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HERALD Honoring the veterans
Baldwin High goes to court
100 days of learning
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FEBRUARY 29 - MARCH 6, 2024
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Pitching in for Cooperstown Baldwin parents unite to send their kids to tournament and when you talk about it, people know about it,” Tephly said, whose son Joseph competes on the team. “It is nice to hear that The parents of Baldwin’s it is well known and that it is Long Island Royals 12U team are going to bat for their kids — special to go, and I hear that it’s in a spirited bid to send them to supposed to be phenomenal and Cooperstown to compete in a a memory for the children.” baseball tournament this sumCooperstown stands as the mer. sacred ground of In a display of baseball, and is sportsmanship revered as the away from the field, sport’s birthplace they joined forces and home to its halby orchestrating a lowed Hall of Fame. clothing drive so the But for these parBaldwin Little ents, the upstate League team could tourist destination compete in the Coorepresents more perstown Baseball than just history. Tournament ExpeThe tournament, rience, to be held which dates to 1996, from Aug. 18-24. has provided an Julia Tephly and experience for Alicia Lubrin, both young boys and from Baldwin, have girls who love basespearheaded the ball to participate KEViN KURZ clothing drive, callin a world-class 12U coach ing on community facility for teams, members to donate families and friends new and gently used clothing, across the country. jackets, hats and handbags for More than 200,000 players, Go Green Clothing Recycling, a coaches and umpires have Long Island-based company graced the baseball diamond in that pays for clothes that are Cooperstown. Major Leaguers collected. that have participated in the In addition to the drive, set tournament include Corey Seafor March 16 at 12 p.m. at the ger, Jacob deGrom, Mike Trout Baldwin district office, 960 and Bryce Harper, just to name Hastings St. in Baldwin, a a few. GoFundMe has been launched Founded in 1953, the Baldwin to raise the $10,000 the team Little League provides children needs for registration fees and ages 4 to 18 with an opportunity to cover the cost of the trip. to join a baseball or softball “A lot of the parents have team in the area. heard of it (the tournament),
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Photos courtesy Yaw Bonsu
Hofstra University senior and Baldwin native Yaw Bonsu who studies sports journalism, covered events in the week leading up to the Super Bowl for Hofstra’s radio station, WRHU-FM.
A Baldwin win at Super Bowl Yaw Bonsu looks back on covering media week By HERNESTo GAlDAMEZ hgaldamez@liherald.com
As he was gearing up to fly to Las Vegas to cover the Super Bowl for Hofstra University’s radio station, WRHU-FM, Yaw Bonsu, 21, of Baldwin, recalled, work needed to be done, and that meant controlling his emotions. “There’s a job to do,” he said last week as he looked back on the experience. “Leading up to it, I wasn’t as excited as other people because, you know, at the end of the day, there’s a job to do.” Bonsu, a 21-year-old senior journalism major with a concentration in sports media at Hofstra’s Lawrence Herbert School of
Communications, is active at WRHU, and directed the station in 2023. His interest in journalism goes back to his days at Baldwin High School, when he interned at the Herald as a high school senior in the spring of 2020. But it was his love for sports that attracted him to sports journalism, having sports journalist such as Ernie Johnson, Jen Lada and Stephen A. Smith to thank for, to name a few. Touching down in Las Vegas on Feb. 4, a week before the game, Bonsu and Michelle Rabinovich, a Hofstra junior who is WRHU’s lead sports editor, learned they would have a spot on radio row at the entrance to the Super Bowl Media Center at the Mandalay ContinUed on page 7
ven if they go other ways in their lives or make other decisions, whether it’s with baseball or not, they’ll always have this.
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