Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
New York Yankees honored the Bayonne Division of Recreation Buddy Baseball League in a pre-game ceremony August 8 at home against the Blue Jays. Pictured are supervisor of recreation Pete Amadeo with Buddy Baseball Players Matthew, Gabriel, Taylor, Jacob, and Joseph; their parents; and grandparent. The division would like to thank Yankees’ Director of Community …
The Division of Recreation will host an open gym on the first and third Sundays of the month from October to April, at the Rich Korpi Ice Rink Gym from 12:15 – 1:30 p.m. Participants in the Special Needs Sports Program will have access to equipment along and along with monthly activities. Forms for city …
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Restored Order of Bayonne and Jersey City Men’s Wooden-Bat Softball League captured its third championship in four seasons defeating Whatever in a best-of-three-game series at Bayonne Hudson County Park. Pictured front row from left are Mark Ciaston, Ed Conklin, Wayne Colgrove, Billy Kellner and Coach Tom Bilak; and back row Mike Vasquez, Scott Lewkowitz, Pat …
Division of Recreation 2015 Sandlot Baseball Camp for kids ages 5 to 13 met for five weeks 16th Street Park. Campers learned the fundamentals of baseball in a fun, safe atmosphere.
When they arrived at the start of training camp with the New York Giants a few weeks ago, there was no way that Robert Ayers and Jonathan Casillas knew each other. After all, the two seven-year NFL veterans came from totally different backgrounds. Defensive end Ayers went to the University of Tennessee, was drafted by …
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Jagan Mosely was going to face a tough decision when making his choice for a future college. An academic standout at St. Anthony where he plays basketball and has a good chance of being his class valedictorian, Mosely was going to take his 4.2 grade point average and high Scholastic Aptitude Test scores to the …
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Kamil Laszczyk was a diminutive featherweight boxer from a city called Wroclan in his native Poland in 2010, when he learned of a Polish businessman that was helping Polish boxers in the United States. With that, Laszczyk reached out to Mariusz “Mark” Kolodziej, the owner and operator of the successful Hudson Bread Company and Breadman …
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AWARDING BASES QUESTION: In high school, baseball and softball, runner on second base; count on batter is one ball and one strike; pitcher releases a pitch which bounces into ground before home plate and gets stuck in backstop fence. Is catcher allowed to retrieve ball by taking it out of fence? If bases are awarded, …
The Bayonne Women’s Golf Association Link-n-Ladies finish the season with their annual “Golf Outing” October 3 at New Jersey’s Spring Meadow Golf Course in Farmingdale. Women began the group in 2000 for novice players and to promote sportsmanship, good health among city residents, and offer ways of giving back to the community. For information, on …
Pictured are Bayonne Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball League winners Isaac Young of Modell’s Sporting Goods team and student at Henry Harris School; Alex Lambos of AFC team and student at All Saints Catholic Academy; and Rami Amin of Bergen Point Pharmacy team and student at Walter F. Robinson School. The three will be recognized at …