Articles About Perry League :: Page 2

• Perry League’s noteworthy legacy

  By Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023

  

  Three years after Donald Perry’s death in 1967, the baseball league he founded was renamed Perry League in his honor. His legacy has been going strong for more than half a century.

• Perry League | T-ball nights full of surprises

  By Guest ContributorJune 23, 2023

  

  The local T-ball league has now encompassed more than five decades and endeared itself to the hearts of many children and families in the village.

• Perry League | Magical T-ball season starts anew

  By Guest ContributorJune 17, 2023

  

  About five dozen children responded to the 6 p.m. whistle. You could sense the magic in the children’s faces as they anticipated play. I remembered just how fun and worthwhile these games can be in those first few moments while children line up and wait.

• Perry League T-ball season nears

  By YS News StaffMay 22, 2023

  

  As the school year winds down, and the summer months near, Perry League T-Ball is preparing for its 53rd season. The beloved local program remains an all-volunteer undertaking, with play taking place this year every Friday evening in June and July, 6–7:30 p.m., at Gaunt Park.

• Perry League | T-ball season brings growth

  By YS News StaffAugust 10, 2022

  

  Time most certainly flies. Perry League Summer 2022 is a wrap! Although the final game on July 29 was abbreviated due to the annual cookout picnic, there was plenty of action on the T-ball field.

• Perry League | T-ball season ends with smiles

  By YS News StaffAugust 9, 2022

  

  Time most certainly flies. Perry League Summer 2022 is a wrap! Although the final game on July 29 was abbreviated due to the annual cookout picnic, there was plenty of action on the T-ball field.

• 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.