Members of the Coronado little league team look out onto the sky to see if the monsoon storm approaching will delay their game against Nogales at Arthur Pack Regional Park in 2007.
Catch a ball game
Fifty years ago, local Little League executive Rudy Garcia, frustrated by a lack of places to play, let the mayor know that he and 250 parents and players would be making their own baseball diamond at Irvington and Nogales Highway. Police watched but didnβt intervene.
In 1999 overzealous parks workers, worried about the condition of the grass, were forced to relent after youth teams complained about being shut out of the fields at what is now the Kino Sports Complex.
In whatβs commonly called a basketball town, nothing stands between Tucsonans and their love for baseball. Tonight under the lights, at Kriegh, Anamax, Udall and Kennedy parks, from Oro Valley to Sahuarita, from the east side to the Tucson Mountains and points in between, thereβs a game about to start.
