Green Ridge Little League

The Green Ridge Little League (the “League”) was established in 1951 to provide the children residing in the Green Ridge section of Scranton, PA with programs of baseball instruction and opportunities for organized baseball competition.

It has done so on a continuous basis since then, operating at its initial location off of Olyphant Avenue and Highnett Place. Annually, the league serves about 200 boys and girls, ages 4 through 16, in a variety of baseball programs. The League emphasizes these values: sportsmanship, honesty, loyalty, courage, and respect for authority.

On January 11, 1954, the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas accepted the League’s Articles of Incorporation and ordered its existence as the Green Ridge Little League Baseball Club of Scranton, Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation. Sixteen residents of the Green Ridge neighborhood were responsible for the League’s official incorporation. Among them were Thomas F. Kennedy and Chester C. Vola, for whom the Olyphant Avenue playing fields are named. Also among these organizers was Joseph R. Biden, father to a League player who is currently the 46th President of the United States of America. President Biden was inducted into the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum Hall of Excellence in 2009. He visited the field in 2012, when he was Vice President, meeting with several players and volunteers.