- Serving youth through sports. -Nick 'Buff' Maglio, the Founder of Brooklyn Kiwanis Baseball
- It doesn't take any talent to hustle! -Derek Jeter, the HOF Captain of the NY Yankees
- If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great! -A League of their Own
- There are 2 types of players: those who make it happen & those who watch it happen. -Tommy Lasorda
- They give you a round bat & they throw you a round ball & they tell you to hit it square.-W.Stargell
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THE BROOKLYN KIWANIS BASEBALL LEAGUE 
April 11th & 12th
Thank you to all who participated in the 2nd Annual
John DeStefano Memorial Tournament
Hosted by the baseball friends & family of John DeStefano:
THE BROOLYN KIWANIS BASEBALL LEAGUE , THE BROOKLYN PITBULLS & THE NEW UTRECHT HS BASEBALL PROGRAM
14u Tournament Champions: SFX Huskies
12u Tournament Champions: St. Columba
The 2026 BROOKLYN KIWANIS ⚾
SPRING & TOURNAMENT PARTICIPANTS:
In Memoriam to the friends of Brooklyn Baseball who are no longer with us...
NICK 'BUFF' MAGLIO
(passed April 2011)
-founder of our Brooklyn Kiwnais Baseball League, the 1st wood bat league in NYC
-beloved longtime baseball & basketball coach at New Utrecht HS, Brooklyn Friends & Ty Cobb
-won the battle to make baseball safer & use wood bats in all of NYC
-helped fund to install the lights at Bay 8th Street fields 1 & 1a
-Bay 8th 1a was renamed in his honor: Nick Maglio Field
-lived his motto which we continue today: "Serving Youth through Sports."
JOHN DeSTEFANO
(passed March 2024)
-beloved longtime coach & friend to the Brooklyn Kiwanis Baseball League
-founder of the current Brooklyn Pitbulls organization
LOU BARLETTA
(passed March 2025)
-local coach & most recent president of BBL : Brooklyn Baseball League
