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Sports News
Queer Sports
Spring–Summer 2005
Pride Community Softball League
Moving to later start time
Jordan Park has been the home to the Pride Community Softball League for twelve years. This year will be no different, except for a slight change in scheduling that will shift the Sunday starting time from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. Last year, player attendance tended to be a bit spotty in the mornings. This gave way to squinting, bloodshot stragglers who arrived in the early afternoon.
“By one o’ clock they will feel better,” said a laughing Gail Schamanek, a long time volunteer with the league.
Daniel Montoya, organizer and scorekeeper extraordinaire, is expecting eight to ten teams this year. “We always have a large group of new players that just found out about the league and are new to the area. So we try to place them on a team or hook them up as a group on one team.”
The league meets every Sunday at Jordan Park, 1050 South 1000 West, except for holidays and, of course, Pride weekend. Games will begin at the end of April and will run through mid August. A large awards banquet will follow the year-end tournament. The cost is $300 for a sponsor and $25 per player, which includes the t-shirt. In addition, at the conclusion of the three-to-four games played each Sunday, a local club will host a late luncheon or a dinner.
“We’d really like the league to prosper this year,” Schamanek said. “It’s going to be a great league. It is a lot of fun and it’s a great place for people to meet, not in clubs.” Neither the midsummer heat nor the early-season cold has kept spectators or players from the ball field in years past. The usual fare surrounds the diamond—lawn chairs, coolers and blankets, dogs wearing rainbow leashes, kids sporting HRC gear, kisses shared between same gendered couples ... typical Sundays.
Join the league or come to watch; either way, it’s guaranteed to give “one, two, three strikes you’re out” a whole new meaning.
For more information contact Daniel Montoya at
kaos168@hotmail.com or Gail Schamanek at 541-6000.
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