Henry Lake

Wally Langfellow joins the Lake Show with Fernando Attanon to talk about the Wood Bat Little League Tournament happening this weekend in Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park   The 2024 Baseball in Benin Little League Wood Bat Tournament gets underway on Thursday (Aug 1) and runs through Sunday (Aug 4) in Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park.   41 Little League teams from around the Twin Cities metro area will play in this year’s tournament.  Teams competing exclusively use wood bats. The tournament is completely run by volunteers, and will again benefit the Baseball in Benin (BIB) project which has been going on since 2010.   Fernando Attanon, the President of the Baseball and Softball Federation in Benin will be on hand for this weekend’s tournament  along with 22-year old Beninese player Sadock Gnarigo, who grew up in the BIB program and is currently playing college baseball at Century College in White Bear Lake where he will be a sophomore this fall.  Gnarigo is the first-ever baseball player from Benin to play the ga