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May 2 – M Ay 9, 2015 MAY 2 – MAY 9, 2015 Naamans does not ultimately coach baseball, but character. The majority of our players will not continue in competitive baseball beyond 12 years of age, but all our players will become teenagers, men, and women. The character skills our players acquire from their Naamans experiences become the League’s most lasting and pervasive contributions to their development. Like all youth sports, baseball imparts the importance of effort, teamwork, perseverance, and preparation. Arguably more than any other sport, baseball also revels in its history, and when our players step on the field, they connect to this continuum. That historic connection offers unique opportunities for Naamans to coach character, and the Negro Leagues presents the most impactful of those opportunities. Interestingly, a celebration of the Negro Leagues primarily focuses on its absence; the Negro Leagues’ greatest success was its demise due to integration. In celebrating the Negro Leagues, we introduce Naamans players to the stoic perseverance with which Jackie Robinson suffered injustice in order to end it, and Pee Wee Reese, who, with everything to lose but his sense of justice and humanity, crossed the infield and put his arm around a future lifelong friend. We also celebrate baseball fans collectively, who did not turn away from the game as it integrated, as Major League owners had feared, but instead embraced MLB all the more for the talent and joy the former Negro League players brought to the game. A celebration of the Negro Leagues also allows us to celebrate its greats. In The Natural, the protagonist, Roy Hobbs, expresses what in part motivates all great athletes: the dream of walking down the street and having people say “there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in this game.” If Naamans families react to the names Oscar Charleston, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and Wilmington’s own Judy Johnson the way they react to Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, and Stan Musial, Naamans Celebrates the Negro Leagues will help create the legacy these players were denied by their contemporaries. The Celebration will feature: A kick-off viewing of 42 will provide the players with context for the week. The showing will be held at 7pm on Saturday May 2nd in the Siegel Jewish Community Center auditorium. Tickets will be $5.00 (available for presale at the Snack Shack) and concessions will be available for purchase. The League will donate half the ticket revenue to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Throughout the Celebration, exhibits about the Negro Leagues and its players will hang at the Snack Shack, and these exhibits and links to other information will also be available on our website. For all games from Monday, May 4 through Saturday, May 9, our seven Majors division teams will wear the jerseys of seven different Negro League teams. In the tradition of Major League Baseball (and as inspired by a Pee Wee Reese comment), all jerseys will bear the number “42”. For players too young for 42, but intrigued by the jerseys and exhibits, copies of Dan Gutman’s outstanding youth books Jackie and Me and Satch and Me will be available for purchase throughout the week. The long-time Negro Leagues player, manager, and historian, Buck O’Neil, once advised: “don’t feel sorry for the black baseball player. Feel sorry for the ones who didn’t get to see them play.” Naamans coaches and players are too young to have seen these players, but, thanks to the generous support of Horizon Services, we have an opportunity to celebrate their legends, and in so doing assimilate some character lessons as well. Please direct all inquiries to: Brett A. Margolin, President Naamans Little League [email protected] (302) 750-7514 Proudly Supports Naamans Celebrates the Negro Leagues .
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