Articles About Perry League :: Page 2

• Perry League fosters relationships

  By YS News StaffJuly 29, 2022

  

  Elves must have visited Gaunt Park this week. The T-ball infield looked professionally maintained starkly different than last week’s muddy swamp. We send our gratitude to those elves.

• Mud rules the Perry League field

  By YS News StaffJuly 25, 2022

  

  “The wet weather early in the week, in addition to a rain-soaked Friday, created a new field medium for the children to play in — MUD, lots of slippy, sloppy, slimy mud!”

• A night of many Perry League firsts

  By Guest ContributorJuly 17, 2022

  

  Our all-volunteer program is noncompetitive, free, and open to children aged 2–9, regardless of their race, color, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, spiritual inclination or practice, ability or disability.

• Perry League T-ball | T-ball sluggers find joy in the dirt

  By YS News StaffJuly 11, 2022

  

  Although hitting, chasing and fielding baseballs are the primary activities for the participants, playing in the dirt ranks a close second.

• Abundant happiness at Friday T-ball

  By YS News StaffJuly 1, 2022

  

  If you happened to be at Gaunt Park just before 6:30 p.m you would have been watching nearly 20 children running circles in the sand while waiting for another game of Yellow Springs Perry League T-ball.

• Perry League T-ball | A village affair

  By YS News StaffJune 27, 2022

  

  Here in the Village of Yellow Springs, a unique marker has signified the arrival of summer to generations of children raised in the village: Perry League T-ball.

• Perry League T-ball | All smiles on the diamond

  By YS News StaffJune 22, 2022

  

  It was a perfect and beautiful evening for opening day at T-ball. Those present, including approximately 60 players and an equal or greater number of spectators, enjoyed an hour and a half of chaos and fun.

• New leaders for Perry League T-ball

  By Lauren ShowsMay 6, 2022

  

  T-ball lovers of all ages — but particularly those ages 2–9 — have reason to celebrate: A new slate of volunteers have stepped up to the plate to lead Perry League, the village’s beloved, 52-year-old T-ball program.

• A fond farewell to Coach Jimmy

  By Lauren ShowsAugust 23, 2021

  

  Summer after summer after summer, villagers have seen him out on the T-ball diamond at Gaunt Park every Friday night: baseball hat perched on his head, hair tied back in a ponytail, a big grin spreading across his face, surrounded by laughing, shouting kids.

• Coach Jimmy Chesire signs off

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 9, 2021

  

  Jimmy Chesire announced in July of this year that he would be retiring from his position as volunteer head coach — and chronicler — of Perry League T-ball after 35 years.