Used Baseball Equipment?

The P&H Club of Chicago has a relationship with Roberto Clemente's children and baseball equipment donations. Contact Pete Caliendo (pcaliendo@pitchandhitclub.org) and he can get you all the information.

What about trying to send it down to one of the Islands?

You always hear about kids having to make gloves out of milk cartons down there.

Or sending it to an Inner-City Centre?

$l million from Sosa; Vlad Guerrero; Mariano Rivera; Aramis Ramirez, would provide enough gloves and equipment for the "islands".


Agree with JA...Take care of our own first.

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is a sister city of our town. We knew there was a LL team there as they had raised the money to make a trip here a couple of years ago to play in a tournament. Last Christmas we were fortunate to have vacationed there and my son packed a large duffel with several old gloves, shoes and socks, balls, etc.

When we went to the field to meet the coach and his players it was an awesome experience. Baseball truly transcends all cultural barriers. The look on my son's face when he and the coach handed the boys the equipment was priceless. They were so grateful and I know my son and I got at least as much out of the happening as they did.

Sports Scene, which is a local sporting goods store on Northwest Highway in Palatine selling primarily baseball equipment, has been collecting used equipment and sending it to the servicemen in Iraq. Bats,
balls, footballs etc...for recreational use. There was an article in the local paper a couple of weeks ago.

Here's a great place to donate...our own bamabomber has a ministry in Alabama that serves underprivilged youth!!Please contact him in the Alabama Forum...I'm sure he would really appreciate it!

Pitch In For Baseball
http://www.pitchinforbaseball.org/html/index.html

Pony baseball and softball also takes used equipment.

Thanks for all the great ideas, hopefully this information will help others as well. Lets get some of our used equipment to the kids that need it most!

"Play for Life" is an organization founded by one of our UofC baseball alums (Colin Decker, AB 02')and his wife. Play for Life supports baseball and other sports in the south chicago neighborhood of Englewood as well as other underpriviliged areas. They are in need of used baseball gear as well as donations. Their website is http://www.playforlife.org/about and you can find more about how to donate at http://www.playforlife.org/donations

Our baseball team spent an afternoon putting on a clinic for these kids this fall and it was a great time both for our team and for the kids (http://www.playforlife.org/blog). We pull a lot of kids from the suburbs, and its easy to forget how lucky we have it. You might get a few dollars at play it again sports for that old bat, but its worth a lot more to these kids.

Thank you,
Alex Gallan