Manchester Magic Baseball, Inc. In The Beginning
Manchester Magic Baseball was founded in April 1999 and took the field for the fist time on August 17th. We grew from a dream, to a baseball team, to a 501 (c) (3) corporation, to a web-site. In December 2000 we launched our website, www.magicbaseball.com, if you haven’t been there you should check it out. If there is any information that you would like to know about Manchester Magic Baseball, inc. or anything else about us you can find it on our web-site. It takes a lot of time to produce this year book each year and I’m proud to say that this is our 6th edition. Our Jay Palumbo has done one heck of a job, Thank You Jay, for helping me… This season we will play USABL, Sayreville league, East Coast Tournament Baseball Competitions, Dave Gallagher Baseball League with our 12’s, and Triple Crown Baseball Academy has been our winter training home this past year. This year our 12U team is heading to Cooperstown Dreams Park in Cooperstown, New York, this August 21st, 2005, for our second year. Lou has a great website that you can check out at, www.cooperstowndreamspark.com. It will be a time in their life that they will always remember and cherish, being there with there friends and telling great stories of their week together. Our goal is to find and to develop a team of special boys that want to learn to play the game of baseball so that they will be competitive whether they are playing with the Magic… or any other team. A special player comes out of town ball searching for a higher level of competition and they will find it in these teams that specialize in travel baseball. To reach the goal that we chase it takes a commitment to the game by not only the players but by coaches and whole families who are willing to dedicate 12 months of the year to the game of baseball. These teams constantly change because of the time that is involved and boys come and go as the level of play continues to create more competitions within the team. Welcome to the life of travel tournament baseball. We educate our players, coaches and our parents like no other organization of its kind in the area. That’s what is really needed in sports of all types today starting at the recreational level. It’s great that there are so many individuals willing to help but it is our responsibility to educator those who teach our children, which over time will increase the level of play. Our boys will learn to out think the other team, learn game situations and practice techniques and skills of the game of baseball. We will teach leadership on and off the field and create an organization where Sportsmanship leads the way. As with ever Team time together on and off the field prepares them for the times ahead. Together they will accomplish things that will surprise everyone. As weeks and months go by the Team becomes a well oiled machine, they will play the game at a level that will exceed each of their own ability and together they are Magic…
Baseball is Our National past time since the early 1800’s, Great players have changed the game in their day. You can still hear the cheers from the crowd that lined the base lines from day’s gone bye, where the game brought out young and old alike, and entire towns came to be part of it. There’s a strange Greatness to this game of Baseball that will allow it to live on forever, boys that play the game Never grow old. It must be Magic… To those Great Players who we still salute for their accomplishments we want you to know you will never be forgotten, Cy Young, Satchel Page, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Mantel, Roger Maris, Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Don Mattingly, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson and all the Great Players of the past and the present, we say Thank You…
Will we know the next Great name that will come along and change the game in our day, where Children 100 years from now will sit around and tell their story from the year of 2005. It’s Baseball, it’s the game that we Love, the game that we play, it’s Our national Past time. May GOD keep us all safe, to play the game another day..
“ Play the game to WIN or Stay HOME… © “ To Believe Creates the Magic…”© “ Lets Play.. Your Yard or Ours..”© “ I Believe in YOU…”© “ We Play, KickAssBaseball…”©
We incorporated on September 5th,2000 as, Manchester Magic baseball, Inc. and by the end of that month we were filling out all the paper work to become a 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) non-profit corporation. We were sure that would help to raise the money needed to run our team because Major Corporations would be able to write off their contributions. We’ll it’s April 21st, 2005 and I’m still looking for that Major Sponsor like all the other Teams out there are doing, Too. Maybe $1.00 from every Professional Sports ticket that is sold throughout the country should go toward the Amateur Travel Sport Teams that are real Non-Profits. On January 2nd, 2001 we received our 501 ( c ) ( 3 ) Ruling approved. You can find a copy of that ruling in this link. If you or your company would like to help support our Team whether it’s with Money or Product we would sure appreciate it. It’s always the same old story, it’s not what you know or what you do, but it’s who you know, or where you go. If I was a friend of the President of Nike, we would have the major sponsor. I can always be reached at, 732-814-2325 or at ron@magicbaseball.com . This year Our 12’s will go to Cooperstown Dreams Park, in Cooperstown, New York to play for the 3rd time, six days of Great Baseball for 12 year olds. Our Big Team will play in five more major tournaments throughout the year totaling about 70 games, our teams will spend more then $25,000.00 Traveling to Baseball Tournaments in 2005. The Boys of Magic Baseball and their Families want you to know that we appreciate anything and everything that you do to help Support our TEAMS and Our Cause. May GOD Bless YOU and Your Family… Please sign Our Guest Book, before you leave and share our site with a friend.
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