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EPBC Hosts NCAA Watch Party Sunday At Bar 106, To Send Ghosts To Cooperstown

The Evergreen Park Baseball Club is hosting an NCAA Watch Party Sunday at Bar 106, March 22, and help send the Ghosts to Cooperstown.

EVERGREEN PARK, IL—The Evergreen Park Baseball Club is hosting an NCAA watch party Sunday, March 22, to help send the Ghosts to the Cooperstown Dreams Park. The party gets going at 1 p.m. at Bar 106, The Neighborhood Tavern, 10649 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago.

The EPBC Ghosts is a part-time travel program for boys and girls offered by the youth league for 7U to 14U players in the Cal Ripken League, a division of the Babe Ruth League. The program is designed to add development and competition to grow players’ love of the game.

In 2024, the Ghosts 10U team went to Crown Point, IN, to play in the Cal Ripken World Series, becoming the first Evergreen Park youth team to play in a world series championship. The league's home fields are Duffy Park and Norris Park.

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This is a drink-and-earn fundraiser. Stop by Bar 106, watch some games, hoist a few beers, and win some prizes. The bar is donating 20 percent of drink sales to the Ghosts’ Cooperstown fund, as well as split-the-pot and raffle baskets.

The grand prize is a pair of tickets to see country superstar Morgan Wallen at Soldier Field on June 20, for $30 each. Only 200 tickets will be sold. Seats are in Section F, Row 2, Seats 8 and 9. Purchase tickets online at Zeffy EPBC Morgan Wallen Raffle.

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“It’s the biggest tournament for these kids,” said EPBC dad Jim Maloney. “All the years playing build up to Cooperstown.”

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