- Serving youth through sports. -Nick 'Buff' Maglio, the Founder of Brooklyn Kiwanis Baseball
- It doesn't take any talent to hustle! -Derek Jeter, the HOF Captain of the NY Yankees
- If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great! -A League of their Own
- There are 2 types of players: those who make it happen & those who watch it happen. -Tommy Lasorda
- They give you a round bat & they throw you a round ball & they tell you to hit it square.-W.Stargell
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ALL Spring Rosters will CLOSE in less than 1 week on Sunday, May 10th (Mother's Day) at 11:59pm
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The 2026 BROOKLYN KIWANIS ⚾
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In Memoriam to the friends of Brooklyn Baseball who are no longer with us...
Nick "Buff" Maglio (2011)
-founder of our Brooklyn Kiwnais Baseball League, the 1st wood bat league in NYC
-beloved longtime baseball & basketball coach at New Utrecht HS, Brooklyn Friends & Ty Cobb
-won the battle to make baseball safer & use wood bats in all of NYC
-helped fund to install the lights at Bay 8th Street fields 1 & 1a
-Bay 8th 1a was renamed in his honor: Nick Maglio Field
-lived his motto which we continue today: "Serving Youth through Sports."
John DeStefano (2024)
-beloved longtime coach & friend to the Brooklyn Kiwanis Baseball League
-founder of the current Brooklyn Pitbulls Baseball organization
Lou Barletta (2025)
-local coach & most recent president of the former Brooklyn Baseball League - aka: BBL
