Thanks to your help, we’re making some real progress with the TBR project.
The flow of e-mails and Twitter messages from people who want to help is picking up, and we still have a week left before our first deadline — the July 4, Ben Franklin Project edition of The Trentonian.
As a refresher, the best of your ideas on how to revive Trenton baseball will be featured in the print edition on July 4, when we’ll compile a full list of the suggestions we’ve gotten and, hopefully, announce some concrete steps that we’ll take as part of the initiative.
July 4, when we’ll publish a paper and web product using only free, web-based tools is a big day for our paper and our company. But in terms of the Trenton Baseball Revival, it’s only the first of many steps in our mission to bring the community together and get something done.
We’ve also gotten several e-mails from people remembering the glory days of Trenton baseball, such as the great Scroths legion teams of the 30s, 40s and 50s.
In the meantime, here’s a rundown of what you can expect on the blog and at trentonian.com over the next few days:
* Jeremy Schneider visited Six-Eleven Little League yesterday and put together this video piece with players, coaches and parents chiming in on the state of Trenton baseball.
* Jeremy also visited the West End Little League, and we’ll have that video up on the home page later today.
* Andy Edwards is headed back to Martin Luther King Park, where the North-Burg Little League team is practicing tonight at 6. After talking with North Trenton LL president Rob White last week, Andy is going to gather some feedback from some of the Burg’s players, coaches and fans.
* Billy Tharp, a three-sport varsity athlete at Robbinsville High who contributes regularly to The Teentonian, is gathering feedback from players at every school in the Colonial Valley Conference. We’ll have snippets of his findings on the blog as they come in.
* Luke Pasch is emerging as our Trenton legion beat writer. He’ll be at the game tonight against Hopewell, where Trenton will be looking for its fourth win in five games.
* George Case, whose father grew up in Trenton and went on to play for the Washington Senators and Cleveland Indians, is compiling a group of photos of his dad from the glory days of Trenton. Those kind of memories will continue to serve as the backdrop for what we’re doing going forward.
Any and all ideas and suggestions are welcome. Leave them now in the comments section here or at trentonian.com; e-mail them to me at bdoody@trentonian.com; leave them on the Trentonian.com fan page on Facebook; or send me a message on Twitter.
Looking forward to hearing from you. Let’s keep this thing going!
- Ben
