More than a hundred baseball players from the Kings Bay Youth Organization took a swing at the spring season with a parade in Sheepshead Bay on April 12.
The junior sluggers, ages 4 to 14 years old, marched to their ballfields on Coyle Street and Voorhies Avenue for the opening-day festivities, where Borough President Adams threw the first pitch.
The president of the 59-year-old league said the organization is a smashing way for youngsters to get up and get active.
“We try to start them off, get them out of the house and away from the computer games and Internet,” said Anthony Georgopoulos, adding that boys of all skill levels can play. “There are no tryouts — everybody plays.”
This season there are 16 games, not counting the playoffs. More than 155 youngsters signed up for the league and teams are divided by age groups. There is even a team for disabled kids.
Georgopoulos said the enrollment this year is out of the park.
“The last couple years, baseball in the neighborhood was declining,” he said, adding that basketball and soccer have become dominant sports. “Hopefully baseball is coming back.”
The season runs until the first week of June and playoffs are the rest of that month.
