The fledgling baseball league is now set up as a mental wellness program with the Saint City Culinary Foundation. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX Baseball SanAntonioFood SanAntonioRestaurants
. The Dingers, who will host their first home game this Saturday, is a team comprised entirely of local foodservice workers.focused on providing mental health and tele-heath services to bar and restaurant workers — late last year about creating a partnership that would allow the team to operate under the foundation's umbrella.
Both Dixon and Rivas hope the general feel-good benefits of knuckle balling in the sun will draw out more industry workers. Texas is home to over a dozen sandlot teams, and Dixon maintains it’s only a matter of months before San Antonio has a handful of teams to call its own.Historical evidence suggests baseball teams may have existed in San Antonio as early as 1867, the.
In 1949, the South Texas Negro League was created and much of the talent played here in San Antonio, at Pittman-Sullivan Park — so it’s not a coincidence that the Texas Dingers have claimed that as their home field. In a 2020 interview segment, a handful of former South Texas Negro League baseball players
“These old ballplayers talk about African American boys and girls getting out of baseball, when it used to be all that they played. But now, they're more [interested in] basketball and football, and these guys have a huge desire for the African American community to have a love for baseball again,” Dixon said. “So if we could do something, just one week out of the summer that’s free to the neighborhood, I'd love to do that.
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