Ypsi Baseball Project

 

Founded in December 2015, the Ypsi Baseball Project was founded to help care for abandoned and run down baseball diamonds in our community.

 

We help maintain, improve and plan for the baseball infrastructure in Ypsilanti City Parks. Our efforts help foster and promote youth baseball & park use.

When budget cuts forced the City of Ypsilanti to eliminate their Parks and Recreation Department 10 years ago, maintenance on six City owned ball diamonds completely stopped.

Local groups, such as the historic Ypsi-Arbor American Little League, use and maintain three of these six ball diamonds for three months of the year. Maintaining these fields for a few months after nine months of neglect is an expensive and burdensome task, not to mention, three ball diamonds receive no maintenance at all and are no longer usable.

We have three main goals at YBP:
1) Work with city leaders and youth baseball to organize, fund and execute year-round maintenance of our baseball diamonds.

2) Provide long-range planning continuity to help secure funding for future improvements.

3) Promote youth baseball and community use of our ball diamonds by providing safe playing fields in our city parks.
 

On Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/YpsiBaseballProject/

 

Email: Conan Malmer at malmer@malmerresearch.com