Tommy Powell Day

Hey Guys,

In my last post I told you I would post the details on Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball's Tommy Powell Day that will take place Saturday morning beginning at 10:00 a. m., weather permitting. Here is the schedule of events.

Tommy Powell Memorial Opening Day Ceremonies for Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball.
March 28, 2009

1. Welcoming Remarks by WLBG personality and former
Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball player Randy Stevens.
2. Invocation: King Dixon, National Director, Dixie Youth
Baseball.
3. Presentation of Colors by the Laurens District 55 High
School Junior ROTC.
4. The National Anthem performed by Wyatt Mattison.
5. Remarks by: King Dixon.
6. Remarks by: Ric Polson, Dixie Youth Baseball District
Director.
7. Presentation of Plaque from the Patriot Guard to the
Powell Family by Randy Stevens, Senior Ride Captain.
8. Presentation of Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball jersey by
Eddie Brouillette, Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball Official.
9. Unveiling of Scoreboard by Laurens Dixie Youth Baseball
President Albert Wilson and the Powell Family.
10. Singing of “Take Me out to the Ball Game.” ******
11. First Pitch: Members of the Tommy Powell Family.
12. Senior Dixie Youth Baseball Umpire Euell Boland opens
the 2009 Dixie Youth Baseball season with that timeless
baseball tradition: “Play Ball!”

******Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Take Me Out to the Crowd
Buy Me Some Peanuts and CrackerJacks
I Don’t Care If I Never Get Back
So It’s Root, Root, Root For the Home Team
If They Don’t Win it’s a Shame
For It’s One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out
At the Old Ball Game!

Hope you can be there to help us honor a guy who gave so much to the young people of Laurens County.

God Bless,
The Big One