Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region announced today that a $100,000 grant from its Fox Cities Stadium Charitable Fund will make it possible for a new Miracle League field to open this spring at Memorial Park.Click through on the link up top to see which figure in Timber Rattlers history will have the field named after him.
The Miracle League is an organized baseball league for youths with physical and/or cognitive disabilities between the ages of 4 and 19 who play non-competitive, organized ball on a fully accessible, rubberized field.
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And because of a $100,000 grant from the Fox Cities Stadium Charitable Fund within the Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region, the first phase — the new field — will be ready for the Miracle League’s teams to play ball on June 5.
Stan Baehman, spokesman for the stadium fund group, said it wanted to give the field project a big boost.
“We felt our gift could move the project forward and help it to become a reality,” Baehman said in a release today.
Congratulations to The Miracle League of the Fox Valley. We will see you at your Opening Day on June 5, 2010!
1 comment:
Was reading up on the whole organization/program. Was unaware of it, pretty cool.
Congrats to the club for it's donation!
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