The Roosevelt Island Baseball Little League was awarded a $5 Thousand grant from SNY Play Ball (the television home of the Mets and Jets) during a ceremony last Saturday June 2 prior to the start of the League’s annual All Star Game at Capobianco Field.

According to SNY:

SNY Play Ball presented by Toyota has awarded the Roosevelt Island Baseball
League with a $5,000 grant for the necessary field maintenance equipment to
keep the conditions safe for play, and to provide essential baseball equipment
for their 175+ youth ballplayers….

Roosevelt Island Baseball Little League Commissioner Arya Shirazi accepted the ceremonial check from SNY

and said:

… Today is a very special day for
Roosevelt Island baseball and the Roosevelt Island Baseball League. In
addition to it being the annual All Star
game, we have a very special presentation
today.

SNY Play Ball is a wonderful
organization. Some of our kids had the opportunity to
attend and participate in an on field clinic at City Field two years ago
through SNY Play Ball and for those
coaches and parents and players who took part in that, it was a very, very special
opportunity.

Two years later, our league was nominated as an outstanding baseball league in the City. Every season, SNY Play Ball chooses one baseball league in New York to recognize with a very very generous grant to help towards operations and equipment and it’s very, very needed and appreciated. It was an honor to be nominated and it’s even more of an honor to be selected as the 2024 recipient…

… Every
year before the All Star game, I always
feel the same emotions. That’s pride
in seeing our players. Seeing our Majors
All Stars, the leaders of the baseball community. I used to remember when they
were Minors players. Now I remember when a lot of our
Majors Allstar were T-ball players which
makes me feel old but it also really
makes me feel proud and that’s exactly
the way it should be.

The older players
showing the younger players how to be
baseball players but much more important
how to be
teammates and for coaches and parents
seeing these kids grow up and seeing
them as T-ball players or as Minors
players and then seeing them grow into
the people they’re becoming and the
people they will become and knowing that
our baseball league played a small part
in that is the most rewarding thing of
all to me….

… this honor for our league is because of all of you. It is because of the players, the coaches and the families who make up this league and your dedication and your passion to what we do here that makes this a special place…

Watch the full remarks of Roosevelt Island Baseball Little League Commissioner Arya Shirazi.

The Roosevelt Island Baseball Little League completed a 9 game 2024 schedule.The playoffs are scheduled for Saturday June 8, Championship and Coaches Games Saturday June 15 and All Girls Rule Saturday June 22 at Capobianco Field.

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