Little League baseball players in the Cayman Islands will get quality instruction from a Chicago outfit.
The Field of Dreams facility in George Town will host a three-day clinic this holiday weekend. Slated for Saturday-Monday, 21-23 January, the sessions focus on reinforcing fundamentals.
The tentative schedule for the clinic sees a skills refresher course on Saturday and team training basics on Sunday and Monday with exhibition contests slated for Heroes Day.
Most of the visiting coaches from the BullSox Training Academy in Chicago have been to Cayman before. Instructor James Nash (a former Major League Baseball player with the Oakland Athletics, Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies), pitching coach and scout Larry Owens and hitting/fielding instructor Sam Zagorac (who visited last November with pitching guru Marty Kobernus) are all no strangers to these shores.
A new visitor to Cayman will be former pro and three-time World Series winner Devon ‘Devo’ White. The current White Sox minor league instructor rose to the top of professional baseball in 1995 with the Toronto Blue Jays, 1997 with the Florida Marlins and 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Interestingly Devo has a Caribbean connection as he was originally born in Kingston, Jamaica.
The upcoming camp starts the sixth year of the partnership between the Cayman Islands Little League and the academy.
For the record, local Little League is going into its 23rd season of operation. The Spring season is designed for youngsters aged 5-18 and will feature numerous divisions from T-Ball right up to senior (aimed at kids 16-years-old and over). In anticipation of the new season, local little League recently staged registration and tryouts, which included a skill level evaluation for all participants.
After the White Sox clinics comes the season kickoff social with multiple exhibition games on Saturday, 28 January.
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