Let the games begin: Palm Coast Little League kicks off with 600 ball players

Palm Coast Little League kicked off its 2016 spring campaign with a record amount of participants.

  • By Jeff Dawsey
  • | 7:54 a.m. February 29, 2016
  • Palm Coast Observer
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After celebrating the World War II plane’s flyover, thousands of eyes focused their attention back to the baseball diamond for the Palm Coast Little League opening ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 27, at Indian Trails Park.

The league welcomed over 600 kids to play baseball and softball, the most for any of its seasons.

“The hard work by many people to make it happen was well worth it,” said Patrick Johnan, the league’s president. “A fly-over by a World War II plane, a surprise from a Navy Airman to watch his little brother play baseball after being gone over 2 years -- the day couldn't have gone better.

 

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