Here it is the middle of January, in a few days the youth of Pleasant Hill, Creswell, Dexter, Lowell and the surrounding areas will start to train and register for the Spring season of the Babe Ruth League baseball league. In Oregon’s Willamette Valley organized youth baseball is much more than just a fun kid sport. Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken and Little League baseball is a time for families to participate together as they support our youth and the community. [Read more...]
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About Babe Ruth League Baseball and Pleasant Hill Youth Baseball Teams
The Babe Ruth League is a youth baseball program that was started in 1951 by a group of men who met in Trenton, New Jersey and first registered the program as the Little Bigger League. In 1954 Claire Ruth the widow of Babe Ruth gave permission to the group to rename the organization the Babe Ruth League. Upon giving her blessing to the name change Claire Ruth had stated, “Babe Ruth was a man who love children and baseball; he could receive no greater tribute than to have a baseball program named after him.” [Read more...]
