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Lindenhurst American Little League: Challenger Bulletin Board
Welcome To Our Bulletin Board!
The Purpose for Our "Challenger Bulletin Board" is to Share Awareness for Other Programs/Things-to-do Available to Our Children. Feel Free to See The Challenger Director to Make Inclusions To the Bulletin Board. Lindenhurst American Little League has no Affiliations with any of These Programs. More Program Info for 2013 coming soon.....
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Lindy American Challenger "Duck Day"
Long Island Ducks vs. York Revolution
Come watch the Long Island Ducks play against the York Revolution on Saturday, August 11, 2012. The game starts at 7:05 pm and tickets are only $10.00 each! Be sure to wear your Challenger uniform and enjoy the game. Tickets are limited {80 total} and are on a first-come, first serve basis. Order Deadline is May 27th.
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Long Island Challenger - "Duck Day"
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The 8th Annual Special Day for Special Kids (SD4SK), being held on Saturday July 28, 2012 at West Hills Day Camp, is excited to bring you a Summer Festival like no other. SD4SK is dedicated to children with special needs, a place where children of all ages, with autism spectrum disorder, Asperger syndrome, Tourette’s syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and other related neurobiological disorders, can feel comfortable enough to let go and just have fun in a safe environment. While these Special Kids are enjoying the many activities being offered, we will be bringing information and resources to parents and professionals in the field. Years prior, we have welcomed over 500 patrons to this event, and this year, we expect even more.
SWIMMING – BASKETBALL – ARTS AND CRAFTS – GIANT SLIDE – CASTLE BOUNCE – MINIATURE GOLF – PADDLE BOATS – EURO BUNGEE – PLAYGROUNDS - AND MUCH MORE!!!
This year, SD4SK is being hosted by and will benefit Custom Education Foundation (CEF). CEF is a non-profit organization, formed to directly benefit individuals with special needs and help them acquire the services and supports they require in order to live the quality life they deserve. All profits from Special Day for Special Kids will go directly to the CEF scholarship fund. We ask for your support and offer a variety of sponsorship packages and exhibiting opportunities to you and your organization. With much excitement, we invite you to join in this year’s growing roster of supporters at Special Day for Special Kids.
Once again, our Challenger Teams are invited to participate in exhibition games to be played during this event!
For more info, visit: www.specialdayforspecialkids.com
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2010 EVENT
Challenger Exhibition Game / Lindenhurst Historical Society Event
2008 SPECIAL EVENTS
A Special "Unveiling Ceremony" took place at our Ball Field on August 28th, 2008 at 11:00 am. This was a joint venture between the U. S. Postal Service, Little League Baseball, and "PitchInForBaseball.org". Click <HERE> to see pix of the event!
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” Stamp
“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
This 2008 stamp issuance commemorates the 100th anniversary of “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” one of the most popular baseball songs of all time. For decades, the song’s catchy chorus has been part of the musical tradition at ballparks around the country, especially during the seventh-inning stretch.The Take Me Out to the Ball Game stamp will be officially dedicated on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, in a ceremony held on the White House lawn.Jack Norworth, a successful vaudeville entertainer and songwriter, wrote “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” in 1908 on some scrap paper on a train ride to Manhattan. Norworth provided those paper scrap lyrics to Albert Von Tilzer, who composed the music, which in turn was published by the York Music Company. Before the year was over, a hit song was born.Jack Norworth spent 15 minutes writing this classic, which today is sung during the seventh inning stretch at nearly every ball park in the country. Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer were posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Over the course of a long and successful career, Norworth wrote or co-wrote thousands of other songs, including “Shine On, Harvest Moon” (1908). He died on September 1, 1959, in Laguna Beach, California. Albert Von Tilzer was equally prolific. He composed for Broadway and film and is remembered for his popular work “I’ll Be With You in Apple Blossom Time” (1920). He died on October 1, 1956, in Los Angeles, California.The original, handwritten lyrics of Norworth and Von Tilzer’s most celebrated collaboration now reside among the treasured collections of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Origin of the 7th Inning Stretch
The seventh inning stretch is a time-honored baseball custom in which the fans ritualistically stand and stretch before their team comes to bat in the seventh inning. This is done not only to relieve stiff muscles due to sitting the previous six innings, but perhaps also to bring luck to one’s team (an association with the number 7 and good luck, maybe?).Unfortunately the exact origin of the custom is lost in the earliest days of the game. Baseball historian Dan Daniel is quoted by Zander Hollander (Baseball Lingo, 1967): “It probably originated as an expression of fatigue and tedium, which seems to explain why the stretch comes late in the game instead of at the halfway point.” The earliest reference that has surfaced appears in an 1869 letter from Harry Wright of the Cincinnati Red Stockings to a friend: “The spectators all arise between halves of the seventh inning, extend their legs and arms and sometimes walk about. In so doing, they enjoy the relief afforded by relaxation from a long posture upon hard benches.”The most popular story of its origin is also the most colorful. It was created in 1910 when President William Howard Taft, on a visit to Pittsburgh, went to a baseball game and stood up to stretch in the seventh inning. The crowd, thinking the chief executive was about to leave, stood up out of respect for the office.The term itself can be traced back no further than 1920.
Song Lyrics
Take Me Out to the Ball Game —1908 version
Katie Casey was base ball mad.
Had the fever and had it bad;
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev’ry sou Katie blew.
On a Saturday, her young beau
Called to see if she’d like to go,
To see a show but Miss Kate said,
“No, I’ll tell you what you can do.” “Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”Katie Casey saw all the games,
Knew the players by their first names;
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Katie Casey knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song:“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
Take Me Out to the Ball Game — 1927 version
Nelly Kelly love baseball games,Knew the players, knew all their names,
You could see her there ev’ry day,
Shout “Hurray,” when they’d play.
Her boy friend by the name of Joe
Said, “To Coney Isle, dear, let’s go,”
Then Nelly started to fret and pout,
And to him I heard her shout.“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”Nelly Kelly was sure some fan,
She would root just like any man,
Told the umpire he was wrong,
All along, good and strong.
When the score was just two to two,
Nelly Kelly knew what to do,
Just to cheer up the boys she knew,
She made the gang sing this song.“Take me out to the ball game,
Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,
I don’t care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don’t win it’s a shame.
For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out,
At the old ball game.”
