Small Ohio town rallies to save baseball

[babsbunny]

Small Ohio town rallies to save baseball

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30904322/

updated 3:10 p.m. ET, Sat., May 23, 2009

GREENFIELD, Ohio - Memorial Day weekend often signals the start of youth baseball, and it almost didn't happen this year in this town of 5,000, where the sputtering auto industry choked off money for recreation.

But residents took a page from their famous son, "Take This Job and Shove It" singer Johnny Paycheck, and went their own way by raising money, fixing up fields, scrounging for equipment and signing up 450 kids to play.

Resident Laura Saylor, whose daughter plays baseball, said the sport is especially important now because a lot of people don't have money.

[Divine Discontent]

1. gag me! I signed out then saw this new story about the baseball situation in a small town & clicked

on it and since I was signed out, I had to see this (only part of the image) as an ad!