Torrance to Develop Little League Fields

Torrance Little Leaguers will be playing at a new baseball diamond when they pick up their bats and balls next year.

The City Council plans to spend $100,000 from the Department of Parks and Recreation’s open space fund to turn two vacant lots into baseball fields so that the Central Torrance Little League and South Bay Girls Softball League will have a place to play ball.

The leagues lost their old field June 1 when the property owner, Southern California Edison, sold the land to an industrial developer.

Starting next season, the Central Little League will play on a new baseball field on Plaza del Amo west of Western Avenue. The vacant lot was a Little League site in the 1960s but has fallen into disrepair. The girls softball league will use a field at the Torrance Unified School District’s Sam Levy Curriculum Center, Councilman Dan Walker said.

“This is a very worthwhile use of taxpayer funds,” Walker said. “We’re helping kids and that is a big priority in this community.”