For decades, the league has served as a key outlet for young athletes — drawing strong community support in both attendance and funding.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Oso Pony League is pushing back after learning its lease at the Paul Jones facility is being terminated by the City of Corpus Christi.

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For decades, the league has served as a key outlet for young athletes — drawing strong community support in both attendance and funding.

Todd Hunter Jr., who is representing the Oso Pony Baseball League, says the group has been an anchor in the lives of many young athletes. Now, after the city decided to end the league’s lease at Paul Jones, he says members are unsure what comes next — especially since many have invested their own money into the field.

“This is turf and it was put in by this organization with their funds, so that the kids have a better experience,” he said.

Hunter says many organizations depend on the league to help smoothly run their events, and without the league’s involvement, they worry the quality could suffer.

“We’re not going to be here to run tournaments, we’re not going to be here to chalk the lines. We’re not going to be here to run concessions,” he said.

Under the new lease, the city would take full responsibility for maintenance. And while officials did provide the league with a 30-day notice, Sergio Gonzalez, assistant director for Corpus Christi Parks and Recreation, says the city’s reasoning for ending the agreement is to make the field more available for equal use.

“For the past 15-20 years all our fields have been under a long-term lease agreement with certain organizations. Under the city’s purview now the availability is there now for anybody to use our fields as long as it’s available online,” he said.

Because of the termination, the league will have to pack up all its equipment from the field’s storage shed. Gonzalez says the city is prepared to take over operations.

“Some facilities we need to fix up and all that and get it up to par. It’s going to take time but now we have a dedicated team,” he said.

But Hunter says there are still too many unanswered questions.

“We’ve asked the city of they’d just renew the lease, renegotiate the lease, or really just give us an explanation of what’s going to happen with these fields that Oso people an organizations have put their heart and souls into,” he said.