| Opening Day: What to Expect |
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For many of our new families who may not
be familiar with the league yet, we wanted to introduce you to Opening Day and
the festivities around the event.
While games have already begun,
Opening Day is our official start to the new season. We hold a ceremony at
Serra Park in Sunnyvale on Saturday, March 14th. The ceremony will start
promptly at 9:00am. We ask that all players arrive in full uniform at the park
no later than 8:40am so that we may stage them for introductions.
Players and coaches will line up in the outfield on Serra Field 1 and will be
introduced by team. We ask that parents congregate outside the field boundaries
either behind the backstop, in the bleachers, down the foul lines or beyond the
outfield fences.
Feel free to take lots of pictures. You can submit
those to your team admin for possible inclusion in our annual yearbook at the
end of the season.
After we introduce the teams, we'll have the
National Anthem played by the Cherry Chase Band, then we will throw out the
ceremonial first pitch of the season.
Opening Day is also a chance for
us to thank all of those folks who help with the league. Our board members,
umpires, city officials, sponsors and volunteers all play a role in making the
season a reality. So we will take a moment to say THANK YOU!
We will
also recognize our 2025 postseason teams that won championships last summer.
After that it's time to play baseball! We try to schedule every team
to play on Opening Day, so some games will happen at Serra Park and some at De
Anza Park.
We're still working on the logistics, but we hope to have
fully stocked snack shacks open throughout the day. We will also have some
Sunnyvale Little League swag for sale at Serra Park, along with the world
famous Kona Shave Ice Truck (which will also serve as a fundraiser for the
league).
The day is all about baseball, so grab a hamburger or hot dog
and a cold drink from the snack shack and settle in for some great early season
action on the baseball diamond!
Let's PLAY BALL!
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