Long Island ducks have flown together for 25 years.
As the 2025 season begins in Islip on Friday night, Atlantic League Ball Club full of fun is celebrating what a highly successful footprint (web bed) stamped on the island has.
“It starts with fans. We have great fans here in Long Island who support the team as if it were the highest level of the game,” said Manager Lew Ford, a Ducks gardener who played for twins in the mid -2000s and some games with the Orioles in 2012.
“It is also a great baseball. The boys who start the season can end the season in the older leagues,” Ford added of the MLB Partner independent league that has great names such as Roger Clemens and the late Rickey Henderson in the past.
The Ducks, who have won four league championships since they became a franchise in 2000, have also had their own Power Star Power of the Hall of Fame to the team towards success.
The Great Mets Gary Carter managed the team in 2009, and Bud Harrelson was co -owner and coach who was a fans known for working with Kids in Team Clinics.
“I ended up training with Buddy later,” Ford said. “He was such a personal guy, and seeing him interact with fans and players, he loved him. He was one of the best.”
Juyos, the team shows a Pete Rose Cincinnati Reds shirt in an stadium bar area as a tribute to the failures between Harrelson and Rose Duration The 1973 NLCS.
This season, however, the Ducks are looking towards the future and not the days of Gloria past.
The team installed a new grass field with Basepath of bright orange color, and Ford described the “a great update” movement by 2025.
Long Island, who constantly has a league leader in attendance thanks to the funny fan games in the field between tickets and the Quackerjack duck pet, is also reinforcing his local season with several fireworks nights that typically sell the 6000 ST stadium.
“They are not just fans, players also love those games,” Ford said. “We bring our families on those nights. We are seeing a great year ahead.”
In the children’s lacrosse, Massapequa receives Port Washington at 5 pm on Friday, and at the Lacrosse de las Girls, South Side receives Kellenberg on Saturday at 1 pm
