The location is home to two baseball diamonds across the street from each other, and was renamed after Southern California's first all-Black youth baseball team to reach a Little League World Series, the North Valley Broncos.
“It was this team that not only as a result of the fortitude and insight of their parents to create an environment that allowed them to play ball,” Rodriguez said, “but this was the team that took it all the way to the World Series.”Lon Grandison of the Pacoima Historical Society holds photos of the 1965 Broncos baseball team.
Rickie Chapron, a left fielder for the '65 Broncos who still frequents the baseball fields, described the renaming of the intersection as a dream come true. “We didn't quit, we weren't able to play over there [and] now I'm able to coach 57 years later,” he said. Chapron now coaches the current generation of Little Leaguers where he played baseball as a kid.“It's nice to honor history and to remember where we came from,” said Mika Lett, who attended the event. She made it a point to show up because Chapron coaches her 11-year-old son on these fields.
“And to think that at one point in history, he wouldn't have been allowed to play here,” said Lett, who is Black, referencing segregation. It’s inspiring, she said, to know that the kids’ fathers rolled up their sleeves and built a field when faced with that racism.
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