April 15 09
On Monday of this week, baseball lost two very prominent figures, Phillies announcer Harry Kalas and the colorful Mark “The Bird” Fidrych. When I heard about Fidrych’s passing, it brought back a funny “Andrew Story”. Andrew pitched a complete game in an all-star game and really kept his team in the game. Unfortunately, his team lost and was eliminated from the tournament. At the conclusion of the game, I saw something that I had never seen before in all my years of baseball. The umpire came into Andrew’s dug-out and interrupted the manager’s post-game talk. He said that he was so impressed with one of the players that he wanted to present him with a game ball. Everyone was kind of shocked. He then said “To Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, you kept your team in the game. You pitched a great game!” None of the kids had any idea who “The Bird” was and Andrew didn’t really know what was going on either until the umpire walked over and presented him with a game ball. Andrew didn’t talk to the ball like Fidrych, but there was a resemblance to all that curly hair sneaking out from under the cap. (See picture above for comparison.) It was a funny moment. Andrew, show “The Bird” around and have a catch with him. Maybe you can hit a home run off of him and Harry K. can call it “outta here”.
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The family of Kaylyn Warren has launched “Kay’s Kamp”, to fulfill Kaylyn’s wishes and honor her memory. It was Kaylyn’s desire to run a camp for kids with cancer here in Delaware. The Kaylyn Elaine Warren Foundation will be kicking off their inaugural “kamp” on Aug 9-15. This is a free sleepaway camp for kids who are surviving cancer. There will be medical supervision and more information can be found at www.kayskamp.org. I’m sure Kaylyn is smiling down on her family and friends. The Warrens are very special people and this kamp is going to be tremendously successful. If you know of any children that would like to attend, please contact Kamp Director Lisa Schmalbach at the website listed above.
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I want to share another story of generosity with you. As you know, so many kind and generous children (and families) have asked for donations to the B+ Foundation in lieu of birthday presents. The latest example of this really blew me away. I don’t want to embarrass her, but Savannah Pauley just sent us over $1,000 that she collected from her friends at her 10th birthday party. As you know, Savannah is one of our super brave Heroes and she continues to inspire us all. No one would blame her for thinking of herself, but she’s thinking of others! Thank you, Savannah, for your kindness. www.caringbridge.org/visit/savannahpauley1.
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