The Virginia Mustangs and Portstewart Eagles 

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Portstewart, Northern Ireland and Stafford, Virginia, USA

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"The Sister Cities program is an important resource to the negotiations of governments in letting the people themselves give expression of their common desire for friendship, good will and cooperation for a better world for all."

- Dwight David Eisenhower

For many of the same reasons that President 'Ike' Eisenhower endorsed the Sister Cities program in the 1950's, the Virginia Mustangs of Stafford, Virginia, USA; and the Portstewart Eagles of Portstewart, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, have formed a Sister Team relationship.

The goals of the Mustangs' and Eagles' Sister Team program are summarized as follows: 

• Create opportunities for our baseball players in Northern Ireland and Virginia to learn and experience other cultures through long-term relationships.
• Create an atmosphere that builds on our common passion for baseball to stimulate an exchange of baseball news, tips, strategies and just plain baseball talk between players, coaches and parents from both sides of the 'Pond'.
• Enable the Eagles' to benefit from a relationship with a team based in a country where baseball is the national pastime and where our youth have played the game for years - often since the toddler stage.
• Enable the Mustangs' to benefit from a relationship with a team based in a country where baseball is an oddity, but whose members have baseball 'heart' and the 'right stuff' to succeed against all odds.
• Foster a relationship that could one day lead to team and family visits for games, scrimmages, or just plain socializing; both in Virginia and Northern Ireland.

The Virginia Mustangs are very excited about the Sister Team relationship with the Portstewart Eagles and are proud to be associated with an organization that is fully dedicated to a sport that plays 'second-fiddle' in a nation where soccer is king.  Baseball fields, instruction, and sporting goods stores that sell baseball equipment are a rarity.  There are no AAU or USSSA leagues that build off little league baseball.  No travel teams, no real tournaments.  The vast majority of the players have never seen a minor, major, or any other league (for that matter) game.  Yet the Eagles' persist, coach Gene Powers and two Eagles' players were selected to represent the All-Ireland team in the European Regional Playoffs of the Little League World Series in Kutno, Poland.  While they did not get past that round, they returned to Northern Ireland more determined than ever to take Irish baseball to the 'next level'.

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                       Portstewart           Fredericksburg               Fredericksburg                  Stafford

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