Still in need of summer host families

Host a General for a summer, add a new family member for life. That’s the deal when it comes to our host families.

Host families provide a bed, access to a bathroom, laundry room and kitchen, and in return they get a son to follow through his baseball career and life.

Long-time Waynesboro Generals family member Mary McDermott follows her boys into the business world and beyond. McDermott has been hosting players for 10 years now, and like the TV ad promoting adoption that pokes fun to get across the message that you don’t have to be perfect to be a perfect parent, well …

“My daughter, Lizzie, asked me how we could host a baseball player when we don’t know the first thing about baseball,” McDermott told a group at a recent Generals event.

Players will be arriving in Waynesboro beginning on May 29. Opening Day is Friday, June 3, and the Generals will be in action throughout June and July and hopefully into the playoffs in early August.

Host families get free admission to all 22 Generals home games as a small token of thanks for their contribution to the team.

They also, again, get a new member of the family.

If you would like to adopt a General please contact the Housing Coordinator, Beth Tipton, at elizabethcartertipton@gmail.com.