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https://www.change.org/playballsafelynewyork
"Play Ball. Stay Safe."
The NY Baseball Coalition is a group of baseball programs, organizations and industry leaders formed to support youth athletes, coaches, umpires and baseball businesses.
We recognize the importance of baseball to our communities and how it can be a key building block not only to our physical health, but to our mental health as well. Being part of a team helps build character, leadership and community. This is something we need now more than ever.
Our goal is to provide a safe way to reopen baseball. We want a dialogue with governing officials as to how to reopen baseball activities. We have safe solutions to propose. "Play Ball. Stay Safe."
Reopening golf was a good step for communities, but mostly affluent people play golf with a significant portion of them being retirees who are considered “most at-risk” for serious Covid-related complications. According to the National Golf Foundation, golfers 65+ played 3x as many rounds annually as those aged 18-34. Similarly turkey hunting and tennis is not easily accessible for a cross-section of NY residents. It is time to consider merits of opening up baseball!
The baseball ecosystem supports people of all ages and socioeconomic classes, but mostly younger people. Younger people are considerably less at-risk than retiree-aged people with respect to Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths. People under 20 years old have ONLY accounted for approximately 1% of all Covid-related hospitalizations in NY. In contrast, over 86% of all Covid-related deaths in NY are people over 60 years old.
Baseball is a low risk outdoor sport with limited contact and the sport should get the same opportunity as hunting, golf, and tennis to open up safely.
We ask the Governor and County Executives to allow us back out on the baseball field safely. We ask for an opportunity to present various safety measures, such as, limiting the number of players/spectators, wearing masks, sanitizing hands/equipment, temperature checks, no concessions, no handshakes or high fives and more. The signers of this petition believe that not allowing baseball to be played in New York this spring/summer will have a profoundly negative impact on the community's health, both physically and mentally. It's time to Play Ball. And Stay Safe.
Send this petition to your friends/teammates/parents/coaches/elected officials.
Send along to our/your softball sisters too!
Updates
June 10, 2020
The momentum is incredible. This shows how much New York cares about getting kids back on the field.
12 Comments
My son is driving me crazy at home. Let these kids get outside and play already.
BASEBALL NOW. It is safer than the grocery store honestly.
Every child should have a hobby
SLyOWhTu
Hello, Let's play ball!
Additional ideas for SD rules: *Attendance limited to immediate family of players. (Promote social distancing) (if needed could be limited to one parent) *Bring own chairs, no bleachers. *No concessions. *All players wear face covering except batter and pitcher. *Limit players in dugout to 5… others wait by parents. *Umpires call pitches from behind pitcher to maintain distance. *All catchers must provide their own mask. (no sharing) *Provide separate baseballs for home and visitor use. (could spray baseballs with Microban 24 sanitizer) *All players who touch the ball in the field must use hand sanitizer on reaching dugout.
Please restart the baseball season..It is a non contact sport.
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Most people are now signing this one (same coalition), go ahead and do that:
https://www.change.org/playballsafelynewyork
"Play Ball. Stay Safe."
The NY Baseball Coalition is a group of baseball programs, organizations and industry leaders formed to support youth athletes, coaches, umpires and baseball businesses.
We recognize the importance of baseball to our communities and how it can be a key building block not only to our physical health, but to our mental health as well. Being part of a team helps build character, leadership and community. This is something we need now more than ever.
Our goal is to provide a safe way to reopen baseball. We want a dialogue with governing officials as to how to reopen baseball activities. We have safe solutions to propose. "Play Ball. Stay Safe."
Reopening golf was a good step for communities, but mostly affluent people play golf with a significant portion of them being retirees who are considered “most at-risk” for serious Covid-related complications. According to the National Golf Foundation, golfers 65+ played 3x as many rounds annually as those aged 18-34. Similarly turkey hunting and tennis is not easily accessible for a cross-section of NY residents. It is time to consider merits of opening up baseball!
The baseball ecosystem supports people of all ages and socioeconomic classes, but mostly younger people. Younger people are considerably less at-risk than retiree-aged people with respect to Covid-related hospitalizations and deaths. People under 20 years old have ONLY accounted for approximately 1% of all Covid-related hospitalizations in NY. In contrast, over 86% of all Covid-related deaths in NY are people over 60 years old.
Baseball is a low risk outdoor sport with limited contact and the sport should get the same opportunity as hunting, golf, and tennis to open up safely.
We ask the Governor and County Executives to allow us back out on the baseball field safely. We ask for an opportunity to present various safety measures, such as, limiting the number of players/spectators, wearing masks, sanitizing hands/equipment, temperature checks, no concessions, no handshakes or high fives and more. The signers of this petition believe that not allowing baseball to be played in New York this spring/summer will have a profoundly negative impact on the community's health, both physically and mentally. It's time to Play Ball. And Stay Safe.
Send this petition to your friends/teammates/parents/coaches/elected officials.
Send along to our/your softball sisters too!
Updates
June 10, 2020
The momentum is incredible. This shows how much New York cares about getting kids back on the field.
12 Comments
we need sports back for the kids mental health. tired of them staring at screens all day
My son is driving me crazy at home. Let these kids get outside and play already.
BASEBALL NOW. It is safer than the grocery store honestly.
Every child should have a hobby
SLyOWhTu
Hello, Let's play ball!
Additional ideas for SD rules: *Attendance limited to immediate family of players. (Promote social distancing) (if needed could be limited to one parent) *Bring own chairs, no bleachers. *No concessions. *All players wear face covering except batter and pitcher. *Limit players in dugout to 5… others wait by parents. *Umpires call pitches from behind pitcher to maintain distance. *All catchers must provide their own mask. (no sharing) *Provide separate baseballs for home and visitor use. (could spray baseballs with Microban 24 sanitizer) *All players who touch the ball in the field must use hand sanitizer on reaching dugout.
Please restart the baseball season..It is a non contact sport.
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we need sports back for the kids mental health. tired of them staring at screens all day