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Sandlot Baseball League kicks off season

Posted Wednesday, April 29, 2015 11:48 am

Members of the ducks baseball team were armed with their duck beaks.

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Yankees teammates, from left, John Almendes, Luke Fififed, Sebastian Pimenteo, Brandon Shipley and Dominic Abreu.

Local officials, from left, Ed Fare, Building Superintendent Tom McAleer, Trustee Dermond Thomas, Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman and former mayor Jim Darcy.

Mayor Ed Fare, second from left, threw the first pitch to catcher Brian Hart. To the right are Bruce Blakeman, left, and Jim Darcy.

Tony Kateridge sang the National Anthem. Behind him are, from left, VSSBL President Bobby Inzerillo, Gerardo Cavaliere and Jamie Lewin.

By Micah Danney mdanney@liherald.com

The stands at Firemen’s Field were packed last Saturday for the Valley Stream Sandlot Baseball League’s opening day ceremonies, beginning the spring season that will last through mid-June, culminating in a league tournament.

Bobby Inzerillo is president of the league, formerly known as the Valley Stream Baseball League. He said the name change came with a reorganization of the league, and said there would be a bit of a shift in focus.

“We are gonna be a league that tries to really build its travel teams,” he said.

The opening day ceremonies included a singing of the National Anthem by Tony Kateridge — “our very own Pavarotti,” Inzerillo said — and Mayor Ed Fare threw the first pitch to catcher Brian Hart.

The players and crowd gobbled down more than 600 hot dogs, Inzerillo said. More than 350 players from the league’s 26 teams attended, with each playing its first game of the season at the field.

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