Archive for August, 2009

Get involved with your kids while they enjoy the great game of baseball by becoming a junior umpire. Click Here for details. Your child will be thrilled you did and so will the Vikings baseball club.

Vikings Baseball

Junior Expo

U8, U10, U13, U15 & U17s

Viking Park, Erindale

Sunday September 6th

10 AM

Everyone is welcome!

Fun games and PRIZES!

Meet our up and coming stars and

Australian representatives.

The club would like to schedule the season starter Homerun Derby but need a an organsing team from senior players to get it under way. Please contact Alex Maddigan 0433887733 to offer your services.

For those parents of junior players and any senior players who would like to become an acredited Level 1 coach, a coaching clinic has been scheduled in August.

Coaching is a great way for people to put back into junior sport and kids will love you for it.

The cost of $15-00 will be reimbursed by the Tuggeranong baseball Club for those who attend.

Please call Brian on 0427 991 450 if you wish to attend.

For the upcoming course at the end of August, please note:

- Sat 29 August – 10am to 5pm – Sports House – 100 Maitland Street, Hackett, ACT 2902; cost of written ABF manual - $15.00;

- Sat 30 August – 10 am to 5 pm – Narrabundah Baseball Diamond

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

“There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.

“Every time a football player goes to play his trade he’s got to play from the ground up — from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.

“Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization — an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win — to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.

“It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there — to compete. To know the rules and objectives when they get in the game. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules — but to win.

“And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.

“I don’t say these things because I believe in the “brute” nature of man or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle — victorious.”

V. Lombardi

Men, women, boys and girls,  junior and senior players are invited to play baseball with Tuggeranong Baseball Club 2009 -2010. Registrations will be held at the Vikings Sports Club on 22nd August (times to be confirmed)

We’ll cater to all age groups and  hope to have fathers and children 15 years and older playing together in our C2 team.

Our congratulations go to Caleb Albrech who was selected to play for Australian Schools Baseball Team touring party for 2009. The team will tour Oregon and California in Sept - October.

This is a great honour for Caleb and a well deserved selection. Caleb has played Vikings baseball since under 10’s and appeared in several winning grand final teams as well as representing the ACT in national Championships. Well done Caleb.