ABERDEEN, MD - TOUR STOP

August 17-21, 2006

The end of August means summer’s leaving us and school’s beginning. It also means two of youth baseball’s biggest events are going on, and the Baseball Youth Road Trip will be there to see them. First, we stopped in Aberdeen, Md., for the final three days of the Cal Ripken World Series.

We got the zone going just beyond the outfield wall, and once we got the cards and prize wheel out it was like kids were magnetized to them. The first day we were there we had a special game called ‘Pack Wars,’ and the game was full of incredible new prizes. Kids walked away with figurines, card sets, an Ichiro jersey and someone even won an Xbox system with two games.

The kids were extremely loud this weekend, and with so many of them our ears are still ringing. They were all so excited to play the Baseball Card Challenge and our new game, Pack Wars. We probably spent more time with some of the kids this weekend than their parents.

As far as the World Series went, a team from Hawaii won it all for the second straight year. Mexico made it to the finals for the third straight year, but they could not figure out a way to keep the powerful Hawaii hitters from scoring runs.

Only one more stop remains, and it’s Williamsport, Pa., for the Little League World Series.

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