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Sorensco to rename field for Jim Finke; alumni game set for July 17 in East Greenbush
The tribute night lands Friday, July 17 at Sorensco Field. Check‑in opens at 5:30 pm, the dedication ceremony is set for 6:00 pm, and first pitch of the alumni game follows at 6:30 pm, with an after‑party at Junior’s Bar and Grill in East Greenbush [1].The field will be renamed to honor Jim Finke (1940–2024), whose roughly five decades of service to the game in southern Rensselaer County span coaching in the East Greenbush Babe Ruth League beginning in 1973 and district, state, and regional leadership roles through 2022 [1]. Alumni who graduated high school in 2022 or earlier are eligible to register for the game [1].Sorensco, branded locally as the Falcons, carries forward the area’s Babe Ruth tradition—tracing its lineage back more than 70 years—and operates as a 501(c)(3) based in East Greenbush (63 Gilligan Rd.) [2]. The program’s evolution from the East Greenbush–Schodack Businessmen’s League to East Greenbush Babe Ruth and now Sorensco Baseball underscores the same mission: a community home for big‑field youth baseball in the town and surrounding neighborhoods [1][2].