2004 Cincinnati Flames 12U Baseball

Flames win Knoxville Early Bird      Runners-up at Cooperstown Dreams Park

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

2004 Season Results:

• 8/01 -Final Record 68-18

• 7/30 -Flames end season Ranked 7th in the nation by USA Sports Rankings

• 7/30 -Flames end season Ranked 1st in Ohio USA Sports Rankings

• 7/27 -Flames finish 5th in the CABA Ultimate World Series

• 7/18 -Flames go 3-2 and are eliminated in the quarter-finals of the NABF World Series

• 7/10 -Flames win Sandlott Super Series League Title with 12-2 record

• 7/10 -Flames win Southwest Ohio League title with 21-1 record.

• 7/04 -Flames go 10-1 to Finish 2nd in Cooperstown Dreams Park Tournament

• 6/06 -Flames win NABF World Series Qualifier with 5-0 record

• 5/31 -Flames go 5-1 to finish 2nd in very competitive Wayne Williams Memorial Tournament

• 4/25 -Flames win rain-shortened Diamondback 13u IBC qualifier

• 4/04 -Flames win Knoxville Stars Early Bird tournament

" I don't want to play golf.  When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."

- Rogers Hornsby

"A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

- Jim Bouton