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Written by Gerard O'Donnell
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
 On June 6th and 7th, the Brooklyn Cyclones front office staff will
again play 24 straight hours of baseball in a charity fund-raising
effort, benefiting Autism Speaks, HeartShare Human Services of New
York, and the New York-Penn League Charitable Foundation (NYPLCF). Staff members (13 men and women, total) will take the field at 12 noon
on Friday the 6th, and in the first contest of the marathon, will face
a team made up of local media, which includes Gotham Baseball
Magazine's Owner and Executive Editor Mark Healey.
Also playing for the Media team will be actor Lou Martini, Jr. from the hit HBO series, “The Sopranos”, The Brooklyn Papers' Editor-In-Chief Gersh Kuntzman, Joe Janish from Mattingly Baseball, and from New York Sportscene Magazine, Editor-In-Chief Joe Pietaro and Managing Editor Joe McDonald.
Eleven more teams will follow in two-hour games until 12 noon on Saturday the 7th, including clubs made up of Cyclones' season-ticket holders, two Little League teams from Brooklyn, a club of folkks from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz's office and even a club made up of memebers of the U.S. Secret Service.
The Cyclones introduced the idea last May to raise money for Brooklyn food shelters. The event garnered national publicity, spawning the second season of "24" this May.
“Last year was fun, no doubt,” said Healey, who suffered the loss in the 2007 matchup between the “Clones staff and the Media, allowing three runs over his two innings of work of an evetnual 7-2 defeat. “Raising money for charity is always something Gotham believes in, but doing so while playing baseball at Keyspan Park? Doesn't get any better than that.”
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Last Updated ( Friday, 06 June 2008 )
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