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Last Updated: Aug 21, 2008 - 9:25:06 PM
Dallas makes a pitch for 2010 Gay World Series
By John Wright - News Editor
Aug 21, 2008 - 8:38:08 PM
Mayor’s chief of staff heads to Seattle to help bring NAGAAA championship tournament to North Texas
Dallas’ gay softball league will be making a big pitch in Seattle on Saturday, Aug. 23.
In advance of this year’s World Series next week, the Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association is bidding to bring the event to Dallas in 2010.
Chris Heinbaugh, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s openly gay chief of staff, is scheduled to travel with the local contingent and make PSSA’s case to delegates from the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance.
Heinbaugh, who played for PSSA’s Oak Lawn Raiders this year, noted that the new Dallas Cowboys stadium will be opening in 2009, and North Texas will host the Super Bowl in 2011. The area also in the running to host the Final Four in both men’s and women’s NCAA basketball in the next few years.
“It’s just going to be a really great time in North Texas for sports, so for us to have the gay softball World
Series here, I think, would add to that excitement,” Heinbaugh said.
After Heinbaugh makes his presentation on Saturday, PSSA representatives will learn on Sunday whether the bid was successful. The other finalist to host the World Series in 2010 is Columbus, Ohio, which only recently joined NAGAAA.
PSSA, which now has 26 teams, has been a member of NAGAAA since 1983, said Greg Smith, a spokesman for the league. Dallas previously hosted the NAGAAA World Series in 2004.
“Anything can happen. You don’t want to get too cocky,” Smith said, adding that Dallas is centrally located. “But I’m hoping they say yes to us. In my heart I think we’ll get it, but it’s not up to me.”
If the NAGAAA World Series comes to Dallas in 2010, it will be from Sept. 20-25, just after the city’s Pride parade and Gay Day at Six Flags, Smith said. The World Series games would be held at Kiest Park in Oak Cliff, Mike Lewis Park in Grand Prairie and Trinity View Park in Irving.
Smith said the World Series brought about 2,000 people to Dallas in 2004.
Opening Ceremonies for this year’s World Series will be Monday, Aug. 25, with play continuing through the following Saturday.
Six teams from Dallas will be competing in the event: Uptown Vision TKO, Alexandre’s WOOFPACK, Woody’s X-plosion, the Dallas Rage, Mickey’s Maniax and the Dallas Voice Drillers.
“All the teams in my honest opinion, they have a really good shot,” Smith said.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 22, 2008.
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| A member of the Dallas Front Runners women’s softball team stretches to make a catch at first base during one of the games in the 2004 Gay World Series tournament held in Dallas. Officials with Dallas’ Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association and Chris Heinbaugh, chief of staff to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert, will be asking the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance to bring the 2010 tournament back to North Texas. - TAMMYE NASH/Dallas Voice |
In advance of this year’s World Series next week, the Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association is bidding to bring the event to Dallas in 2010.
Chris Heinbaugh, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s openly gay chief of staff, is scheduled to travel with the local contingent and make PSSA’s case to delegates from the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance.
Heinbaugh, who played for PSSA’s Oak Lawn Raiders this year, noted that the new Dallas Cowboys stadium will be opening in 2009, and North Texas will host the Super Bowl in 2011. The area also in the running to host the Final Four in both men’s and women’s NCAA basketball in the next few years.
“It’s just going to be a really great time in North Texas for sports, so for us to have the gay softball World
Series here, I think, would add to that excitement,” Heinbaugh said.
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| Chris Heinbaugh |
PSSA, which now has 26 teams, has been a member of NAGAAA since 1983, said Greg Smith, a spokesman for the league. Dallas previously hosted the NAGAAA World Series in 2004.
“Anything can happen. You don’t want to get too cocky,” Smith said, adding that Dallas is centrally located. “But I’m hoping they say yes to us. In my heart I think we’ll get it, but it’s not up to me.”
If the NAGAAA World Series comes to Dallas in 2010, it will be from Sept. 20-25, just after the city’s Pride parade and Gay Day at Six Flags, Smith said. The World Series games would be held at Kiest Park in Oak Cliff, Mike Lewis Park in Grand Prairie and Trinity View Park in Irving.
Smith said the World Series brought about 2,000 people to Dallas in 2004.
Opening Ceremonies for this year’s World Series will be Monday, Aug. 25, with play continuing through the following Saturday.
Six teams from Dallas will be competing in the event: Uptown Vision TKO, Alexandre’s WOOFPACK, Woody’s X-plosion, the Dallas Rage, Mickey’s Maniax and the Dallas Voice Drillers.
“All the teams in my honest opinion, they have a really good shot,” Smith said.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition August 22, 2008.
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