Macon Peaches play this weekend

Macon Peaches

play this weekend

As part of

an effort to end childhood hunger in Macon and Middle Georgia, the Macon

Peaches have announced that fans who attend the team's exhibition games

against the Georgia Cherokees, this Friday through Sunday will be admitted

free of charge if they bring a non-perishable canned food item.

Fans who don't

bring a canned item will be charged $1 for admission, with all cash proceeds

donated to a local charity.

The Peaches

will play the Georgia Cherokees, part of the Men's Adult Baseball League

and Men's Senior Baseball League of Atlanta, tonight at 7:05 p.m.; a doubleheader

tomorrow beginning at 4 p.m.; and Sunday at 1:05 p.m. All games will be

played at Luther Williams Field in Macon.

The Peaches

are part of the independent Southeastern Professional Baseball League,

a professional minor league baseball organization with teams in Baton

Rouge, LA; Houma, LA; Montgomery, AL; Pensacola, FL; and Selma, AL. This

year is the second season for the league, which will play a 72-game schedule.

The Peaches are the league's newest entry, and are playing in historic

Luther Williams Field in Macon, one of the nation's oldest ballparks and

most recently the home of the Atlanta Braves Class A farm team.

The Georgia

Cherokees have a rich tradition of playing semi-professional baseball

in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Most recently, the Cherokees won the

2000 and 2002 Fall League Championships, finished as runner-up in the

2001 Fall Classic in Tampa and 2002 Georgia Games (silver medal), and

have participated in the Disney Classic in Orlando (January 2001), Las

Vegas Shoot-Out (March 2002, March 2003), and the Billy Townsend Memorial

Day Tournament in Atlanta (May 2002) and again in the 2002 Fall Classic.

This is the

second time the Georgia Cherokees have played a professional minor league

in an exhibition game. In 2001, they played the Albany Alligators of the

now-defunct All American Association.

For more information

on the Peaches or these games, contact Tim Darnell in Atlanta, GA, at

404/325-4587 or Peaches Manager Al Sontag at 478/742-1717, or visit www.maconpeachesbaseball.com.

For more information on the Georgia Cherokees, contact Manager Rick Stockfield

at 678/427-7226 or [email protected].

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