The Greeneville Astros are offering opportunities to work and spend the summer at the ballpark.

Positions currently available include bat boys, hawkers/vendors, program sellers, ticket sellers, ticket takers, ushers, Kidz Zone attendants and customer service.

Applications are available for individuals 16 years of age or older, or for bat boys 14 years of age or older.

Even if someone has worked in the past, all individuals must apply in person at Pioneer Park. The office is open Monday-Friday from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

The 2008 Season starts at Pioneer Park on June 20 as the Astros take on the Danville Braves at 7 p.m. Season tickets, half season tickets and ticket books are now available at the Astros' office located at the stadium.

Since the Greeneville Astros joined the Appalachian League in 2004, they have found no adversary more trying than the Johnson City Cardinals. Over the past four years the names and faces may have changed, but the games have always been competitive and intense.

The Astros and Cardinals are recognize that rivalry with the "11-E Series" presented by Laughlin Memorial Hospital and Johnson City Medical Center.

The rivalry will be decided over a best of nine series between the two teams during the 2008 season, for the coveted 11-E Trophy.

"The rivalry with Johnson City has always been an extremely competitive and well played one," said Astros General Manager David Lane. "To be able to add something more to the equation, to give both teams something more to play for will only make the rivalry more exciting,"

The Astros and Cardinals will meet for the first three games of the series in Greeneville on June 23-25. The Astros then head to Johnson City August 8-10, with the final three games to be held in Greeneville on August 11-13.

The 11-E Series is presented by sister hospitals, Laughlin Memorial Hospital of Greeneville and Johnson City Medical Center of Johnson City.

"To have two great sponsors backing this series and adding a friendly competition between two partners in providing elite health care in East Tennessee is important to us," said Cardinals General Manager Chuck Arnold. "Both of the hospitals and ball clubs work together on a regular basis and we saw it as a great opportunity to recognize that relationship and tie together two outstanding communities in what has traditionally been an exciting rivalry."