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Atlantic City Bus Trip
Date: Sunday, March 21st
Time: 8:00 am
Place: Babylon Town Hall
{Bus will leave from Parking Lot}
Cost: $30 per person
{Food & Beverage served on Bus}
Tickets: Available during Registration
Questions ? - Call Dennis Springer, 226-2875
2010 "Throw-a-Thon"
Date: June 19, 2010 {Rain Date, June 26, 2010}
The "Throw-a-Thon", a fundraising event for St. Jude Children's Hospital, is held at Babylon Town Hall annually. Lindy
American Little League has promoted this special event for the last two years. With the dedication of our baseball families
and local merchants, the "Throw-a-Thon" has become a fun and sucessful event. The 2010 Throw-a-Thon" will include: 1) DJ throughout
the event, 2) Rides by N.Y. Party Zone, 3) Guitar Hero Contest with WBAB, 4) Cookout Lunch by Applebees, and 5) Appearances
by "Quaker Jack" of the Long Island Ducks and "Rocky the Clown".
The "Throw-a-Thon" will demonstrate each child's ability to "Step and Throw" a baseball at targets set up for a specified
distance based upon age groups. Prior to the event, participants will get sponsors to pledge a donation for every target hit.
If unable to attend, Flat Donations are appreciated.
All donations from the "Throw-a-Thon" will go to St. Jude Children's Hospital for treatment and research of all childhood
cancer and catastrophic diseases. St. Jude's provides treatment/care and NEVER asks for any payments not covered by insurance.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in making last year's "Throw-a-Thon" a step closer to
helping St. Jude's put hope in every child's heart! We were a part of that hope and that is so rewarding. So please join us
once again in giving to a cause that can change a child's life. If we all give a little, the children at St. Jude Children's
research hospital can get a lot.
Click here to download the "Throw-a-Thon" Sponsor Form
2008 SPECIAL EVENTS
A Special "Unveiling Ceremony" took place at our Ball Field on August 28th, 2008 at 11:00 am. This was a joint
venture between the U. S. Postal Service, Little League Baseball, and "PitchInForBaseball.org". Click < HERE> to see pix of the event!
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Stamp
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
This 2008 stamp issuance commemorates the 100th anniversary of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” one of the most popular baseball songs of all time.
For decades, the song’s catchy chorus has been part of the musical tradition at ballparks around the country, especially
during the seventh-inning stretch.
The Take Me Out to the Ball Game stamp will be officially dedicated on Wednesday, July 16,
2008, in a ceremony held on the White House lawn.
Jack Norworth, a successful vaudeville entertainer and songwriter, wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in 1908 on some scrap paper on a train ride to Manhattan.
Norworth provided those paper scrap lyrics to Albert Von Tilzer, who composed the music, which in turn was published
by the York Music Company. Before the year was over, a hit song was born.
Jack Norworth spent 15 minutes writing this classic, which today is sung during the seventh inning stretch at nearly every ball park in the country.
Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Over the course of a long and successful career, Norworth
wrote or co-wrote thousands of other songs, including “Shine On, Harvest Moon” (1908). He died on September 1,
1959, in Laguna Beach, California. Albert Von Tilzer was equally prolific. He composed for Broadway and film and is remembered
for his popular work “I’ll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time” (1920). He died on October 1, 1956, in Los
Angeles, California.
The original, handwritten lyrics of Norworth and Von Tilzer’s most celebrated collaboration now reside among the treasured collections of the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
The seventh inning stretch is a time-honored baseball custom in which the fans ritualistically stand and stretch before their team comes to bat in the seventh inning. This is done
not only to relieve stiff muscles due to sitting the previous six innings, but perhaps also to bring luck to one’s team
(an association with the number 7 and good luck, maybe?).
Unfortunately the exact origin of the custom is lost in the earliest days of the game. Baseball historian Dan Daniel is quoted by Zander Hollander (Baseball Lingo, 1967): “It probably originated as an expression of fatigue and tedium, which seems to explain
why the stretch comes late in the game instead of at the halfway point.”
The earliest reference that has surfaced appears in an 1869 letter from Harry Wright of the Cincinnati Red Stockings to a friend: “The spectators all arise between halves
of the seventh inning, extend their legs and arms and sometimes walk about. In so doing, they enjoy the relief afforded
by relaxation from a long posture upon hard benches.”
The most popular story of its origin is also the most colorful. It was created in 1910 when President William Howard Taft, on a visit to Pittsburgh, went to a baseball game and
stood up to stretch in the seventh inning. The crowd, thinking the chief executive was about to leave, stood up out of respect
for the office.
The term itself can be traced back no further than 1920.
Katie Casey was base ball mad.
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev’ry sou Katie blew.
On a Saturday,
her young beau
Called to see if she’d like to go,
To see a show but Miss Kate said,
“No, I’ll tell
you what you can do.”
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let
me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes,
you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along good and strong.
When the score
was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this
song:
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let
me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes,
you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Nelly Kelly love baseball games,
Knew the players, knew all their names,
You could see her there ev’ry day,
Shout “Hurray,” when
they’d play.
Her boy friend by the name of Joe
Said, “To Coney Isle, dear, let’s go,”
Then
Nelly started to fret and pout,
And to him I heard her shout.
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let
me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes,
you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Nelly Kelly was sure some fan,
She would root just like any man,
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along, good and strong.
When the score was
just two to two,
Nelly Kelly knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song.
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let
me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes,
you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
"The Legend of Mickey Tussler"
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Frank Nappi, Massapequa resident
and Oceanside teacher, has just released his second novel, THE LEGEND OF MICKEY TUSSLER, a baseball novel that features
as its protagonist a seventeen year old autistic baseball player. Frank has worked together with Autism Speaks, Massapequa
Challenger Baseball Program, and several other autism groups to help promote awareness, sensitivity, and to raise money for
these programs. Each book that is sold will help raise more money for autism programs both locally and nationally. The
book can be purchased on Amazon or at any other bookstore.
The Legend
Of Mickey Tussler |
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An utterly heartbreaking and moving
baseball novel that is being celebrated as THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME meets THE NATURAL.
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The Legend of Mickey Tussler
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"In my work with the Boys
& Girls Clubs of America I see all kinds of challenges facing kids today, and this book does a very good job of treating
gifted kids and teenagers with sensitivity and understanding in coping with and meeting these challenges." -- Alex Rodriguez,
New York Yankees |
Seventeen-year-old Mickey Tussler
is recruited to play for a minor league affiliate of the Boston Braves in the 1940s. Arthur Murphy, a scout and coach
for the minor league Milwaukee Brewers, swears that Mickey is a phenom- one who has the greatest arm Murph has ever
seen, that anybody has ever seen. And it might be true. But Mickey is also autistic, before autism was given a name, and his Aspergers
keeps him sealed off from a world he scarcely understands. But Arthur wants to take the chance. The minor league
Brewers have had one of the worst records in baseball history, and he needs to do something to shake the team up. But
can Mickey survive? Tormented by the memories of an abusive father and heckled by fans and teammates alike, the odds
are stacked against him. But his inimitable talent -- one of the most gifted arms in the history of ba seball - just
might give him a chance. Can he survive a real life dream? Or are the harsh realities of life too much for him?
This is the powerful underdog story of how a young man with an extraordinary gift comes of age in a harsh and competitive
world that may not be ready for him. |
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