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Chicago High School Baseball Alumni Hall of Fame and Game to Launched City Wide Education Outreach Program to Promote Healthy Lifestyle.
Chicago– The Chicago High School Baseball Alumni Hall of Fame and Game.
Today announced the launch of a City Wide education and outreach program to promote healthy and active lifestyles for all individuals in Chicago Public Schools , while educating students about the dangers Gangs, Guns and Drugs.
The new education program will commence this summer through the Alumni’s outreach programs, primarily geared toward all middle and high school students, including athletes. Alumni members will deliver messages of the negative effects of Gangs, Guns and Drugs among youth.
The cornerstone of the program will feature the first City Wide Chicago High School Alumni Baseball Hall of Fame Game on Sunday, August 26, in Chicago’s Jackson Park.
The game will feature players who signed and/or played Major League Baseball also the event will feature profiles and photos of Alumni members who have made the commitment to the lessons of healthy living.
Chicago High School Alumni Baseball Hall of Fame Game members will coach in this year Kirby Puckett Youth Baseball League for ages 13-15 as part of a city wide outreach to schools and youth athletic programs.
The Chicago High School Alumni Baseball Hall of Fame Game members hope to raise the public awareness in today's society. Other objectives of the program include: educating audiences about the short- and long-term affect of Gangs and Guns use; providing guidance for developing healthy lifestyles and injury prevention; empowering students, parents and athletic administrators with the ability to identify and providing strategies to help individuals of all ages make informed decisions about their own health and in influencing the health of others.
The Alumni Game will be a fundraising campaign for the outreach in school program and will continue this fall in 10 High Schools reaching audiences city wide with meaningful education.
For more information, visit our Web site at www.eteamz.com/dickallen or call 708-527-4778
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Volunteers Needed ziffsistrunk@yahoo.com
To help with our league please email
ziffsistrunk@yahoo.com
The Kirby Puckett Youth Center,Inc., offer that and more. Our program and service promote and enhance the development of boys and girls by instilling a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and influence.
The Character and Leadership Development core program area empowers youth to support and influence their community, to sustain meaningful relationships with others, develop a positive self-image, participate in the democratic process and respect their own and others cultural identities.
Please email for more information: ziffsistrunk@yahoo.com
Kirby Puckett Baseball League/ Kirby Puckett Youth center, Inc.
Reduce The Violence Sports League.
Black Baseball World Series 2012 Players Needed (Small Fee)
(Entertainers, Marching Bands Needed)
Black Baseball World Series Tour 2012
August 1-15, 2012
Atlanta,Memphis,Birmingham,Cleveland, Cincinnati and Indianapolis
Kirby Puckett Youth Center, Inc. a local not for profit educational group seeks support to relive history.
Kirby Puckett Youth center, Inc. and local businesses has co-sponsored this yearly event for the past Five years, raising enough money to allow sixty (60) Illinois student athletes to relive the days of the Negro Leagues.
Each year youth from Illinois gather together to share sports experiences with each other. This year's event promises to be unlike any other in sports. This program will present an opportunity for these youth to participate in a video documentary / oral history of the National Negro League.
Sixty (60) Illinois student athletics will play in this year's World Series games (Seven Games in Seven Nights tracing the tracks of the National Negro League from Chicago to Cooperstown.
Players will be decked out and dressed in 1940's & 50's tailored zoot suits, the group will recapture the moment loss forever by playing local athletics in an historic Negro League style baseball game, using the colorful Negro League uniforms of each city to highlight the event.
Teams to be honored:
East Chicago, Indiana (Giants)
Nashville, Tenn. (Elite Giants)
Memphis, Tenn. (Red Sox)
Birmingham, Ala. (Black Barons)
Atlanta, Ga. (Black Cracker)
Washington DC (Elite Giants)
Pittsburg, Pa. (Crawfords)
Phil.Pa. (Stars)
New York City (Brooklyn Giants)
Baltimore, Ma. (Black Sox).
Players will be available for dailies, and live feeds.
Press representatives willing to travel on tour should send early for credentials ziffsistrunk@yahoo.com
To sponsor a youth please Call Mr. Ziff A. Sistrunk
Plan to help on Sat/Sun 2-4 Hours per day
Thank You
 KPBL
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