The Osceola Baseball Softball Association: the town's own ball

BYLAWS ADOPTED JANUARY 2005, REVISED FEBRUARY 2013 · playing still

Osceola's standing team is six hundred children: the Osceola Baseball Softball Association Inc. — a 501(c)(7) organization, EIN 35-1883620 — provides baseball and softball across spring, summer, and fall for more than 600 children, ages 5 to 18 on its nonprofit profiles, 4 to 19 in its own bylaws, whose rules and regulations were adopted in January 2005 and revised in February 2013. The bylaws fix the association's ground and its people in its own words: its players are to be permanent residents of Osceola or Mishawaka — the published bylaws' text, as it circulates, says "the City of Osceola or Mishawaka," the association's own phrasing for a town and a city — and a player who moves out mid-year finishes the year "in Osceola Parks." The bylaws also carry the association's memory of the wider game: its purposes include raising funds "to provide assistance for further education for former Babe Ruth League and NSA League players," the national frames its own players once played under. The money is a town association's money: its 2023 federal filing (Form 990-EZ) reports revenue of $61,976. Its public faces are its own site (obsasports.org) and its Penn Park presence — the association plays, and is now billed, as Penn Park OBSA (pennparkobsa.com). In a town whose high-school ball is played in another city, the association is the whole answer to where Osceola plays: at home, on Grand Boulevard, from April through the fall.

Sources:

1. Osceola Baseball Softball Association Inc., Bylaws and Rules and Regulations (adopted January 2005; revised February 2013), the association's published bylaws — the purpose clause, the residency rule, and the Babe Ruth League / NSA League scholarship clause, quoted at the strength of the circulating text.
2. Nonprofit profiles of the association (EIN 35-1883620; 501(c)(7); more than 600 children, ages 5–18, spring, summer, and fall seasons; Form 990-EZ 2023 revenue $61,976; official website obsasports.org), read November 2026.
3. Penn Park OBSA (pennparkobsa.com and the association's social presence), November 2026.