A nice night for baseball
There was everything a baseball fan could want Thursday at Little Falls Veterans Memorial Park.
It was a warm summer night for the New York Collegiate Baseball League game between the Bennington Bombers and Little Falls Miners. The NYCBL is a 14-team wooden-bat league for college players. On a nice night there are few things better than sitting outside enjoying live baseball.
On Thursday, it was so warm and humid that Digger, the Miners mascot, cooled himself by a press box fan between stints of entertaining the crowd of about 120 fans. Digger's highlight was leading a few willing fans in the 'chicken dance.'
The game was well played with Bennington scoring all its runs after the fifth inning in a 6-0 win. Little Falls had its chances. The Miners left the bases loaded in both the second and third innings. The teams will play two games in two nights - Friday in Vermont and Saturday back in Little Falls.
In the late innings, a full moon tinged with orange hung low over left field.
posted by Anne Delaney at
9:50 PM
1 Comments:
I totally agree. As a nightly supporter of the Little Falls Miners, I do have to say that there is nothing better to do in the Mohawk Valley on any given night than to watch quality college baseball in a minor league atmosphere at Veterans Memorial Park. It is a shame that not many people go out and support such an entity so similar to professional baseball. Utica once hosted a NYCBL team from 2003-2005 and it was never advertised or supported (mostly due to the lack of getting the word out that we had one (Mohawk Valley Cobras was the name)). In any event I would suggest if your in the area go out and see the Little Falls Miners because professional baseball players come from leagues like this and its a great opportunity to see top notch college stars from across the nation.
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