Hello Aitkin Baseball Families-

As some of you know, Aitkin Baseball is hosting a youth tournament here in the great city of Aitkin on the weekend of May 9th.  The board is looking at this as an advantage to our program by keeping the players and families home for a tournament, bringing people into our community, and as a fundraiser.  To gain all of these advantages we will be asking for your help.  

To discuss the tournament further we will be having a meeting at the 40 Club Wednesday April 30th at 7:30 PM.  Our regular board meeting will be held prior at 6PM, which you are also welcome to join us for. 

Opportunities to help will be conveyed in more detail soon, but for now we would love for you to “Save The Date”.  We will be looking for volunteers to do field maintenance between games and concessions stand work(multiple locations).  Each age level will be staying at the same field the entire weekend, so you can volunteer at anytime at the location of your field, allowing you to be sure you can see and cheer on Aitkin while you help.  

·       9AA will be at The Roost behind Rippleside

·       10A will be at Connie Lueck Field

·       11A will be at JV Softball Field

·       12A will be the Varsity Softball Field

·       13AA will be at the Hayfield

·       14/15A will be at Woock Field

We will be leaning on the HS and JV players for umpiring (lower levels) and field maintenance all around. We will need a “field boss” to support the between game maintenance at each field.  We will need a couple machines to pull drags at the Hayfield, and the two softball fields, like a side by side or four wheeler, or compact tractor.  

SignUp Genius will be utilized to make sure we have coverage all weekend long at each “station”.   Teamwork makes the dreamwork, so hopefully you can give us a little bit of your weekend so that many hands make light work.  

We hope to see you at the meeting April 30th, or on SignUp Genius or both!  

Thanks so much in advance for you help, it should be fun to have baseball played here in town- and at most levels we are hosting a state qualifier!  

Thanks

Aitkin Area Youth Baseball Board

SAVE THE DATE

Wednesday, May 21 at Rippleside

Meet the coaches, jersey pick up, team photos, concession stand sign up, and more!  More details coming soon.