With opening day for the Peninsula Oilers in the Alaska Baseball League less than two months away and the home opener scheduled for June 12th at Coral Seymour Memorial Park, the Peninsula Oilers continue to battle through financial obstacles and are looking at preparations for the upcoming 2019 summer baseball season.
The Peninsula Oilers are looking for summer host parents, field maintenance personnel, operators for the snack shack, and sponsors and advertisers for the baseball season.
Players begin arriving around June 1st. Park maintenance and preparing the ballpark for the season begins soon, depending on ground conditions.
Advertising, sponsorships and donations are ongoing and the Oilers primary funding through Old Town Bingo continues with bingo Monday through Friday at the Oilers Bingo Hall in Kenai.
Oilers call for host families…
Join the Oilers family and host a player for the summer! You provide the room and the Oilers will do the rest. Host families receive a family pass to the ballpark. The Oilers provide local transportation and meals when the team travels. A bedroom and access to a bathroom and washer and dryer are required. It’s a great way to spend quality family time together and share Alaska with a visiting athlete! The team begins arriving around June 1st and the regular season goes through July 28th.
Call the Oilers office at 283-7133
Oilers offer fundraising opportunity for operating concessions…
The Oilers are looking for a group or organization to operate the concessions through the snack shack at Oilers Park. The group will receive a percentage of the profits and will be responsible for operating the concessions for the three home stands for the Oilers. Call the Oilers office at 283-7133
Oilers park operations job opportunities…
The Oilers have job openings for the following positions: PA Announcer, Concessions Manager, Mascot, and On Field Announcer. For more information email [email protected] or call 283-7133.
Previous Oilers baseball story from April 1st….
Financial Uncertainty Threatens Oilers Baseball Present & Future
Peninsula Oilers baseball, a summer fixture celebrating 45 consecutive years of providing summer entertainment, baseball instruction, and financial support to community organizations and scholarships to graduating senior, is facing financial deficits and fiscal uncertainty that threatens the future of summer baseball on the Kenai.
The Oilers baseball club, in recent years, has functioned on a tight budget which now includes only one paid, part-time office manager; a seasonal baseball general manager, a seasonally-contracted coaching staff and a staff to run Old Town Bingo, the Oilers primary funding source.
The Peninsula Oilers due to a lack of gaming revenues from Old Town Bingo and a lack of monies produced through marketing, sales and donations are facing financial deficits which threaten the 2019 baseball season and are on the verge of withdrawing from the Alaska Baseball League season for 2020.
Peninsula Oilers Board of Directors President Mike Tice…
Tice: “We actually don’t know how we are going to pay our way through this season; pay the coaches and players way to come up (to Alaska). That ends up being well over $35,000 to fly them here and back. We don’t know how we’re going to do that at the moment.”
Completing the 2019 season is the first priority. What happens in 2020 will depend on the community and additional funding.
