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Friends of Babe Ruth
The Elks Club
The Elks Club 339 East Fourth Street Jamestown, NY

The BPOE - #263 ELKS Club in Jamestown has hosted the Managers and Coaches Breakfast for all thirteen Jamestown Babe Ruth World Series. This fraternal organization has been an excellent friend to the Jamestown Babe
Ruth World Series Committee. The breakfast is always held on the Friday morning following arrival day. The time for the breakfast is 8:00 a.m. At this time, the National Task Force has an opportunity to meet and reinforce tournament logistics with all team managers and coaches, umpires and the local Stadium Division including the Press Box Crew. After the breakfast a caravan is formed to mobilize eastward on Second Street to Diethrick Park. At this time the ground rules are discussed, along with responsibilities and protocol of managers and coaches throughout the World Series. The local committee continues to be appreciative of the ongoing efforts of our ELKS Club neighbors.
The Eastside Fellowship Club
Upon Jamestown announcing that it would host their first World Series in 1980, a local club and neighbor to Diethrick Park (where all ball games are played) volunteered to feed the participating World Series teams upon their arrival in Jamestown. The Eastside Fellowship Club has continued this ‘tradition’ for all of our 13 World Series.  This group of individuals raise all of the money themselves that is needed to feed all players, Hostesses and Host Families in a picnic style meal and to ‘Welcome’ them to Jamestown no matter what time the teams arrive.  The Eastside members have started serving as early as 10:00 a.m. and as late as 3:00 a.m.   The meal usually consists of hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, potato salad, chips,
soft drinks and ice cream.  Many thanks to our World Series friends as they continue to provide this meal ‘out of the goodness of their hearts’.
 

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