Roosevelt Island Stars Traveling Kids Baseball Team Playing At Pony Field

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Roosevelt Island resident Jamal Perry reports on the Roosevelt Island Stars, a traveling baseball team of 10-12 year ballplayers from Roosevelt Island:

The Roosevelt Island Stars is the name of our travel team. About 2 yrs ago we gathered a group of kids that wanted to play more competitive baseball who were from our community within the ages of 10-12 yrs old and formed a baseball team that travels to Brooklyn, Manhattan, Bronx,  Queens and Long Island.

We play different teams about 3 times a week and have also entered the Roosevelt Island Stars baseball team in upstate New York tournaments. Those games consist of 3 to 6 games within a 3 day period.

I had a dream many years ago to start a travel team so that the children on the island would be able to show case their athletic abilities with outside competition rather than just playing their friends every week.

Being a long time resident and raising my family on Roosevelt island as well as volunteering as a coach for my sons sports teams, I realized how important this dream was and with the help of my assistant coach Carolyn Christianson and my older son Javon Perry our dream came true. We have been able to provide this amazing experience for these children through fundraising by our parents with bake sales and food sales.

We pay for umpire fees , baseballs, bats as well as hotel and travel expenses. I teach the children that school is first and sports is second.. But when you put those two together you create an amazing tool for these children to carry through their lives. Ask any of my kids from past teams that still call me coach.

Here are the Roosevelt Island Stars playing on a recent weekend at the Pony Field.



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