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"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder then the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism."
~~~~~~~~ Abraham Lincoln
Upcoming Meetings:
February 16 - Membership Meeting @ 7:30
February 29 - Rules Proposals @ 7:30
March 14 - Rules Voting @ 7:30
TGI Friday's Ripken Night - February 22
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Join the Bayonne Cal Ripken Baseball League and T.G.I. Friday’s for a meal on Wednesday, February 22, 2012 from 11:00 AM - 1:00 AM. When you present the attached flyer, 20% of the sales* will be given to the Bayonne Cal Ripken Baseball League. By joining us for this meal, you help raise money for the Bayonne Cal Ripken Baseball League!
Tricky Tray - May 5, 6:00 pm @ St. Michael's
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Our fund raising team has been working hard on this new event and now are all set with a date for our 1st Annual Tricky Tray on Saturday May 5, 2012. There will be lots of great prizes and a fun night out for all our Ripken families and friends. It will be held at St. Michael's on 23rd Street in Bayonne beginning at 6pm. Please support our event and spread the word and help us make a better program for your children. Attached is the flyer for the event.
Ripken Night with Staten Island Yankees - June 27 @ 7 pm
Staten Island Yankees vs. Ripken Baseball’s Aberdeen IronBirds
Richmond County Bank Ballpark
Tickets $25
• ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT cheeseburgers, hot dogs, chicken sandwiches, soda
and water
• FREE limited edition Staten Island Yankees cap for each member of your
group
• A spectacular post-game fireworks show
• All players & coaches who attend in uniform will be allowed on the
field for the National Anthem
• Bayonne Babe Ruth & Cal Ripken Baseball will be welcomed on our
high-def LED replay board during the game
• FREE game program for each member of your group
• All kids 12 & under can run the bases for FREE after the game
• Proceeds from each ticket sold will go to Bayonne Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken
Baseball
• Richmond County Bank Ballpark is just 10 minutes from the Bayonne
Bridge
“If you build it……………………… they will come” – Field of Dreams, 1989
If you’ve seen the movie, you know the line well. The voice heard by Kevin Costner, who stars as a corn farmer and avid baseball fan, inspires him to build a baseball field on his farm with hopes of having legendary baseball players come play on it. In the end, the field is a state of the art baseball palace, and the players do, indeed, come.
In August of 1997, Bayonne Cal Ripken Baseball (then known as Bayonne Bambino Baseball) set out on a similar mission. With a vision to produce the greatest youth baseball program of its time, a group of men formed a league and called 5th Street field their home.
The field was a disaster. The compound was more than questionable. There were no dugouts, no press box, no running water, no electricity, no outfield fences, no scoreboard, no clubhouse, no bathrooms, and no concession stand.
But one thing that was not missing………. was a dream. A dream to make this “baseball diamond-in-the-rough” a place that both kids and parents would someday to be proud to come to.
In 13 years, the lot at 5th Street Field has become The Yard @ Haddad Stadium.
From four men with a “pipe dream” to over 100 volunteers and growing today………..
From having an outfield fence made of construction fencing to erecting the Sign Monster in left …
From carrying numbers out on a home-made scoreboard in between innings to the Orange Crush..
From sitting on park benches behind make-shift fencing to building Major League style dugouts…
From keeping score behind the backstop in a lounge chair to doing it in the Press Box…..
From the Port-a-Jon to the first-rate Rest Room facilities…………
From selling soda from a cooler to selling everything in the Stop N Shop Snack Shack……………
From having meetings off site in a recreation building to having them in our own Club House…….
From playing on a dangerous field to installing Field Turf – the most amazing playing surface of our time.
From Mission Impossible to Mission Accomplished !
In 1998, you’d have been reluctant to take your dog to this compound………In 2005, the Foot Locker Corporation entered into an agreement to have their illustrious name stamped on it. Then, in 2009, Haddad Corporation took over sponsorship rights for the field.
A big dream, dozens of great people, and a vision that never stops with an emphasis on doing what’s right for the kids of our town. And from 1998 through 2003, we did it all without having a mandatory registration fee to participate. Imagine that !
If you’re not growing, you’re dying…….and without a big dream, you’re dead. We want to pave our parking lot. We’d like to upgrade our clubhouse.
We won’t stop dreaming and we hope you can help us be a part of the already historic movement we call Bayonne Cal Ripken Baseball.
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