Youth Section

• 2025 Perry League Season | Season opens with joy, minus game

  By YS News StaffJuly 5, 2025

  

  The longest day of the year arrived with about as idyllic a summer evening as you could imagine. We got to enjoy warm weather, sunny skies and a terrific game of T-ball at Gaunt Park.

• 2025 Perry League Season | Season opens with joy, minus game

  By YS News StaffJune 27, 2025

  

  This year’s opening night, Friday, June 6, presented a new first for many of us: the first time we started the season without a game of T-ball.

• 2025 Perry League Season | Rain? What rain?

  By YS News StaffJune 21, 2025

  

  The all-volunteer Perry League 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. We meet every Friday, June through July, at Gaunt Park, 6–7:30 p.m.

• Gratitude for 54 seasons of Perry League fun

  By YS News StaffAugust 26, 2024

  

  The final night of T-ball also means trophies. Each child was recognized with a Perry League “helmet” or “ponytail” trophy.

• Exciting baseball season nears end

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2024

  

  “Action continues as Yellow Springs Youth Baseball nears the end of another exciting season.”

• Rogue sounds in Perry League play

  By YS News Staff

  

  “In the interim, every time the sound of this rogue whistle filled the air, there was a pause in T-ball action.”

• Perry League wraps up T-ball play Friday, July 26

  By YS News StaffJuly 26, 2024

  

  Friday, July 26, is the final week of Perry League 2024, including the shortened play and cookout. Our all-volunteer program is noncompetitive, free, and open to children aged 2–9.

• Perry League play doesn’t disappoint

  By Guest ContributorJuly 21, 2024

  

  “The dirt was compacted, but not yet mud, and kids were not interested in interacting with this type of dirt to the degree we have seen on past Friday evenings — an interesting phenomenon.”

• Many draws at Perry League

  By YS News StaffJuly 10, 2024

  

  Many thanks to all who step up to help us every week, we couldn’t do it without you! Perry League is into the second half of our 2024 season next week, please join us!

• What heat? Perry League T-ballers revel in dirt

  By YS News StaffJuly 1, 2024

  

  The children seemed to revel in the opportunities presented by this alignment of circumstances and savored every moment. They kicked dirt and dust, they rolled in it, they filled their hats with it, and they threw dust in the air by the handful.