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Event Spotlight: Winterball Baseball This Saturday For Toys For Tots
Upwards of 100 adult amateur baseball players from several local baseball leagues are expected to attend.
Article info and text provided by the Winterball organizers:
What is Winterball Baseball?
Winterball is a 9-inning baseball game fundraiser played the first weekend of December each year. This is the 11th straight year of the game, and the 8th straight year this freeze-fest will be held to benefit Toys for Tots and the United States Marine Corps. The Boston Amateur Baseball Network is hosting.
Winterball participants are required to make a toy donation to Toys for Tots to get onto a roster. Since inception, the average game temperature has been 39 degrees.
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This year, those aged 18+ will battle those aged 30+ to see if age is truly eternal, as the Young Bucks take on the Aging Stallions.
Date/Time: Saturday, December 3, 2011.
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- 10:00AM – Batting Practice
- 10:30AM – United States Marines arrive to collect toys
- 11:00AM – First Pitch
Location: Maplewood Park, 275 Maplewood Street, Malden, MA.
Photos and game info from past years is at: www.bostonbaseball.com/winterball.php
About Toys for Tots:
The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.
