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Baseball, Softball Returning To Cantonment
December 21, 2015
Baseball and softball are returning to Cantonment this spring.
It’s been about three years since organized baseball or softball was played at the county-owned Cantonment Sportsplex on Well Line Road, but baseball and softball will be back in 2016.
In-person registration dates will be every Saturday in January and the first two Saturdays in February from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Details with other registration dates and online registration information will be released soon.
Teams will be available for ages 3-14. The registration fee will be $85.
Donations of new and gently-used equipment will be accepted on registration Saturdays.
More details will be shared on NorthEscambia.com as registration begins and the seasons nears.
Pictured: Volunteers were hard at work this weekend cleaning up the facilities at the Cantonment Sportsplex in anticipation of the return of baseball and softball in 2016. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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6 Responses to “Baseball, Softball Returning To Cantonment”
Very adequate facility……roads in and around complex very poor. Compared to per dido complex , Navarre, bell view , NEP etc. not-so-much…. County needs to pony-up & make this at least a competing facility. Kids need it as well as parents & grandparents. Commissioner Barry ! are you aware ? Take a ride out to the Perdido complex……what a great facility….and a boon to their area .
My cousin and several friends used to play Booth Field when we were all kids back in the early 90s. I miss those nights…lots of fun for the community. I’m glad that it is returning though. Now that I have kids of my own, I look forward to possibly getting them involved. On a side note…wasn’t Booth field destroyed by one of the Hurricanes? Ivan maybe?
To answer some of the questions. The park was miss managed and could not support the program. The county is not supporting the park financially, the only funds are from donations at this point.
I was in the program for several years at Booth field. It didn’t belong to the church at that time , it belong to Lions Club. We didn’t have any help from the county. We paid our own power and water bill. “T” Ball was started at Cantonment while I was President. We had a great group of people that worked hard. We raised half the money and the Loins Club donated the other half for new lights with Wayne Penton, James Lowe and several others doing the installation.
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Do you know why they haven’t had either in the last 3-4 years?
Why no baseball in the “Can” for the past 3 yrs.?
Nice, huge facility, used to have a vibrant turn-out when my sons played there 10-15 yrs. ago. County spent a ton of money on this park. Remember when Cantonment youth sports were using the Baptist Church fields? Really sad that this facility has been dormant.
Kudos to the folks who are working to re-establish this site for the kids…