Rootstown teen gets a banana ball birthday surprise

Alexia Van Snick of Rootstown is headed for the world’s first Banana Ball Youth Tournament. Jeremy Brown/The Portager

Rootstown teen gets a banana ball birthday surprise

- Jeremy Brown

Rootstown’s Alexia Van Snick was first introduced to baseball when her uncle gave her a tee-ball set when she was 4. Her love for the game snowballed from there.

In elementary school, she joined Stow Youth Baseball and eventually moved on to play boys travel baseball and softball. Now, at 14, she’s on the junior leadership board for the National Girls Baseball Organization, Baseball For All, and is a youth coach for the Cleveland Guardians Youth Baseball Summer Camps.

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