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Squirrels schedule 21 fireworks extravaganzas

Starting April 7th and continuing on and off until September 7th the Flying Squirrels have 21 nights with fireworks. So when you hear those huge explosions it’s not the Russians, just the Squirrels. Full schedule after the jump.

Marty Jewell 3rd Annual Metropolitan Junior Baseball League Invitational Baseball Tournament set for Saturday

The Marty Jewell 3rd Annual Metropolitan Junior Baseball League Invitational Baseball Tournament will be held this Saturday at Hotchkiss Community Center Field, located at 701 E. Brookland Park Boulevard, and the Westover Community Center Field, located at 1301 Jahnke Road. The games are free to watch; open to the public; and, everyone is invited come [...]

Baseball’s back (little league)!

Style has a fantastic article about the new summer little league team over in Mosby. The team’s coach, Lawrence Day, previously a crisis counselor at John Marshall, played little league ball in Battery Park. A great story with lots of Northside mentions. The inner city, however, is different. Somewhere along the way baseball lost its [...]

North Richmond Little League finally has a home

About a year ago we ran a piece on the North Richmond Little League. Run by a hard working couple, the league had been without facilities for quite a while — forcing them to travel to their opponents fields for games. Well no longer! Little League’s Urban Initiative program provides more than 200 leagues with [...]