Rooney’s Snack Shack

Located at Cassidy field in Medway, not to be confused with Cassidy Lane which is also in Medway on the other side of town. I will never understand why they did that.
Ah, Rooney’s. What is there to say? The best burgers, dogs, popcorn and slush in town at very reasonable prices. They also sell pizza from a local pizza shop which is a nice change if you’re all burgered out. The pizza is always hot and fresh, too. This year they started making a very respectable grilled cheese as well. Nothing enticing you yet? Consider this: probably three nights out of seven, my husband eats one of their soft pretzels for dinner. They’re awesome.
The value is great. You can feed three kids for like twelve bucks. I have done it, probably far too many times than is good for anyone, but it beats negotiating bites of veggies at home with your youngest child while simultaneously screaming at your oldest to get all their baseball stuff together and into a bag because they’re already 10 minutes late for warmups. We’ve all been there, am I right? And as for your husband, he can buy his own soft pretzel, because clearly you have enough to worry about.
You can get 20 pieces of the most delicious gum in the world for a dollar. And you will definitely need all twenty pieces in a single day or night because a piece loses its flavor in about .023 seconds. If you’re an adult, you spit the old one out and pop another. If you’re a kid, you just jam two more into your craw to pep up the existing piece. If you think I’m kidding, take a look at some of the ballplayers in the complex. At any given moment, the average kid has 8 – 10 pieces shoved in their mouths. Isn’t that part of the fun, though?
If early-​onset TMJ isn’t your thing, but you still want something sweet, they have lots of delicious candy and soda too.
The people who work there are all great. Mostly a volunteer staff of parents and surprisingly unsurly teens.
Rooney’s: come for the food, stay for the opportunity to get hit by a foul ball from a game you’re not even watching.