Greg’s 50 year softball career started when he was only 8 years old on the Southside. His father signed up he and his brothers for a startup softball league in Donovan Park…Wallace Softball. He really started to pick up the game in high school playing every opportunity in the Bridgeport/Canaryville area. He eventually joined Mickey Balestri’s
The Graphic Edge started playing in 1979. Led by Hall of Fame Manager John Reglein the squad was created with the best players in not just western Iowa but the entire state. Nine straight Sub State titles in Iowa District 1 transposed into multiple high finishes at Iowa’s ASA State Open. Then domination began with 10 State
The Gators were started in 1983, by Pat Connolly when he assembled a bunch of young and upcoming talented Southside athletes that were playing for family members. They played in the Mt. Greenwood league where they won the league 23 out of the next 25 years. They also played in the Blue Island A league
Bob was introduced to the game he would love in grammar school. He played first and also pitched later in his career. His first manager’s responsibility was the Normandy Park Crush. In 1988 he would start a new team along with Hall of Famer, Tom Balek by combining players from several successful teams. This team
They started in 1981 in an 18 and under league at Clyde and would play for 15 years. They entered a 16-inch tournament in Joliet, but it turned out that it was an ASA 12-inch State Tournament. They had to borrow the gloves and bats from the other team. They lost their first game and
The Alpha Giants have been in existence since 1979 and during that time we have participated in the Sunday’s Best Softball League at Washington Park, and won 60 percent of their 800 games The team comradery and the sportsmanship that has, been exhibited during this time has been a credit to the league and to
Growing up in the early 1960’s when you were associated with the parish you grew up in, neighborhood friends and classmates of St. Felicitas grade school moved on from the little league diamonds to the softball elds of Avalon Park. Thus began a bond that started during our school years and continued to grow as
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Better known as “P-Funk”, Kendall has commissioned over the Washing-ton Park Super Sunday League for 15 plus seasons. The league consists of over 30 teams playing games on 14 diamonds on Sundays from sunup to sunset. Under his leadership, several teams have been honored, in-cluding Steel Gold, Outcast, Young Guns, Pharaoh’s, Rack City, Dog-pound, Team
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Andrew (Bay Bay) Patterson was looking for a deterrent for the young men living in the Rockwell Gardens Housing community. In 1984, he decided to build a 16inch softball team. In collaboration with existing teams, 340 Invaders and Altgeld Invaders, created a team called California Gold. California Gold played competitively throughout the local park district
