YEARBOOK 2005

MANCHESTER

                        Magic

TOURNAMENT TEAM

"YOUR YARD OR OURS"

"LETS PLAY"

 www.magicbaseball.com
Ron Nametko, sr.
r.nametko@comcast.net

Manchester Magic Baseball Inc. Non Profit Corporation 501 (c) (3)
312 Middlesex Street Toms River, NJ 08757
Phone: 732-818-0271 Fax: 732-818-0162 Cell: 732-814-2325
For Maria, Email:
President@magicbaseball.com and m.nametko@comcast.net

                                      President, Ex.
                                      Dir., General Manager        Maria Nametko
                                      Vice President                    Ronald Nametko
                                      Board Members                 Judy Aponte
                                                                                Dennis Carter
                                                                                Jerry Palumbo

                                     12U Magic Baseball Team / Cooperstown Bound 2005
                                     Manager                              Steve Doyle, Sr.
                                     Coaches                              Rich Lareau

                                    15U Magic Baseball Team
                                    General Manager                  Maria Nametko
                                    Manager                               Ronald Nametko, Sr.
                                    Coaches                               Ron Nametko, Jr.
                                                                                Jerry Palumbo
                                                                                Mike Roberts, Sr.
 

Manchester Magic Affiliates:
East Coast Tournament Baseball
AAU and USSSA Baseball Leagues
Dave Gallagher Baseball
United States Amateur Baseball League (USABL)
The Magic Sports and Health Complex, Inc.

Special Recognition
We learn each year from our experiences and have grown as an Organization, Coaches
and Parents. We have focused our winter months from the first Friday of November
through the end of March on education of our entire Team and their Families. We all see
the difference in the quality of baseball that our boys are playing when you compare
them to those who have not played all winter. You can see the difference in Our Parents
after learning the game of Baseball all winter compared to the Parents who just go to
fields and watch their boys play. WELCOME to the Magic...
We would like to say Than You to the Manchester Board of Education and the Staff
and the Township of Manchester for the opportunity that they have given us and our
boys to use the Manchester Middle School and the Township fields as our home field
not only this year but for the last 6 years.
We say Thank You to all the umpires for taking care of our umpiring needs for this
season and for years to come.
We would like to extend a Special Thank You, from Our Boys and Our entire
Coaching Staff to Our Parents, Our Sponsors, and to All Our Advertisers who helped
make this Year Book the Best to be published in the last six years. From all of us at
The Manchester Magic, we say, Thank You, We could not have done it without YOU.
I personally ask each of you, please use the services or buy the products that
Our Advertisers provide to their community.

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 and soon to our own, Magic Sports and Health Complex.
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…”©

 

                                                The Magic Code of Ethics

1. Coaches, Players, and Parents are all considered part of the team. When you sign up
and register to participate in the game of Baseball with the Manchester Magic Baseball, Inc.
abuse of any kind will not be tolerated on or off the playing field. This behavior is not
accepted and will be reported immediately and all parties involved will go before the
BOARD of DIRECTORS of Our Corporation. The decision of the BOARD will be
FINAL and will not be challenged.

2. No Coach, Player, or Parent while involved with the game shall use or cause to use
or to permit the use of any Illegal Drug or Substance on or off the field.

3. There will be no consumption of Alcohol while we are involved, playing the game of Baseball on or
around the field of play.

4. We promote a very high standard of ETHICS. We always place education first.
Respect and consideration for all people, and demand Good Sportsmanship. We believe
our players should Honor their Fathers and Mothers.

5. We play the game of Baseball to Win and expect YOU to put 100% into the game
once you dress in the Magic Uniform. We promote only the highest level of play possible,
excellent sportsmanship, and good conduct on and off the field . When this team is away
at any type of function EVERYONE who is considered in the term TEAM, WILL COMPLY.

6. Education, school functions, and Sanctioned School Baseball games and practices
always come first.

7. Players will treat All Umpires and League Officials with respect at all times. It will
be the Responsibility of the TEAM to score enough runs that No umpire because of a
judgment call shall cause the TEAM to lose.

8. We all must deal with the personal situations if there is any Question that I can answer
for you please do not hesitate to ask. Please leave the problems in the car.

9. It is not necessary that parents travel with the team to all events. It is YOUR
RESPONSIBILITY to have your son where he needs to be for His ride 1/2 hour before
departure.

10. I have read the CODE of Ethics of Manchester Magic Baseball, Inc. / Magic
Baseball Travel Tournament Team and accept on behalf of our Family.

11. We have been playing the game since Aug. 17th, 1999. It was April 1999 that the
team and our sayings were developed, our first one that we still use between innings is
"I BELIEVE IN YOU" number two, you will find on our T-shirts, "LETS PLAY, YOUR
YARD OR OURS" and our newest release, "TO BELIEVE CREATES THE MAGIC"

Patrick Sheldrick - Captain
Austin Smutko
Zack Zoller

Manchester Magic Baseball 12U
Spring Schedule

Sunday, April 3
9:00AM - Manchester Magic at South Wall Clippers
11:15AM - New Jersey Cobras at Manchester magic

Sunday, April 10
9:00AM - Central Jersey Raiders at Manchester Magic

Sunday, April 17
11:15AM - Manchester Magic at Monmouth Sting
1:30PM - New Jersey Yellow Jackets at Manchester Magic

Sunday, April 24
1:30PM - Manchester Magic at North Howell Hurricanes

Sunday, May 1
9:00AM - Manchester Magic at New Jersey Nitro
11:15AM - Manchester at South Wall Clippers

Sunday, May 8
9:00AM - Central Jersey Raiders at Manchester Magic

Sunday, May 15
11:15AM - Manchester Magic at Monmouth Sting
1:30PM - New Jersey Yellow Jackets at Manchester Magic

Sunday, May 22
9:00AM - Manchester Magic at New Jersey Cobras

Manchester Magic Baseball
14U Schedule
Spring 2005

4/16
Manchester Magic @ Pirates
5:00 PM

4/23
Manchester Magic @ Dragons
5:00 PM

4/30
Patriots @ Manchester Magic
8:00 PM

5/7
Pirates @ Manchester Magic
8:00 PM

5/14
Dragons @ Manchester Magic
8:00 PM

5/21
Manchester Magic @ Patriots
5:00PM

5/28
Manchester Magic @ Pirates
5:00 PM

6/4
Dragons @ Manchester Magic
8:00 PM

United States Amateur Baseball League
15U Year Old Division
Spring 2005

April 3
Toms River Black Sox @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 1:30 PM

April 10
Manchester Magic @ Jersey Storm
Mercer County Park - 4:00 PM

April 17
Manchester Magic @ Toms River Black Knights
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

April 24
Manchester Magic @ Marlboro Mustangs
Marlboro Little League Field - 11:15 AM

May 1
Ocean Yankees @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

May 8
East Windsor @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

May 15
Jersey Storm @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

May 22
Marlboro Mustangs @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

May 29 - Memorial Day (OFF)

June 5
Wall Knights @ Manchester Magic
Manchester HS JV Field - 10:00 AM

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