2002 Cincinnati Flames 10U Baseball

USSSA Regional Champions (Click to enlarge)

CABA Regional Champions

SWOL League Champions

Pepsi Tournament of Champions -2nd place

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it goes .... And Summer is gone
- A. Bartlet Giamatti

Record:

• 32-6    10U

• 12-10  11U

• 44-16   Overall

What's new:

• 02/07/09 Updated Schedule

 Highlighted sponsor of the week:  Ashley Development

Quotes

-Some People think baseball is just a game. They are wrong!
-Baseball is about reaching deep inside yourself to catch the ball that can't be caught and to hit the pitch that can't be hit. It is about the Soul.
-Baseball is about bad hops, bad breaks, bad throws and bad calls. It is about striking out and making errors.
-It is also about overcoming all these things. It is about redemption.
-Baseball is about kids who become stars, stars who become heroes, and heroes who become LEGENDS.

-"Heroes Baseball", -Source Unknown

 Bob Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen. . . .He always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.
-Tim McGarver, catcher

Did You Know

10% of Charles Schultz's 17,000 "Peanuts" comic strips dealt with baseball

MOST HOME RUNS HIT OFF A LAUNDRY BUILDING IN ONE GAME (3) - In a 1950 game against the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field, Dodger catcher Roy Campanella had a spotless day at the plate by blasting three towering homers that all hit a laundry building across the street. In leading his team to a 7-5 victory, Campy had put Cincy hurler Ken Raffensberger through the wringer, and hung him out to dry