{"id":2816,"date":"2009-05-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2816"},"modified":"2009-10-18T21:17:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:17:26","slug":"herts-baseball-little-league-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=2816","title":{"rendered":"Herts Baseball Little League 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nCourtesy of Herts Baseball Club<\/h6>\n

The Herts Baseball Little League begins this Saturday in Hemel Hempstead, bringing together boys and girls from Hertfordshire with the aim of playing ball and having fun.\u00c2\u00a0 No doubt there will be plenty of enthusiastic grown-ups, wrapped up in the excitement,\u00c2\u00a0acting like little kids as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Baseball is a true family sport and nothing displays that better than a well-organized Little League event.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Herts Baseball Club\u00c2\u00a0are one of the most progressive clubs in Britain, so excellent organization is assured.\u00c2\u00a0 They have senior baseball teams throughout the levels of the British (South) league system and their impressive Little League set-up will hopefully develop many ballplayers who go\u00c2\u00a0on to represent the senior Herts clubs and maybe\u00c2\u00a0even their country in the senior Great Britain team one day.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the keys to getting youngsters involved, and to convince the parents that their kids will be well looked after, is to develop good facilities.\u00c2\u00a0 This has both a ‘Field of Dreams’ aspect\u00c2\u00a0(creating somewhere that makes the kids’ eyes light up, something completely different to the endless parade of football pitches they are used to) and also instilling a professional atmosphere to inspire the kids, parents and coaching staff.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The baseball complex at Grovehill Ballpark is one of the very best in Britain and Herts Baseball Club are not resting on their laurels.\u00c2\u00a0 They are continuing to make improvements to the site, as explained<\/a> at HertsBaseball.com:<\/p>\n

“Since last season, over \u00c2\u00a310,000 has been invested in developing the baseball facilities at Grovehill Ballpark thanks to a grant from the National Lottery.\u00c2\u00a0 It is already becoming an impressive sporting venue which is packed with baseball events for youth and adult teams from March until October.\u00c2\u00a0 The members of Herts Baseball Club have been working hard over the last 12 months to raise additional funds for the development of Grovehill Ballpark and these are scheduled to be invested later in the year”.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The link above provides full details about the Herts Baseball Little League opening day festivities and how\u00c2\u00a0children can get involved.\u00c2\u00a0 The league is open to both boys and girls aged between 5 and 14+.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0A wealth of information is available at http:\/\/www.hertslittleleague.com\/<\/a>, including schedules\/results, rules, important pages on bullying and child welfare, and details on uniforms and fees.\u00c2\u00a0 All equipment is provided as part of the annual fee, currently listed as \u00c2\u00a330.<\/p>\n

The only downside to the Herts Baseball Little League is that it can provoke strong pangs of jealousy from those of us who would have killed for such a league nearby when we were growing up (I could have been the next Albert Pujols, if only I’d have had the breaks etc!).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kids in Hertfordshire: it’s time to start pestering your parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Herts Baseball Club The Herts Baseball Little League begins this Saturday in Hemel Hempstead, bringing together boys and girls from Hertfordshire with the aim of playing ball and having fun.\u00c2\u00a0 No doubt there will be plenty of enthusiastic grown-ups, wrapped up in the excitement,\u00c2\u00a0acting like little kids as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Baseball is a true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[556,71],"class_list":["post-2816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-baseball-2","tag-british-baseball","tag-little-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2816"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2816\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}