Joy League Baseball crowns 2018 champions

The Joy League in Homewood recently completed its 61st consecutive season of daytime baseball.

League Commissioners Perry Akins and Ted Hagler awarded championship trophies to the three teams that won their division in the league. The 2018 champions are:

      A - The Bucs, coached by Joel Aycock, Ree Hageman and Brandon Hasenfuss

    AA - The Sox, coached by Bertram Thomas, Dewery Belcher and Emily Belcher

    AAA - The Yanks, coached be Tim Meehan, Stephen McGhee and Mike Light

To end the season, each division champion played a game against an All-Star team composed of 12 players from its division.

Each year, Joy League games are played Saturday mornings on the two diamonds at Edgewood Elementary School. A total of 184 boys and girls played in the games this year. 

Established in 1958 by the late John J. Smith, Sr., the Joy League has provided a fun place to learn how to play baseball for six decades. The players, boys and girls ages 4 to 12, do not have evaluations or tryouts. Every player plays in every game. There are no bench warmers in the Joy League.

Registration to play in the 2019 season will take place at Edgewood School each Saturday in February of next year.

Submitted by Bill Hutto