A volunteer-run baseball club at McLeod Park, 200 McLeod Road, in Te Atatū South, West Auckland. The club has been playing at McLeod Park since 1997, and says it has the only 90-foot clay diamond in the combined Henderson-Massey, Waitākere Ranges and Whau local board areas. It is a foundation member of the Auckland Baseball Association, and the Auckland Tuatara played their first 2018/19 Australian Baseball League season at the park. Teams run from T-Ball for ages 4 to 7, through junior grades to adult social competition. Volunteers are sought as coaches, scorers, managers and umpires, and the club offers try-outs before the season.
We hear McLeod Park is being renovated by Auckland Council this summer, with the fields to be re-grassed. During the work, junior teams will play at Brains Park in Kelston and Harold Moody Reserve in Glen Eden, and adult grades will play away. Customers say the ground is nice, and that the club runs summer training programmes for children of all ages. The club has 103 registered players and 80 family households, and says its members come from across West Auckland. Our pick in Te Atatū South for a first step into baseball.