Hillside Little League tries to make a comeback with church at the plate | Carter
(World News USA)

Hillside church goes to bat so kids can play ball. Before it folded two years ago, the Hillside Little League was a big deal. It used to kick off the season with a parade from the township`s community center, down Liberty Avenue and ending at a grand ballfield on Gurd Avenue that might as well have been a big league stadium to the kids. There was a warning track, baselines, an announcer`s box with someone calling the game. At the base of the outfield wall, panels bore the names of businesses in town, which sponsored teams and paid for the uniforms that players wore during the parade as they stuffed their mouths with Big League Chew bubble gum. Police cars and fire engines followed behind...