The Marion Hungry Mothers are a collegiate wood-bat baseball team that begin play with the 2025 season!
Making their home at a former minor league baseball facility (Hurricane Stadium in Marion, Virginia) the team will play a schedule of approximately 40 games during the summer and compete with the Carolina Disco Turkeys and Uwharrie Wampus Cats of neighboring North Carolina and others in a postseason championship. Our home opener will take place on Memorial Day!
Other opponents for the Hungry Mothers in their inaugural season will include top area and regional teams, including the Mooresville Spinners, the Queen City Corndogs, the Catawba Valley Stars, and others. They'll also play away exhibitions at the Boone Bigfoots.
What are HUNGRY MOTHERS games like?
We offer America's pastime, concessions, and affordable, family-friendly entertainment much like going to a Salem Red Sox or Bristol Pirates (RIP) game.
At the friendly confines of Hurricane Stadium, we'll have seating for thousands with a new set of bleachers behind home plate, the football grandstand in right field and limited table seating on the third base side. Fans can also bring along lawn chairs from home for our lawn areas. We'll have the concession stand open at all of our home games. No alcoholic beverages will be sold at games this season due to the stadium being on a school campus.
What is a HUNGRY MOTHER?
If you’re from Marion, you already know the Hungry Mother story.
The name is famously lent to Hungry Mother State Park, a popular destination in Smyth County. It derives from a story of a pioneer woman and her child, who according to legend, were both captured by a Native American tribe and taken to their mountain camp. The woman, Molly Marley, and her child escaped. The mother didn't make it back for help, but the child did and the only words they could say was "Hungry Mother."
We chose to bring a Hungry Mother alive as a ferocious mother bear having come back suddenly from a long hibernation, just like summer baseball has now returned to this area in the shape of our new team.
