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If your child is the next Albert Pujols or Tim Lincecum, starting out in youth baseball is one step to finding out.
Registration for players aged seven-12 is ongoing.
Forms are available at Taggs Source for Sports and Skates & Blades.
Boys and girls aged seven and eight play in the Minor League with a pitching machine at Holler Field over in International Falls.
Boys aged nine and 10 play Major ‘B’ baseball while those aged 11 and 12 play in the Major ‘A’ league, both at Rizzo Field in the Falls.
Meanwhile, major girls’ softball, for those aged nine-12, also plays at Rizzo.
Registrar Dave Sande explained minor league players often are registered as individuals on an American-based team while the town often is able to get a Canadian team together in the Major divisions.
“For about nine or 10 years, we’ve had a team in the ‘A’ and a team in the ‘B,’ so hopefully we’ll keep doing that,” he noted.
Sande hasn’t set a deadline for registrations, but the sooner a team is filled, the sooner plans can be made.
“I don’t really put a deadline on there,” he remarked.
“Once I have teams, I call up the coaches and away they go.”
The season is slated to begin in May.
