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Play Ball: Opening Day for Westside Baseball

Youth baseball league celebrates 50th year with parade, first pitches from dignitaries.

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West Baseball of Oak Lawn opened its 50th season as an organization on Saturday with a parade through the neighborhood and ceremonial first pitches from a congressman and the village clerk.

Watch the video of Opening Day.

Most people marched and those standing along the curb joined the parade of kids in their team uniforms marching toward Pacetti Field in Centennial Park.

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Patch wishes all the Westside players, coaches, parents and grandparents a great season of baseball.

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