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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RACETRAC TO SPONSOR PERFECT GAME’S
SOUTHEAST SPRING WORLD SERIES
Sanford, Florida (Thursday, April 25, 2024) - Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, announced a partnership with RaceTrac that will see the convenience store leader, and Georgia’s second-largest privately held company, serve as the title sponsor for Perfect Game’s annual Southeast Spring World Series. The event will take place May 3-5 at the East Cobb Complex in Marietta, Ga., and surrounding facilities.
Family owned and operated for three generations, RaceTrac is an ideal sponsor for youth baseball as the company has an internal set of core values that include a culture of strong performance and living for fun every day. Last year, RaceTrac ranked 18th in Forbes’ list of America’s Largest Private Companies.
“As one of our neighbors in Georgia, RaceTrac shares in Perfect Game’s commitment to fostering youth sports development and providing opportunities for young athletes to showcase their skills,” said Perfect Game CEO Rob Ponger. “RaceTrac has partnered with baseball organizations for many years and Perfect Game is proud to associated with this great brand.”
“It takes teamwork both on and off the field to bring big events like this to life and it is our pleasure to partner with this year’s Southeast Spring World Series, right here in our home state of Georgia,” said Jamie Miller, executive director of marketing at RaceTrac. “We want to wish all the teams and their families safe travels during the games and hope to have the opportunity to serve them with our ‘Whatever Gets You Going’ style of convenience at our 126 store locations across Georgia.”
Over 200 teams from nine states are expected to participate in the Southeast Spring World Series with around 400 games being played that weekend. States represented are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Three former participants in the event were selected in last year’s MLB Draft: Tai Peete (Mariners), Antonio Anderson (Red Sox) and Isaiah Drake (Braves)
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Media contact:
Greg Casterioto / Gcasterioto@perfectgame.org / (267) 246-5709
About Perfect Game
Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players are performing with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 2,034 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 14,466 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2023 Draft, for example, 95 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.
About RaceTrac
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, family-owned RaceTrac has been serving guests since 1934 and now operates over 580 convenience store locations in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. While operating under its mission of making people’s lives simpler and more enjoyable, RaceTrac stores offer guests an affordable one-stop-shop featuring a wide selection of food and beverage favorites, including Swirl World frozen desserts, freshly ground, freshly brewed coffee and competitively priced fuel.