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By Myrna Trauntvein
TN Correspondent

Last winter, Alan Sperry started a project to document the history of Nephi City baseball and its connections to the Park/Sperry family legacy.

Justin Seely, mayor, said that Sperry had realized that it had been 150 years since the first baseball game was played in Nephi and thought it needed to be celebrated.

Sperry went to work to honor that occasion with a sign that would be placed at the Nephi City Pioneer Park to commemorate the occasion.

“I contacted Governor Spencer Cox to issue a proclamation which he did,” said Seely.

Seely showed the proclamation and said his plans were to have it framed and then to hang it in some yet-to-be determined public space.

“It was great to gather at 10:30 a.m. on January 1, for the game kickoff,” said Seely. “Shari Cowan, council member, brought a bat made by her husband, a fellow classmate of the Class of 1992, which added a nice touch.”

“Coach Park also shared impressive updates about our Juab baseball players currently competing at the next level,” he said.

Cooper Ford is at the College of Southern Idaho, Kanyon Mattenson is at Colorado Northwestern, Garrett Hofer at Salem University (WV) and Tayden Steele at Doane (NE).

“Although Wyatt and Cale have decided to retire this year after their time at Eastern Utah, their contributions are also valued,” he said.

Seely said that Sperry had a webpage where further information about the history of baseball in Nephi could be found.

“It is really interesting,” he said.