River Park Little League: Our Mission and History
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Our Mission
River Park Little League exists to provide a supervised program of competive baseball to be played under the Rules and Regulations of Little League Baseball, Inc. Our primary aim is to firmly implant in the children of the League the ideas of good sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage and respect for authority so that they may be well adjusted, stronger and happier children who will grow to be good, descent, healthy and trustworthy citizens.
Our History
River Park Little League was created in late 1993 by local community leaders who had a desire to bring sanctioned Little League to North Fresno. The League was incorporated as a nonprofit public benefit corporation on May 19, 1994. River Park Little League was chartered in 1994 by Little League Baseball, Inc.
River Park Little League is affiliated with Little League Baseball, Inc. which has its headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Little League is the oldest and largest youth sports program in the world, and is the only youth sports program to be voted a Federal Incorporation by the Congress of the United States. Even though the River Park Little League is chartered by and affiliated with Little League Baseball, Inc., the League is controlled locally. The operations of the League are conducted by a duly elected Board of Directors voted on by the membership of the League.
In May 1994, by a vote of a duly elected Board of Directors, the League committed to its vision to build a baseball complex consisting of four baseball fields. The wagon wheel shaped arrangement includes for each field: a grass infield, an electronic scoreboard, lighting, dugouts and fencing. A two-story building allow for concessions on the bottom floor is used for game announcers and official score keepers. Also to be located on the North West corner is a clubhouse with a multipurpose meeting room, storage room and permanent restrooms.
During 2000 a new relationship was developed between River Park Little League and the Harry Goorabian Baseball Foundation. The Foundation has provided the League with the necessary funds to complete the League's vision of a World Class Baseball Complex. In appreciation, The River Park Little League Board of Directors and the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District have elected to rename the ballpark the “Harry Goorabian Park" in honor of the Goorabian family.
With the completion of this project, the league is attracting regional tournaments, such as District, Sectional, and Divisional Little League All Star tournaments.
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