Friday, April 3, the spectators at the next Gladiator ball game at Davidson Field are in for a treat! If you love prizes, hotdogs and baseball, you can get a wonderful snack for $1, along with a box of Crackerjacks. Why not?

Beginning at 6:00, the Athletic Booster Club will honor some of the businesses that have been supporting Italy Athletics. Along with that, you will see some fancy pitches from the mound. The businesses being honored will be Varner’s Fina, Italy Neotribune, Dr. Marvin Brown and David’s Supermarket. Make sure you make your purchases at the concession stand before 6:30, the price goes up to $2 after that. Also, the powers that be will be drawing for prizes from 6-6:30.

“They’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. it has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh…people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come.” a quote by Terence Mann to Ray Kinsella in the movie A Field of Dreams.