Joy League Baseball completes 60th season
The Joy League in Homewood recently completed its 60th consecutive season of daytime baseball.
League commissioners Perry Akins and Ted Hagler awarded championship trophies to teams that won their division in the league. The 2017 champions include:
A - The Bucs, coached by Andy Wilson and John David Owen
AA - The Yanks, coached by Isabella Rohr, John Krusinski, Keon Davis, Joel Bishop and James Stephani
AAA - The Yanks, coached by Tim Meehan, Stephen McGhee, Tyler Wright, 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 181 boys and girls played in League games this year.
Established in 1958 by the late John J. Smith Sr., the Joy League provides its third generation of players a fun place to learn how to play baseball. Those players, boys and girls ages 4-12, do not have evaluations or tryouts. Every player plays in every game. There are no benchwarmers in the Joy League.