COLLEGE FLAIR FOR UNIFORMS SIMI YOUTH BASEBALL TO CUT COSTS WITH NEW SPRING WEAR.Byline: Daily News SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. -- Hundreds of players in the Simi SIMI Sea Ice Mechanics Initiative SIMI Search for Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet SIMI Students Islamic Movement in India SIMI Society of Irish Motor Industry SIMI Smallholder Irrigation Markets Initiative Youth Baseball organization put on new uniforms Saturday for spring opening-day games. Instead of having names of major league baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. teams, the new uniforms use college teams. Mike Fine, the president of Simi Youth Baseball, said the change will cut uniform costs and encourage the young baseball players to start thinking about college. "It will save money, but if we get these kids to start thinking about college, that's our No. 1 goal," Fine said. "It's a win-win," said Eric Rose, who has two sons in the Simi Youth Baseball PONY group. "The league will save over 30 percent in uniform costs and now our ballplayers will be looking up to college players as role models." The fields, at 497 Irvine Road, are home to about 600 PONY baseball players. The group's Web site is http://simiyouth.com. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: There's no animosity between Scott Stevens, left, wearing a USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. jersey, while his buddies Tyler Bosson, middle, and Cole Rutherford wear the crosstown rival UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX jersey. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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