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PHOTOS: Sunshine Park Grand Opening
Area youth now have an incredible place to play baseball and learn leadership skills at the new baseball and softball facility off Wicklow Drive in Fredericksburg's Bragg Hill.
The ribbon-cutting ceremony for Sunshine Park in Bragg Hill was today with numerous dignitaries and hundreds of parents and children in attendance. The park has three baseball/softball fields, two of which have artificial turf and there's an educational center with interactive programs for kids.
Fredericksburg City government and the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation in 2007 partnered to build the youth baseball and softball complex. Kevin Bingham, COO of the Ripken foundation, said the goal is to have 50 similar parks across the country built by 2015.
The fields will host Little League games and youth from Fredericksburg, as well as Stafford, Spotsylvania and King George counties.
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Ability Field is for special-needs children and can accommodate wheelchairs. Griffith Field has artificial turf with Babe Ruth baseball field measurements. Ponce De Leon Field is the only grass field.
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