Community Connections

The Battery Launched its 25th Annual Baseball Academy in 2010. Read more...
Battery Owners Receive Gates Chili Chamber Award: Business in the Spotlight Award 2010. Read more...
Battery co-owners Grace and Fred Tillinghast are members of the Rochester Hispanic Business Association. Mrs. T is currently chair of the organization.

The Battery is a member of the Gates Chili Chamber of Commerce.

The Battery sponsors the "Do the Right Thing" Program of the Rochester Police Department, and co-owner Grace Tillinghast is a member of their Board of Directors. The program recognizes area students for doing the right thing. Several Battery students have been recognized through the years.
Read about Mikah McDonnell's award.
Read about Daniel Erne's award.
Read about Dave Mazzulo's award.

The Battery sponsors the Lighting Elite, a group of elite softball players who train at the facility and participate in leagues and tournaments in the entire US.
The Battery also sponsors the Rochester Lady Lions travel softball team and the Rochester Thunder travel softball team.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, The Battery and other members of the Rochester Hispanic Business Association, have sponsored, in partnership with the Democrat and Chronicle, the Hispanic American History supplement

The Battery has sponsored a team since 1988 in the Rochester ABC League and the NYS League. Most of the members of the team are Battery graduates who are playing baseball in college.

The Battery co-owners founded in 1987 the Westside Travel League, the first of its kind in our community, to provide outstanding players -ages 8-15- in the Greater Rochester area an opportunity for better competition. Battery co-owners managed the travel league until 1997. During that decade, the travel league grew by leaps and bounds.

In Memoriam

John Tillinghast - 'Coach T'
1942 - 2012

Coach T's strong and steady presence has always guided the Battery family and thousands of young people. We are sustained by the strength and peace of knowing he is now in God's loving hands. You are forever in our hearts and by our side.

Rest in peace Coach. 9/13/12.