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Greenfield Baseball at Hammer
An Injunction has been filed against the City of Pittsburgh to stop Greenfield Baseball for getting a permit issued next year for Hammer Field. So we would like all of you to call your Councilperson and the Mayors Service center to save Hammer Field.
Thank You Greenfield Baseball Association Board of Directors.
Piitsburgh Tribune Review
Little League parents warn a lawsuit could force their children off Bud Hammer Field in Greenfield if the city of Pittsburgh yields to the complaints of a resident.
Citing noise, traffic and damage to his property from baseballs that fly over the 10-foot fence at the edge of the park, Barry Carb asked a judge to issue a temporary injunction preventing the city from granting any more permits to the Greenfield Baseball Association, which hosts Little League games for children ages 5-12.
"If that happens, that will basically shut down Greenfield baseball," said Dara Pegher, the parent of a 14-year-old player.
"It's not that I'm after the little kids, it's just that this baseball association has grown," Carb said Tuesday night.
In the lawsuit filed May 18, Carb complains of broken windows, unruly crowds and a mass of cars that choke his street and cut off access to his house. The suit also seeks $25,000 in damages from the city.
A hearing is scheduled for Aug. 6 in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court.
Pegher, who lives across the street from the field, said Carb should have thought about the fallout of living next to a baseball park before he moved into his house. Hammer Field was built in 1960 — long before Carb chose to move into the area, she said — and the association goes back even further, to 1951.
Carb said he moved into the neighborhood in 1985.
Association President Gary Moser said Carb did not make enough of an effort to resolve his concerns with the league before going to court, but he faulted the city for "bending" to Carb. The Department of Public Works removed some speakers on a public address system the field once had and built a taller fence at the field this spring after previous court complaints from Carb.
"It seems like every complaint he makes, they do whatever he asks," Pegher said.
Carb said he believes other residents are bothered by the games but are not willing to speak out. "I spent 4 1/2 years in the Marine Corps. I'm not going to back down from anybody."
The association will finish its last tournament of the season this week.
Moser said Carb's allegations, including that the elementary and middle school students hit about 250 baseballs into his yard each season, are incorrect.
"We don't have 250 home runs up here in three years," he said.
If the association loses the use of the field, the children would suffer most, he said.
"Their fathers have played here, their uncles have played here and now they're playing here. It's just one big happy place. I don't get it."
Jul 28, 2009 11:11 pm US/Eastern Battle Brewing Over Baseball Field In Greenfield Reporting
Ralph Iannotti GREENFIELD (KDKA) ? A homeowner whose backyard is adjacent to the outfield wall at Bud Hammer Field in Greenfield is seeking a temporary restraining order against league play at the field.
A hearing on Barry Carb's complaint is scheduled for next Thursday, August 6.
"[The] Greenfield Baseball Association has grown this into a money-making proposition – he just took over this neighborhood," Carb told KDKA-TV.
He says there are too many games, too many cars, too much noise and too many baseballs still ending up in his backyard, even though the city spent $27,000 last year to put up a 20-foot fence to try to prevent the balls from falling onto his property.
Supporters of Hammer Field have collected nearly 300 signatures so far and hope to have more than 500 by the time of next week's hearing.
"We're just not going to roll over, we're going to fight for our field, whatever we have to do," Gary Moser, the president of the Greenfield Baseball Association, told KDKA-TV.
Lawsuit Threatens To Bench Greenfield Little Leaguers
Posted: 11:59 pm EDT July 28, 2009
Updated: 10:47 am EDT July 29, 2009
GREENFIELD, Pa. -- A lawsuit is threatening to bench little league baseball players in Greenfield.
The Greenfield Baseball Association runs Bud Hammer Field, but Barry Carb, who lives next to the field, said the league has gotten too big and doesn't fit into the neighborhood anymore.
"I can't sometimes leave my place or can't get in. The traffic congestion is so horrific, it's like running a gauntlet all day, all summer," said Carb.
He's asking for a temporary restraining order against future permits for the league.
However, Scott Gormley, of the GBA, said the community needs the field.
"This is a community field. The kids are up here. They are having a good time, and we are keeping them from doing bad things in the street," said Gormley.
Parents have collected signatures to save the field.
The two sides will be in court on Aug. 6. WPXI
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PAST PRESIDENTS OF
GREENFIELD BASBALL ASSOCIATION
MIKE BELAGO
JOSEPH BOSCOE
ELAINE BUETTNER
JOE DEIULIS
FRANK FOLTZ
JAMES GREGG
BUD HAMMER
KEITH HARTMAN
SHIRLEY HARTMAN
RON IERACI
LARRY KIMELMAN
FRANK KNOW
STAN LOWE
GIL MALEK
BILL MORGAN
GARY MOSER
TOM MURPHY
CARM O’DONNELL
JOE PAUL
BRIAN PFLEGER
FRANK QUIRIN
FRED REGINELLA
BOB ROCHE
JOHN SANTAGTA
FRANK STRUM
JOHN TAMBURRO
HELEN VARLEY
JOHN VARLEY
TOM WALSH
PAUL WILLIAMS
BOB WISNIEWSKI
WILLIAM WUERTHELE
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GBA thanks Head Coach Mike McCarthy and the Greenbay Packers
McCarthy gives back to hometown
Thursday, July 17, 2008
By Colin Dunlap, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy, one of five children from a Greenfield, Irish-Catholic family, can easily identify the influences that shaped his youth.
• There were his father and mother, Joe and Ellen. Joe was a sometimes fireman, sometimes policeman, sometimes bar owner and all-the-time head of the family.
• There was also, in a broader sense, all of Greenfield.
And yesterday, McCarthy gave something back to the neighborhood that helped mold him.
McCarthy partnered with the Green Bay Packers to make a $100,000 donation that will be divided among three Greenfield entities -- St. Rosalia Academy, the Greenfield Baseball Association and the Greenfield Organization.
McCarthy -- and his four siblings -- went to St. Rosalia, a kindergarten-eighth grade school, and as children played for the Greenfield Baseball Association. The Greenfield Organization was founded in 1968 to improve recreational facilities, including Magee Recreational Center, in the community.
All are places near to McCarthy's heart.
"The lessons I learned at Magee Field and that I learned at St. Rosalia are things that I think back on every day," McCarthy said. "When I think of Magee Field, I think of it as being our little inner-city country club. We had a pool, we had baseball fields, we had basketball courts ... there were always hundreds of people and there was always something going on. And when I think of St. Rosalia, I think of discipline, academics and I think of being taught how to live your life the right way. All of that, to this day, is very important to me and it all started back in Greenfield."
Gary Moser is the president of the Greenfield Baseball Association, which was established in 1951, making it among the oldest in the city. He said to know McCarthy is to understand that even as he has risen to the position of a head coach in the NFL is to also know that he would never forget the place that forged him.
"We are Pittsburgh and Greenfield guys just like Mike is, and he knows we don't get paid to coach or to spend all the time we do with these kids teaching them baseball," Moser said. "We get involved with Greenfield baseball for the kids. For him to do this, well, we all owe him a lot of thanks. But anyone who knows him knows how much he cares about Greenfield and they aren't surprised he gave money back to his community like this."
But McCarthy was taken aback yesterday when told he is a role model to many in Greenfield.
"That isn't really something I have thought about until now, and, you know, I don't know what to say. I am very humbled to know that, yes, maybe there is a little kid who says, 'He grew up here and he is an NFL coach, maybe I can do it someday,' " he said when reached by phone. "There is a responsibility and, to hear that Pittsburgh people might look up to me is the ultimate compliment, as far as I am concerned, the ultimate compliment. Greenfield is a place that knew me when I was developing. It is a place that made me who I am. Where I am today, I owe that to Greenfield."
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THE BEGINNING
On February 15, 1951, the letter below was sent to 20 individuals
in the Greenfield Community. This letter initiated what would become the First Little League Organization in the City of Pittsburgh,
The Greenfield Baseball Association.
Hi Neighbor: 2/15/51
Have you heard about the way the "Little League" baseball idea
is sweeping the country? No doubt you have - and if you've read
recent articles in "Life" you know it is a grand opportunity for the little fellows between 9 and 12 years of age.Several of us are interested in promoting this idea in Greenfield, at Magee Field — but we need some help. You are one of the select number of Greenfield men, who is being given the first opportunity to start this movement going.
A meeting, for discussion purposes only, will be held in the
Soldiers & Sailors recreation room on February 22, at 8:00 p.m.
Movies of the "Little League" World Series will be shown and
consideration given to possibilities of establishing a league in Greenfield.
You are urged to be present. We're sure you will be impressed with
what we are trying to do.If you cannot be present, please phone Frank Foltz at Hazel 1-5410
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The following 14 individuals attended the first
meeting on February 22, 1951, at the Soldiers & Sailors.
These men were the original organizers of the
Greenfield Baseball Association:
Raymond Cosgrove, Frank Dusch, Frank Foltz,
Rev. George Funk, Edward Kanai, Rev. Eugene Kelly,
Father Kohler (St. Rosalia's Church), Will Laughlin, Jr.,
Earl Miller, Thomas Monahan, Thomas Pickard,
Charles Prokopovitsh, Fred Rauschart and William Wuerthele.
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Greenfield Baseball Association Meeting held the 1st and 3rd Thursday Every Month at
Private Soldiers & Sailors Legion
4059 Beechwood Blvd
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
Private Soldiers & Sailors Legion also for Hall Rental
Cater your own
Food and Refreshments
For Weddings-Showers-Baptisms-Funeral Brunches
Contact Ang Lamanti 412-352-4934
The Legion Accepts All Ceremonial Events
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