The Harbour City Pirates are Sydney’s newest baseball club and will launch into competition this coming summer after the football season.
On April 14, with the support of Baseball NSW, a state-level Little League coach and the Department of Sport and Recreation’s Active After School Program, the Pirates ran a free baseball clinic in Centennial Park for primary-school-aged children. Although the clinic was only promoted for 10 days, there were 42 registrations, which shows the keen interest in this sport.
Unfortunately, the weather was cold and windy and the afternoon session designed for the older players was washed out. The morning was a great success, however, with four squads (U7s, 8s, 9s and 10s) all reporting they had an awesome time.
The focus of the club is to make friends and have fun so that all the benefits that are derived from participation in sport will naturally flow on. The Pirates have adopted and designed drills that seem just like games, and have modified equipment for a natural progression into match play. Further free clinics involving the current support team will be run between now and September.
