JUNE 26, 2025 Vol. 22, No. 13
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MIRACLE LEAGUE BASEBALL SEASON KICKS OFF IN SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN BY SCOTT BENTLEY sbentley@candgnews.com
BY MIKE KOURY
SOUTHFIELD — Easterseals MORC’s Miracle League celebrated opening day for its 2025 baseball season June 7 at the Southfield Civic Center’s Miracle Field. Over 550 individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities are signed up to play baseball this summer as part of the Miracle League, and opening week showed what makes the organization so impactful. “We’re off to an awesome start,” said Nick Lionas, the Miracle League’s director of adaptive recreation. “The amount of love that is exuded just from being in this environment … it’s all positive all the time.” Games are played on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the summer and every group plays at least once a week. The players are joined by volunteer “buddies” on the Miracle League adaptive field, which is custom-designed with synthetic surfaces to accommodate wheelchairs and other mobility aids.
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SOUTHFIELD — The city of Southfield is home to a number of events that celebrate and recognize the national Juneteenth holiday. This includes one event put on just by residents in their own backyards. Residents in a Southfield neighborhood have been putting on a Juneteenth celebration for the past few years in the backyards of six neighboring yards. Juneteenth is celebrated each year on June 19 and commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865. Patricia Jones, president of the Juneteenth Jubilee Committee, said the event began in 2021 while people were still dealing with social distancing amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Everybody had cabin fever and we all like to work in our yard. So social distancing, we’re always talking to each other and so forth, and we decided, well, why don’t we See JUNETEENTH on page 7A
ABOVE: Former Detroit Lions quarterback Eric Hipple throws the ceremonial first pitch with a football on Easterseals MORC Miracle League opening day. RIGHT: Michael Rogers gets a high five from the first base coach after hitting and getting to first. Photos by Patricia O’Blenes
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