MILLERTON — Little League players will celebrate the start of the 2026 season on Sunday, April 12, at Eddie Collins Memorial Park, leading off with a parade down Main Street.
The event will kick off at the Millerton Firehouse on Century Boulevard at 11:15 a.m., when players and coaches will make a procession to the park, walking down Main Street to the ball field pavilion.
Tori Gilleo will sing the national anthem. Planned activities include a blow-up bounce house and food and ice cream trucks. Festivities are planned to run until 2:30 p.m.
“We have a total of six teams. One tee-ball, three baseball and two softball,” said Scott Russo, president of the league’s board, which has been organizing this year’s season over the winter months.
This year, the League has signed up 80 players. As in past years, games will be played at Eddie Collins Memorial Park and in Amenia at Beekman Park. Lights newly installed at Eddie Collins field will enable a game “under the lights” this year.
The field is named after Eddie Collins, a Millerton native and professional baseball player and later major league executive who was a second baseman in the early 20th century for the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox.
Little League game schedules for this spring are not yet arranged.
In recent years, a group of parents led an ambitious and successful effort to affiliate the Webutuck Little League with Little League Baseball and Softball in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which organizes local leagues throughout the U.S. and across the world.
