Home Run for the Community: Local Roofing Company Repairs Little League Fields for Free

By Cass Jacoby, RCS Reporter.  

Aboveboard labor and material donations deliver a grand slam, creating a space for kids to be kids. 

After a year of cancellations in 2020, Little League baseball is returning  to Michigan in 2021. A local company recognized that the St. Charles ballpark needed some TLC to prepare for the summer. The Little League cancellations had only lasted a year, but St. Charles park hasn’t had a little league in years, the ballpark had a number of needed repairs.  

“There was a time when I remember this park from front to back full of cars, kids playing little league, guys playing softball,” resident Sam Mayer told WNEM. “That's gone away in the last few years and we want to bring that back.” 

Aboveboard, a mid-Michigan roofing and construction company, stepped up to bat, fixing the dugout roofs at no cost-- fully donating the materials and labor. “We're going to be replacing all the shingles on the dugouts. They were in bad need. They were in rough shape,” Steve Menzel from Aboveboard said. “We think it’s important that we get back to some normal. Being with the COVID, the kids are anxious to get back out and we're here to help.”  

The company was asked to bid on the work, but instead they went beyond the call of duty for their community and offered the only park in town the repairs without cost. Aboveboard has also repaired all 10 dugouts on the league's five baseball fields for the Saginaw Township Little League field, donating an estimated $8,000 in parts and labor. 

The company plans on sponsoring a little league team this upcoming season once repairs are done. 

“We do a job like this for the kids, our community. It's important, kids need to be kids,” said Steve. 

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