RADNOR, Ohio (WCMH) — Leaders and parents with a local youth baseball league are concerned about the future of their fields as the property the fields sit on might be changing hands.  

“It’s been a wave of emotion,” Radnor Youth Athletic Association (RYAA) secretary Carrie Hacker said. “You don’t know whether your kid is going to get to play baseball, whether the park stays. You don’t know whether the green space stays, you don’t know what Buckeye Valley’s plans are.” 

Even on a chilly winter day with baseball season still several weeks away, the fields RYAA uses are on many peoples’ minds.  

“It means a lot to me that my son is able to play on the same field I played on,” RYAA president John Turner said. 

League leaders and parents of kids who play Radnor baseball said they’re worried about the fields. The property they are on is owned by the township. The township had bought the land from Buckeye Valley Local Schools for $1 and now a similar sale back to the school district is being considered. 

“There’s unknowns and that’s the thing and that’s the thing that makes everyone so uneasy is just it’s that unknown and the what ifs of what happens if this goes through,” parent and RYAA board member Joe Keller said.  

Before November’s levy failed, Buckeye Valley Local Schools was thinking about moving its bus garage to the property where the baseball fields are since the new high school would have taken the spot of the current bus garage, according to Dr. Jeremy Froehlich, assistant superintendent. 

“We’d still be interested in that property for some future use but right now, we don’t have that necessity to relocate our bus garage but that was the initial plan,” he said. 

If the district does end up getting the property, Froehlich said development plans would not include getting rid of the fields. 

“We’d love to have that property, but we have no intentions of shutting the baseball field down, RYAA is a great partner with us and we don’t want to limit our kids’ opportunities, those are out students,” he said. “We’d still like to have that flexibility of a centralized piece of property in our district as we continue to face growth, but our goal is to leave the baseball fields even if we were to put a building there, we want a reason to bring the community out to those, that property.”