Marco Valenzuela of the Douglas Baseball Team is unable to get the tag down on Blake Neighbors of the L.A. Broncos as he slides safely into third base in last year's Memorial Day Classic.
Marco Valenzuela of the Douglas Baseball Team is unable to get the tag down on Blake Neighbors of the L.A. Broncos as he slides safely into third base in last year's Memorial Day Classic.
DOUGLAS − The 53rd Annual Memorial Day Baseball Classic between the Douglas Baseball Team and the Los Angeles Broncos will take place Saturday and Sunday, May 27-28, at Copper King Stadium.
The games are part of a scholarship fundraising effort the teams have each year.
Jesus Hughes, organizer for this weekend’s games, said five $500 scholarships will be presented Sunday to seniors who will be attending Cochise College this fall.
Game time each day is scheduled for 11 a.m. and each game will be seven innings. There is no admission fee to the games. There will be 50/50 raffles taking place both days.
Prior to Sunday’s games a commemorative plaque will be presented to the Acosta, Campas and Salinas families.
Hughes also announced that after Sunday’s game there will be a dinner and dance at the American Legion on G Avenue starting at 6 p.m. and ending at midnight. Music will be provided by Gemini.
Cost for the dinner and dance is $12 per person.
According to event organizers, the Douglas versus L.A. games began in the early 1960s when two friends, Sergio (Cananea) Brown and Ruben (Toro) Campas — both former Douglas residents — were attending a Los Angeles-area sponsored baseball league game.
Baseball talk led to talking about the fact that they could put a team together of Douglas/Agua Prieta area residents and the team became known as the Los Angeles Broncos.
An idea was formed that the team should go to Douglas every Memorial Day weekend and play teams from the Douglas area and Douglas would in turn go to Los Angeles for the Labor Day weekend and play.
Both founders have since passed away, but the tradition resumed under a new name, “The Memorial Day Classic.”
Douglas won Game One of the series last year 21-9 but lost Game Two 17-11.
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