00:10 - >>A KEY PRESIDENT CEO OF PONY

00:12 - BASEBALL

00:12 - AND SOFTBALL WELCOME TO PONY

00:14 - BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

00:16 - INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

00:17 - LOCATED IN NORTH FRANKLIN

00:19 - TOWNSHIP IN THE CITY OF

00:20 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA,

00:21 - WASHINGTON COUNTY. THIS

00:23 - BUILDING IS ABOUT 14 YEARS OLD

00:25 - AS THE CURRENT HIM TO OUR

00:26 - BEAUTIFUL HALL OF FAME AND

00:28 - MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL

00:30 - HEADQUARTERS STAFF FROM 6

00:32 - ORIGINAL TEAMS HERE IN

00:33 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA.

00:35 - WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GROW THE

00:36 - ORGANIZATION OVER THE PAST 7

00:38 - YEARS TO MORE THAN 500,000

00:40 - ANNUAL PARTICIPANTS, BOYS AND

00:42 - GIRLS FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE

00:44 - ALL 50 STATES MORE THAN 50

00:46 - OTHER COUNTRIES. ALL PLAYING

00:49 - THE GREAT GAMES AND BASEBALL

00:50 - AND SOFTBALL PONY STANDS FOR

00:52 - PROTECT OUR NATION'S YOU P O

00:55 - AND WHY THAT SLOW IN THAT

00:57 - AFTERNOON AS IS ACCURATE TODAY

01:00 - AS IT WAS IN THE FOUNDING IN

01:01 - 1951.

01:04 - IN THIS ALCOVE WE HAVE A LOT OF

01:05 - PICTORIAL HISTORY OF PONY

01:07 - BASEBALL

01:07 - AND SOFTBALL STARTING WITH THE

01:09 - 1951 PONY LEAGUE WORLD'S OR

01:12 - PONY LEAGUE

01:12 - CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM FROM

01:14 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA AND

01:15 - ORIOLES THAT WAS THE VERY

01:17 - FIRST YEAR THAT WE HAD 6

01:19 - POLLING TEAMS HERE IN

01:20 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA.

01:22 - 1952 WASHINGTON HAD A TEAM IN

01:25 - THE PONY LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

01:27 - THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THAT

01:29 - TEAM, THE FIRST

01:30 - EVER TEAM THAT PLAYED IN THE

01:32 - PAY OF THE WORLD SERIES FROM

01:33 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA.

01:35 - MONONGAHELA PENNSYLVANIA FROM

01:36 - WASHINGTON COUNTY WON THE 1954.

01:39 - PONY LEAGUE WORLD SERIES AND IN

01:42 - 1955, THE HOST TEAM FROM

01:44 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA.

01:45 - WHEN THE PLAY IN THE WORLD

01:46 - SERIES FOR THE FIRST AND ONLY

01:48 - TIME.

01:51 - HERE WE HAVE A

01:51 - COLLECTION OF UNIFORM THOMPSON

01:53 - HAVE BEEN DONATED BY PLAYERS

01:54 - AND

01:54 - TEAMS REPRESENTING PONY LEAGUE

01:57 - WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS

01:59 - US ALL OF OUR OTHER AGE GROUPS

02:01 - TONY AS WORLD SERIES

02:02 - COMPETITION, STARTING AT 9

02:04 - ENDING ANY TEAM IN BASEBALL AND

02:06 - SOFTBALL AS WELL. THESE

02:07 - UNIFORMS REPRESENT MANY OF THE

02:09 - STATES THE PLAY PONY BASEBALL

02:12 - AND OTHER COUNTRIES, INCLUDING

02:13 - TAIWAN, GREAT BRITAIN, MEXICO,

02:16 - EVEN

02:17 - PUERTO RICA OF THOSE 500,000

02:19 - KIDS A PLAY ON AN

02:20 - ANNUAL BASIS ABOUT 30 TO 40,000

02:23 - OF THEM ARE FROM OUTSIDE THE

02:24 - UNITED STATES. THIS IS A GREAT

02:26 - WAY FOR US TO

02:27 - TO HONOR SEE THE

02:30 - UNIFORM TOPS FROM SOME OF THOSE

02:32 - WORLD SERIES TEAMS IN DIFFERENT

02:33 - PARTS OF THE WORLD.

02:36 - WE'RE HERE AND PONY LEAGUE

02:39 - HEADQUARTERS HALL OF FAME AND

02:40 - MUSEUM AND OVER THE YEARS WE'VE

02:42 - BEEN THE BENEFACTOR OF THE

02:44 - NUMBER OF HISTORICALLY

02:45 - SIGNIFICANT PIECES THAT PLAYED

02:47 - A ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF

02:49 - PONY BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL

02:51 - STARTING IN THE EARLY 1950'S

02:53 - WE'VE BEEN THIS PLAYING AND

02:55 - HAVE DONE HAD DONATED

02:57 - NEW FORMS BACK FROM THE EARLY

03:00 - 1950'S IN THE EARLY 1960'S THE

03:02 - THE TYPICAL GRAY FLANNEL.

03:04 - SOME

03:04 - CATCHERS MITTS BALLS AND

03:08 - SOUVENIRS FROM DIFFERENT WORLD

03:09 - SERIES SHOULD PONY BASEBALL AND

03:11 - SOFTBALL.

03:13 - THE FIRST PRESIDENT

03:14 - OF PONY BASEBALL BACK IN THE

03:16 - EARLY 1950'S WAS THE FAMOUS

03:18 - ACTOR AND COMEDIAN

03:20 - JOEY BROWN. HE WAS A

03:22 - FAMOUS VAUDEVILLE ACTOR AND

03:24 - COMEDIAN AND PLAYED IN MANY B

03:26 - MOVIES. MOST FAMOUS PROBABLY IS

03:29 - SOME LIKE IT HOT WITH MARILYN

03:30 - MONROE. HE WAS AN ENTERTAINER

03:33 - AND HE LIVED IN HOLLYWOOD AND

03:35 - HIS SON. JOEL

03:37 - BROWN WAS THE GENERAL MANAGER

03:38 - OF THE PITTSBURGH PIRATES WIN

03:39 - PONY WAS FOUNDED IN THE EARLY

03:41 - 1950'S WHEN PONY APPROACH THE

03:44 - PITTSBURGH PIRATES FOR SOME

03:45 - SUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF

03:48 - PONY LEAGUE BASEBALL.

03:49 - JOEL BROWN

03:50 - INTRODUCED LOU MAYS, THE SECOND

03:52 - PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION

03:54 - AND ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL

03:55 - FOUNDERS, A PONY BASEBALL

03:56 - AND SOFTBALL TO JOEY BROWN, THE

03:58 - FAMOUS ACTOR

03:59 - AND COMEDIAN. JOE YOU GROUND

04:01 - LOU HAYES THEN CRISSCROSS THE

04:03 - NATION BY TRAIN AN AIRPLANE.

04:05 - TELLING THE STORY OF PONY

04:06 - BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL AND FROM

04:08 - THOSE HUMBLE 6 ORIGINAL TEAMS

04:11 - HERE IN WASHINGTON

04:11 - PENNSYLVANIA. JULIE BROWN LOU,

04:13 - HAYES HELP

04:14 - GROW PONY TO THE NATIONAL AND

04:16 - AND LATER ON INTERNATIONAL

04:18 - ORGANIZATION THAT WE

04:19 - ARE TODAY. OUR 3RD PRESIDENT

04:21 - WAS ROY GILLESPIE A NEWSPAPER

04:23 - MAN FROM SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS

04:25 - WHO SERVED IN THAT CAPACITY

04:26 - UNTIL 1995 WHEN I

04:28 - BECAME PONY BASEBALL AND

04:30 - SOFTBALL.

04:33 - AS PART OF OUR HISTORY WE

04:34 - COLLECT SIGNED BASEBALLS

04:36 - FROM SOME OF OUR PLAYERS OUR

04:38 - TEAMS AND ALUMNI

04:40 - THIS PARTICULAR BASEBALL SIGNED

04:42 - BY ABOUT 16 MAJOR LEAGUE

04:44 - BASEBALL HALL OF FAMERS

04:46 - AND THAT CAME TO US FROM CHIP

04:47 - BEACH ARE FORMER SOUTH ZONE,

04:49 - VICE PRESIDENT AND ONE OF OUR

04:51 - MOST COLLECTIBLES 2021 BRONCO

04:55 - 11 WORLD SERIES IN RICHMOND,

04:57 - VIRGINIA. CHESTERFIELD

05:00 - IT WAS SIGNED BY AUBREY EASILY

05:01 - THE BATTER

05:03 - THE PICTURES AB REAL SHAW FROM

05:05 - CHESTERFIELD VIRGINIA. SO IS A

05:07 - HISTORIC MOMENT IN OUR HISTORY

05:09 - TO HAVE 2 GIRLS

05:10 - FACE ONE ANOTHER IN THE BRONCO

05:12 - 11 WORLD SERIES IN CHESTERFIELD

05:13 - VIRGINIA.

05:16 - TONY IS A VOLUNTEER

05:18 - ORGANIZATION BUILD ON THE

05:19 - SUCCESS OF HAVING VOLUNTEERS AT

05:22 - THE LOCAL LEAGUE LEVEL AND IT'S

05:24 - A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

05:25 - LEVEL. HERE WE HAVE THE PONY

05:27 - WALL OF FAME WHERE WE HONOR

05:29 - INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WHO

05:30 - HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT

05:31 - CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE

05:32 - ORGANIZATION OVER AN EXTENDED

05:34 - PERIOD

05:34 - OF TIME WE HONOR THESE

05:36 - INDIVIDUALS WITH THE

05:37 - CONTRIBUTION TO OUR BUILDING

05:38 - FUND AND WE HONOR THEM FOR

05:41 - THEIR WORK

05:42 - AND PERSEVERANCE AND ASSISTANCE

05:44 - AND HELPING US DEVELOP PONY

05:45 - BASEBALL SOFTBALL OR WHITE.

05:49 - AS PART OF OUR HISTORICAL

05:50 - COLLECTION HERE IN PONY

05:51 - BASEBALL HEADQUARTERS WE'VE

05:53 - ACQUIRED OVER THE YEARS A

05:55 - SIGNIFICANT NUMBER

05:56 - OF TROPHIES AND WARS AND THEN

05:58 - PRESENTED TO OUR PLAYERS AND

06:00 - OUR TEAMS. FROM 1955 ONLY WORLD

06:04 - SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY

06:06 - TO A RECENT

06:07 - 1955 INDIVIDUAL PLAYER TROPHY

06:10 - THAT WAS BROUGHT IN BY THE

06:11 - MANSFIELD FAMILY HERE IN

06:12 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA, THEY

06:14 - FOUND THIS ONLINE

06:15 - FOR SALE MADE A PURCHASE AND

06:18 - DONATE IT OR INTERNATIONAL

06:19 - HEADQUARTERS MUSEUM. SO WE'RE

06:21 - VERY PROUD OF THE THE

06:23 - INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM

06:24 - ACCOMPLISHMENT

06:24 - AND TROPHIES THAT WE HAVE HERE

06:26 - PONY BASEBALL SOFTBALL

06:27 - HEADQUARTERS.

06:30 - IN ADDITION TO OUR HALL

06:31 - OF FAME AND MUSEUM

06:32 - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE SPACE AND

06:34 - SHOULD BEGIN RECEIVING AREA.

06:36 - WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CONFERENCE

06:37 - ROOM HERE WHERE WE HAVE OUR

06:38 - INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF

06:40 - DIRECTORS MEETING AND MANY

06:41 - OTHER. COMMITTEE MEETINGS

06:43 - THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE

06:44 - YEAR. WE ALSO HAVE A SMALL

06:46 - DISPLAY AREA NEAR

06:48 - ONE OF OUR PRIZED PIECES

06:50 - UNIFORM FROM

06:51 - LUFKIN TEXAS. BACK IN THE EARLY

06:55 - 19 EARLY 1950'S AND THIS WAS

06:57 - DONATED BY. JERRY REGISTER.

07:01 - PLAYED IN THAT WORLD SERIES.

07:14 - WELCOME TO HISTORIC LOU MAYS

07:16 - PONY FIELD LOCATED IN

07:18 - WASHINGTON PARK IN WASHINGTON

07:20 - PENNSYLVANIA. THE VERY FIRST

07:22 - PONY LEAGUE FIELD IN

07:24 - THE WORLD BUILT IN 1951 IN 1952

07:28 - WITH A

07:28 - ONE CENT AMUSEMENT TAX ON MOVIE

07:31 - THEATER TICKETS IN THE CITY OF

07:32 - WASHINGTON. LA'S PONY FIELD

07:35 - FIRST HOSTED THE PARTY IN THE

07:36 - WORLD SERIES. IN 1953. THE

07:39 - WINNER THAT YEAR FAIRMONT

07:40 - WEST VIRGINIA.

07:42 - 1954. WHEN A GALA PENNSYLVANIA,

07:46 - 1955

07:47 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA, THE

07:49 - FIRST AND ONLY TIME THE HOST IS

07:50 - ONE OF THE PONY LEAGUE WORLD

07:51 - SERIES.

07:53 - BLUE HAZE PONY FIELD IS

07:54 - ALSO HOME TO THE LOCAL PONY

07:56 - LEAGUE IN WASHINGTON YOUTH

07:58 - BASEBALL, WASHINGTON YOUTH

08:00 - BASEBALL UTILIZE THIS FACILITY

08:02 - FOR US 1314 YEAR-OLD BASEBALL

08:04 - PLAYERS IN THE COUNTY OF

08:05 - WASHINGTON. FROM APRIL UNTIL

08:07 - JULY.

08:10 - IN ADDITION TO THE

08:11 - LOCAL PONY LEE OF COURSE,

08:12 - LOUISE PONY FIELD EVERY YEAR

08:14 - HOST, THE ANNUAL PONY LEAGUE

08:15 - WORLD SERIES. THIS PLACE IS

08:17 - PACKED WITH OVER 3,000 GUESTS

08:20 - FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO COME

08:21 - TO SEE THE BEST 1314 YEAR-OLD

08:23 - BASEBALL PLAYERS. PONY LEAGUE

08:25 - BASEBALL AS PUT HELP PUT

08:27 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA ON THE

08:28 - MAP AS

08:29 - A DESTINATION AS A TOURIST

08:31 - DESTINATION AS A PLACE TO WATCH

08:33 - SOME OF THE BEST YOUTH BASEBALL

08:34 - IN THE WORLD.

08:35 - NOT ONLY IS LA'S PONY FEEL THE

08:37 - COMMUNITY ASSET WITH THE PEOPLE

08:39 - HERE IN WASHINGTON COUNTY TAKE

08:40 - GREAT PRIDE

08:40 - IN IT IS A VOLUNTEER

08:43 - ORGANIZATION TENSE IN THIS

08:45 - FACILITY. BOTH WASHINGTON YOUTH

08:47 - BASEBALL AND TOURNAMENT'S

08:48 - INCORPORATED. IT IS A SOURCE OF

08:50 - PRIDE FOR EVERYONE IN GREATER

08:52 - WASHINGTON PENNSYLVANIA.

08:54 - NOT ONLY DOES THE LOCAL PONY

08:56 - LEAGUE PLAY HERE AND ONE OF THE

08:57 - BEST FACILITIES IN THE UNITED

08:59 - STATES FOR PONY LEAGUE BASEBALL

09:01 - PLAY. BUT WE'VE HAD THOUSANDS

09:03 - AND THOUSANDS OF KIDS THAT HAVE

09:04 - COME THROUGH HERE IN THE PLANE

09:05 - IN THE WORLD SERIES, INCLUDING

09:07 - MANY FORMER.

09:09 - AND CURRENT MAJOR LEAGUE

09:10 - BASEBALL PLAYERS. ALEX

09:12 - FERNANDEZ TOM BYRNE ASK E AND

09:15 - OF COURSE RIGHT NOW WITH THE

09:16 - MILWAUKEE BREWERS THE REIGNING

09:18 - IN NL MVP CHRISTIAN YELICH EACH

09:21 - FOR THE BEST TEENAGE BASEBALL

09:22 - IN THE WORLD NEW WAYS PONY

09:23 - FIELD IS THE PLACE TO BE EVERY

09:25 - AUGUST FOR THE ANNUAL PONY

09:26 - LEAGUE WORLD SERIES.

09:27 - WE BRING 8 TO 10 TEAMS FROM ALL

09:30 - OVER

09:30 - THE WORLD, THE COMPETE IN THE

09:32 - ANNUAL PONY LEAGUE WORLD SERIES

09:33 - CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES.

09:35 - AND EVERY AUGUST THE COMMUNITY

09:37 - TURNS OUT TO SUPPORT THE PLAY

09:39 - LEAGUE WORLD SERIES. AS WELL AS

09:41 - FANS FROM ACROSS UNITED STATES.

09:43 - AND MANY OTHER COUNTRIES.

09:46 - MANY LOCAL

09:47 - WASHINGTON COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS

09:49 - HELP SUPPORT THE PONY LEAGUE

09:50 - WORLD SERIES EVERY AUGUST.

09:53 - THE THE PONY LEAGUE WORLD

09:54 - SERIES FACILITIES LOCATED IN A

09:56 - PUBLIC PARK. BUT WE HAVE

09:57 - SUPPORT OF THE WASHINGTON

09:58 - COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,

10:00 - WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER

10:01 - OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON COUNTY,

10:03 - A TOURISM PROMOTION AGENCY AND

10:06 - THE WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY

10:07 - FOUNDATION ARE ALL SIGNIFICANT

10:08 - PARTNERS OF OURS

10:10 - AS WE BRING THE BEST 1314

10:11 - YEAR-OLDS TO WASHINGTON

10:12 - PENNSYLVANIA FROM ALL OVER THE

10:14 - WORLD EVERY AUGUST.

10:16 - WE HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED YOUR

10:18 - VISIT TODAY TO PONY BASEBALL

10:19 - AND SOFTBALL INTERNATIONAL

10:20 - HEADQUARTERS HERE IN WASHINGTON

10:22 - ALSO HISTORICALLY WAYS PONY

10:24 - FIELD, THE FIRST PUNT OF THE

10:25 - FIELD IN THE WORLD BUILT IN

10:27 - 1952 IN

10:29 - 1953. WE THAT YOU HAVE AN

10:32 - OPPORTUNITY TO COME VISIT US IN

10:34 - WASHINGTON. AT PONY

10:35 - HEADQUARTERS. PEEL N Y DOT ORG

10:38 - OR HERE LOU HIS PONY FIELD

10:40 - EVERY AUGUST FOR THE ANNUAL

10:42 - 1314 YEAR-OLD PONY LEAGUE WORLD

10:43 - SERIES PL WS DOT ORG. THANK

10:46 - YOU. AND COME SEE US IN

10:47 - WASHINGTON COUNTY.

10:53 - >>BROWN IS THE

10:54 - NEW GOLD. BROWNSVILLE HAS WON

10:57 - THE 2021.