After almost a year of planning and creating our organization, our first season of Challenger Baseball finished today. This, our first endeavor for Play!, has proven to be a huge hit and a great opportunity for many of the children. We tripled the athlete involvement from last year with the Little League we worked with and we were able to have a 1:1 volunteer to athlete ratio at each game. It's so strange that we're done with our first season but it's really exciting that we were able to pull it off and with what seems to have been a strong impact on a lot of people.
And, thanks to word-of-mouth, we have more than 110 volunteers on our contact list and a team of about 25 children who played baseball this year! So, if you'd like to add to this number and get involved in Play! (which is in the process of becoming incorporated and gaining non-profit status) please send an email to playnewyork@gmail.com. We will begin planning the theater portion of our program in the next month or so.