MEET GREGORY CORNRAD BURROWS SR

  • GREG BURROWS BORN NOVEMBER 5th 1959
  • MARRIED TO ELIZABETH (HILTON) BURROWS
  • THE SON OF HURBET BURROWS (DECEASES) & DORIS BURROWS
  • HE HAS TWO SONS GREG JR, & ADAM BURROWS
  • GREG IS THE FOUNDING MEMBERS OF FREEDOM FARM BASEBALL
  • THE LEAGUE THAT INTRODUCE COACH PITCH BASEBALL TO THE BAHAMAS
  • HE WAS ALSO THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NEWLY FORMED BAHAMAS BASEBALL FEDERATION AND WAS PRESIDENT OF THE NASSAU BASEBALL LEAGUE,

 

WHY BASEBALL ? WHY FREEDOM FARM ?

IT IS HARD TO START A BASEBALL TEAM MUCH LESS A BASEBALL LEAGUE WHAT MADE YOU START A BASEBALL LEAGUE? I WAS ALWAYS INVOLVE IN YOUTH PROGRAMS THROUGH POODOLEO STREET ORGANIZING LITTLE SPORTING GAMES; I CHOOSE BASEBALL BECAUSE OUT SIDE OF FOOTBALL & SOCCER IN TEAM SPORTS BASEBALL HAD THE MOST INVOLVEMENT OF KIDS AT ONE TIME ON THE FEILD OF PLAY. AND BECAUSE OF THE RICH HISTORY OF THE GAME OF BASEBALL IN THE BAHAMAS; I WAS ALSO HOPING FOR OPPOTURNITY FOR KIDS TO GET AN EDUCATION AND A CHANCE TO PLAY PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LIKE SO MANY OTHER BAHAMIANS DID. AND I MIGHT ADD WHEN YOU STARTED YOUR BASEBALL LEAGUE THERE WAS ONLY ONE OTHER LEAGUE PLAYING BASEBALL IN NASSAU AT THAT TIME.

WHY FREEDOM FARM? WELL THE FIRST VENUE OF PLAY WAS ON A FARM CALLED FREEDOM FARM AND THEIR WAS SHEEPS & GOATS HORSES & COWS ALONG WITH CHICKENS & DUCKS YOU GET THE PICTURE FARM ANIMALS.AND ON THE FARM IS WHERE YOU GROW THINGS SO WE GROW YOUNG BOYS INTO MEN AND YOUND GIRLS INTO LADIES; ISN'T IT A GOOD PLACE TO START YOUNG KIDS IN THE GAME OF BASEBALL; I MEAN IN THE MAJOR LEAGUES OF BASEBALL THAT WHERE THEY PUT MOST OF THEIR YOUNG BASEBALL PLAYERS IN THEIR FARM SYSTEM CALLED THE MINOR LEAGUES OF BASEBALL TO GROW AND SO STARTING OUT ON A FARM AND MAINTAINING THE NAME IS A BLESSING AND SOMETHING BASEBALL PLAYERS AND FANS CAN IDENTIFY WITH. BUT WE HAVE OUT GROWN FREEDOM FARM AND THE LEAGUE HAS NOW MOVED TO YAMACRAW AND IS STILL GROWING WE NEED MORE SPACE FOR OUR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT BUT NAME REMIANS THE SAME.

FREEDOM BASEBALL LEAGUE

FROM THE FARM TO PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL

ANTOAN RICHARDSON . . GERON SANDS . . . .GREG BURROWS JR . . .ALBERT CARTWIRGHT JR

. THE GIANTS . . . . . ROADRUNNERS . . RIVERHAWKS . . . , ,. . THE ASTROS

DOWN ON THE FARM

THE CROPS ARE GROWING DOWN ON THE FARM; MORE AND MORE KIDS ARE HEADING OF TO HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TO PLAY BASEBALL AND THE PROGRAM IS GROWING WE NOW HAVE OVER 300 KIDS AT THE FARM.WE HAVE EXPANDED OUR SCHEDUL TO 24 GAMES FOR THE BIGGER BOYS AND UP TO 18 GAMES FOR 12 AND UNDER TO COACH PITCH; WE HAVE FIVE DIVISION THAT PLAYS AT FREEDOM FARM THEY ARE T-BALL DIVISION, 9 TO 10 DIVISION, 12 & UNDER DIVISION, 13 TO 15 DIVISION, AND 16 AND OVER DIVISION. FREEDOM FARM IS RUN BY A BOARD OF DIRECTORS. A LOTS OF PREPARATION GOES INTO A FREEDOM FARM SEASON WITH TRAINING STARTING AS EARLY AS THE LAST WEEK IN AUGUST FOR THE START OF THE SEASON IN JANUARY AND ENDS IN MAY.

 

TO THE FUTURE THIS IS BASEBALL BAHAMAS