off
make sure you get at least the base for the parking lot delivered at a great price
CYA on knowing assessments well in advance or do whatever it takes to get it off the rolls and if you get the property off the rols please work into the bylaws a yearly gift to the town as a thank you to its citizens
Tommy Lasorda signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an undrafted free agent in 1945 and began his professional career with the Concord Weavers in 1945. He then missed the 1946 & 1947 seasons because of a stint in the United States Army. He served on active duty from October 1945 until spring 1947.
He returned to baseball in 1948 with the Schenectady Blue Jays of the Canadian-American League. On June 1, 1948 in a 15-inning game he struck out 25 Amsterdam Rugmakers, setting a since-broken pro record. He even drove in the winning run with a single. In his next two starts, he struck out 15 and 13, gaining the attention of the Dodgers, who drafted him from the Phillies chain and sent him to the Greenville Spinners in 1949. Lasorda also pitched for the Cristobal Motta's in the Canal Zone Baseball League in Panama from 1948 through 1950. The Motta's won the championship in '48 and '50.
Kid, Feller steal show at HOF Classic Crowd cheers 11-year-old; 90-year-old pitcher leads victory
By Jared Diamond / MLB.com
06/21/09 6:10 PM ET
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Zach D'Errico thought Steve Lyons was coming over to him to flip him a baseball or maybe sign an autograph when Lyons approached him as he hung from the railing in the right-field stands.
Little did he know that his brief encounter with Lyons would eventually lead to making the play of the day at Sunday's inaugural Hall of Fame Classic in front of 7,069 fans at Doubleday Field. Amid five Hall of Famers and a slew of former Major League stars, the most memorable moment came from an 11-year-old from nearby Schenectady, N.Y.
The seven-inning Hall of Fame Classic replaces the traditional Hall of Fame Game, which was an annual exhibition between two big league clubs played every year from 1940-2008. Team Wagner, led by Bob Feller, Brooks Robinson and Ferguson Jenkins, came away with a 5-4 victory over Team Collins, highlighted by Paul Molitor and Phil Niekro.
Despite all of those big names, D'Errico became the star. So D'Errico hopped over the fence and ran with Lyons onto the field before the first inning, fielding grounders and even having a catch with Feller -- even though he did not know who Feller was. Standing next to him was former Giants second baseman Jeff Kent, the all-time leader in home runs by a second baseman with 351.
"I think his name was Jeff," D'Errico correctly remembered afterward.
Already, this was the thrill of D'Errico's young lifetime, but the real excitement was still to come.
D'Errico remained on the field when the game began, playing shortstop alongside Lyons. With a runner on first and one out, former Red Sox reliever Mike Timlin hit a slow bouncer in D'Errico's direction.
Lyons scooted out of the way. It was D'Errico's ball all the way. He cooly made the play, flipped it to Kent at second base, who fired it over to Mike Pagliarulo at first to complete the double play. The crowd erupted, showering D'Errico with cheers as he jogged off the field.
"They just hit to me," said D'Errico, a Mets fan who is just finishing fifth grade. "I was ready for it."
Indeed he was, and his benefactor was later rewarded for his kind gesture. Lyons' squad came back from a 4-0 deficit that was partially created by a early home run by former Yankees first baseman Kevin Maas.
In the bottom of the sixth with his team trailing by a run, Lyons drove a ball down the right-field line to knock in the tying run. He scored the game-winner on a hit by Pagliarulo.
"I crushed it," said Lyons, who admitted he hadn't played seven innings in about 15 years. "Now, I'm just sore and hurting everywhere."
Lyons, 49, is one to talk. The starting pitcher for Team Wagner was Feller, who won 266 games for the Indians from 1936-56. "Rapid Robert" is now 90 years old, but still took to the mound in a Cleveland uniform and stirrups. He was greeted with an extended standing ovation and tipped his cap as he walked from the dugout.
The game's first batter led to the greatest dream matchup. Feller faced leadoff hitter Molitor, who compiled 3,319 hits for the Brewers, Blue Jays and Twins from 1978-98. Feller induced a popup, but the ball fell in for a base hit, much to his dismay.
"I had a great time," Feller said. "I almost broke a sweat. I needed a faster outfield."
Feller faced three batters, retiring Bobby Grich and allowing a hit to Steve Finley before exiting to another loud ovation. Feller was rumored to have thrown 100 mph or more during his playing days. On Sunday, he wasn't quite at that speed, but he threw from the mound and managed to throw strikes during his brief appearance.
"I didn't clock it because the radar screen wouldn't have accepted it," said Feller, who drove to Cooperstown with his wife from their home outside Cleveland. "I threw as hard as ever. The ball, I think, was going about eight or nine mph."
Perhaps. But Sunday's Hall of Fame Classic was not about high-quality baseball. The game certainly didn't offer much of that. But it did offer laughs and antics. At one point, former Tigers player Jon Warden stood with a clown wig on his head behind the home plate umpire and squirted his rear end with a toy water gun. It also left even some of the other players in awe: Timlin had the Hall of Famers autograph the uniform he was wearing before the game.
Afterward, Feller called Sunday's contest the best old-timers' game he had played in, and he plans to return next season. And considering the game was held on Father's Day, the outspoken and never-shy Feller had a message to all the dads out there.
Said Feller: "I wish the fathers would play a little more catch with their sons and get them away from those computers and all that electronic equipment and all that junk food."
Jared Diamond is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
another good idea....how about making NYS lotto pay for the fields for public use at the schools they supposedly pay for.....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha........
SHOW ME THE $$ TRAIL AND THE UNION CONTRACTS INVOLVED.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
ROTTERDAM Soccer club planning to build new field County backed out of deal to purchase land BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Justin Mason at 395-3113 or jmason@dailygazette.net.
The owners of nearly nine acres off Guilderland Avenue are advancing with plans to build a soccer fi eld more than a year after the collapse of a deal to sell the property to Schenectady County. County legislators were planning to build at least three fields and add $1 million worth of improvements for the Rotterdam Little League when they elected to buy the vacant land near West Ghents Road for $260,000 three years ago. But after months of environmental studies, county officials called off the deal, citing space limitations on the property. Now the original Rotterdam soccer club that purchased the parcel for $105,000 in 2006 is proposing to build a single field, with the possibility of constructing two more at a later date. Samuele Campagnano, a representative of the group, said the 210-foot-by-330-foot field would be built with the goal of getting the project moving after so long. “The ultimate goal would be to have a clubhouse and two or three fields,” he told members of the Planning Commission last week. “But this is just a way for us to get started.” Campagnano said the group is hoping the property will dry out somewhat when culverts beneath the nearby railroad are cleared. Commission members ordered the developers of the nearby 261-unit Helderberg Meadows project to ensure the culverts were clear as part of their conditions of approval. Other elements for the project are in place including a state Department of Transportation traffi c study and a shortening of the adjacent guardrail along Guilderland Avenue. This work was done during the mid-1990s when the Christ Community Church was planning a new place of worship at the site; that project was scrapped when the church determined the cost. Construction of the Little League fields sparked political sparring between the Legislature’s Democratic majority and the Republican-dominated Rotterdam Town Board. Both offered to build new fields after the league was told it would need to one day vacate the privately owned fields on Princetown Road after the property was targeted for commercial development. Board members initially proposed building a 15-acre complex of athletic fields on town-owned land off Campbell Road. Less than a year later, county officials announced they would build at least three fields on Guilderland Avenue using $500,000 set aside for parks in Rotterdam, Duanesburg and Princetown. ............>>>>..................>>>>..............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01000
Ounce more this here is an infamita a true sin that the repubs did this thing to the league to make the money on the walmart, now the county was trying to build the fields that Judy and Tony worked on and Surad and Stevie T shot that all down to hurt the kids and keep them from playing the ball - games over there. WHAT ENVRIROMENTAL PROBLEM? THE TOWN IS STARTING THE TROUBLE Shame on you repubs the kids need a place to play the ball
You got that right Sally. Gerry and SoooooCozio were the ones who got rich on that "deal" Kept out their client's (Golub) competition and then socked the town will big bills for appeal work. Out of scope work my keester. Boy the residents got snookered on that one! Are there more??? Ask Bobby G the pitbull. The list is as long as your left arm Sally.
Oh by the way I heard the Town Band has started playing taps at the end of each concert.
that is right pdq they are going to lose very big so if I was a town resident then I would start putting the donations into the demo team forget the repub team over there
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