Fighting for East Butler baseball
EAST BUTLER — The numbers are against them. So are the finances.
But former longtime East Butler Baseball Association president Dess Schnur and borough council president Kevin Hesidenz are trying to reorganize EBBA and keep it alive.
The association debuted in 1952 and has served more than 5,000 children through the years. The once-prosperous organization quietly faded away last year with only one team — known as Butler Youth Baseball — playing at the EBBA complex.
“My father and Bud Goldinger were co-founders of this organization,” Schnur said. “I was 9 years old and played on our first Little League team, the Indians.
“This would be the 70th anniversary of East Butler Baseball. I want it to see that birthday.”
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