MLB – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com Good Celebrity is your best source for positive celebrity news and interviews Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:42:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.4 https://goodcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-gc_logo_button_bkgd512px-32x32.png MLB – Positive Celebrity News, Good Celebrity Gossip, Positive Entertainment News | Good Celebrity https://goodcelebrity.com 32 32 Chicago Cubs Give Young Fan Autographed Baseball After Foul Ball Was Thought to Have Been Stolen https://goodcelebrity.com/2018/07/25/chicago-cubs-autographed-baseball/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 17:42:05 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=4759 Social media users were outraged on Sunday when a Twitter video was released of a Chicago Cubs fan who seemed to be getting away with a dastardly deed – and even though it turned out to be a misunderstanding, the incident highlighted true sportsmanship in everybody involved. When going to a baseball game, DON’T be […]

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]]> Social media users were outraged on Sunday when a Twitter video was released of a Chicago Cubs fan who seemed to be getting away with a dastardly deed – and even though it turned out to be a misunderstanding, the incident highlighted true sportsmanship in everybody involved.

The video, which was published by sports outlet Cut4, depicted a Cubs player tossing a baseball to a young boy in the stands. The ball hits the floor, rolls behind the little fan’s seat, and is then snagged by an older man in the row behind him.

The man can be seen handing the ball to his wife as the boy looks on, and despite it being an incriminating image, the situation is not how it seems.

Thinking that the boy’s foul ball had been stolen by another spectator, the youngster was later given another ball that was autographed by Javier Baez, the Cubs’ infielder.

The boy was then delighted to be the proud owner of two game balls… that’s right, two game balls.

While the Cubs’s kind gesture towards a young fan may have been heartwarming enough, several Twitter users came forward to elaborate on the older man’s actions.

Chuck Mycoff was one of the spectators who had been sitting next to the man throughout the game. He took to social media to say that even though the gentleman looked like he had been stealing a prized possession from a kid, he had been catching foul balls throughout the game so he could give them to youngsters sitting around them.

A few innings previously, the man had caught a foul ball and given it to the very boy who received the Baez autograph – hence why he ended up with two game balls.

After he handed the ball to his wife in the video, she took a photo of it and passed it to another young fan sitting on her right.

The testimony was backed up by Jeff Rose, another spectator who had been sitting close to the man.

So all-in-all, there was no bad guy in this story – just a lot of kind men encouraging a kid’s love of the game.

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]]> MLB Teams Up with Boys & Girls Club of Mexico https://goodcelebrity.com/2018/05/09/mlb-boys-girls-club-of-mexico/ Wed, 09 May 2018 17:16:51 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=4458 Dreams came true on the corner of San Diego and San Vicente in the San Miguel neighborhood on Saturday. As part of a partnership between Major League Baseball and the Boys and Girls Club of Mexico, representatives from the two organizations along with Dodgers pitcher Kenley Jansen, Padres outfielder Manuel Margot, Mexican pitching legend Fernando Valenzuela, and […]

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]]> Dreams came true on the corner of San Diego and San Vicente in the San Miguel neighborhood on Saturday. As part of a partnership between Major League Baseball and the Boys and Girls Club of Mexico, representatives from the two organizations along with Dodgers pitcher Kenley Jansen, Padres outfielder Manuel Margot, Mexican pitching legend Fernando Valenzuela, and Hall of Fame Dodgers Spanish-language broadcaster Jaime Jarrin dedicated refurbishments to the computer center at the Club de Ninos y Ninas de Nuevo Leon, located in the Escobedo municipality.

“This is our second Boys & Girls Club that we are doing outside of the United States, the second in Mexico, and the clubs here work very closely with the Boys & Girls Club of America, our official charity, to make sure the programs here mirror their counterparts in the United States,” said Tom Brasuell, vice president of community affairs for MLB. “We want to see kids learn, play and grow. We want them to learn baseball, but we also want them to succeed in the classroom as well.”

The club in San Miguel, which is modeled after Boys & Clubs of America, serves more than 400 children daily. The center will feature new computers, printers, and interactive blackboards.

“You just want to have a positive influence on the children,” Jansen said. “I really enjoy being here with them and inspiring them because I was a kid once, too. It was nice see the kids supporting us and having fun with it, but it was about them and providing a place where boys and girls can learn.”

Jarrin served as the master of ceremonies for the event, which was held in the facility’s library. Brasuell reinforced Major League Baseball’s commitment to serving communities on and off the field and Valenzuela shared a few inspirational words. Jorge Garcia Segovia, president of Boys & Girls Clubs of Mexico, and Monica Sanchez, the Executive Director of the organization, were also in attendance.

“I think it’s important to give back to all people and not to forget people that have always supported you,” Valenzuela said. “What I always try to tell kids is to combine education and sports, because education is a really important part of life. Yes, in sports you can have a career, but you never know when that career will end. You focus on studying and that can help your entire life.”

Eduardo Ortega, the Padres’ Spanish-language broadcaster, and Alanna Rizzo, the Dodgers reporter for SportsNet L.A., were also among the guests present. Jansen and Margot participated in the ribbon cutting ceremony and later signed caps and baseballs for the children. They were among the last to leave the building when the ceremony was over.

“This is real world, being with the kids and giving back to the community,” said Ortega, who is from Mexico and is in 32nd season with the Padres. “To serve the kids, give them these types of spaces is something that makes the communities much better. What Major League Baseball is doing through these initiatives is something the entire world must do to help the children of the future.

This article originally appeared on MLB.com.




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]]> Major League Baseball Team Hits Home Run for the Earth: Stops Serving Plastic Straws https://goodcelebrity.com/2018/04/25/major-league-baseball-stops-serving-plastic-straws/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 23:07:07 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=4421 The Chicago White Sox will officially become the first Major League Baseball team to stop serving single-use plastic straws at their representative stadium. Last week, the team announced that they would no longer be automatically giving out straws with their stadium food at Guaranteed Rate Field – although biodegradable straws will be available upon request. Th initiative, […]

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]]> The Chicago White Sox will officially become the first Major League Baseball team to stop serving single-use plastic straws at their representative stadium.

Last week, the team announced that they would no longer be automatically giving out straws with their stadium food at Guaranteed Rate Field – although biodegradable straws will be available upon request.

Th initiative, which kicked off on Earth Day, is expected to prevent more than 215,000 plastic straws from ending up in the landfill over the course of the season.

The project was also made in collaboration with the Shedd Aquarium’s “Shedd the Straw” campaign to get Chicago businesses and individuals to stop using plastic straws.

Brooks Boyer, vice president of sales and marketing, said in a White Sox press release: “We are honored to be the first ballpark to take the step of reducing our single-use plastic straws for nearly a full season…”

“The entire Guaranteed Rate Field family – the White Sox, Delaware North and Levy (concession partners) – is proud to collaborate with Shedd to share this important message with our fans and hope it will inspire others to do what they can in their own lives.”

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]]> MLB Community React to the Passing of Roy Halladay and Remembers His Legacy https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/11/08/mlb-reacts-to-passing-of-roy-halladay/ Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:44:22 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3525 Roy Halladay walked into the visitors’ clubhouse at Camden Yards drenched in sweat, wearing an expression of exhaustion in the hours before a September game in Baltimore. The Blue Jays’ ace looked like he had just finished flipping oversized tires in the stadium parking lot amidst Maryland’s fatiguing humidity. This was not all that unusual […]

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Roy Halladay walked into the visitors’ clubhouse at Camden Yards drenched in sweat, wearing an expression of exhaustion in the hours before a September game in Baltimore. The Blue Jays’ ace looked like he had just finished flipping oversized tires in the stadium parking lot amidst Maryland’s fatiguing humidity.

This was not all that unusual of a scene — Halladay’s workout routine during his playing days bordered on legendary — except for one important bit of detail. This was the final day of the 2008 regular season, and the pitcher had no more starts left on the schedule. His next outing would be Opening Day, seven months in the future.

“Roy, you’re done!” yelled one of his teammates.

Halladay glared in his direction, continuing on with his pregame program.

There are countless Halladay tales that could be told, and it’s unfortunate that today is the day to tell them. Heartbreaking news spread on Tuesday that the retired pitcher had died following a plane crash off the Florida coast. Halladay was 40. It was a shame that injuries robbed him of a full career. It is even more crushing that Halladay’s wife, Brandy, their two sons and their family and friends will be robbed of him enjoying a full life.

“He was the guy that you aspired to be,” former Blue Jays teammate John McDonald said on Tuesday night. “The family part of Doc that I got to see, I just loved. And then you see this other side, the competitor and the dedication to his craft. I mean, there’s such parallels between the professional Doc and the dad Doc. He seemed to want to be amazing at everything.

“I remember thinking, ‘It’s awesome seeing both sides of this person and getting to be around him and wanting to figure out, how am I going to be later on in life? Can I be that good? Can I be that good of a dad?'”

There was, of course, the incredible production of a pitcher at the height of his skills. Beyond that, though, there was the selfless leader off the field. Halladay and his wife were consistently involved in charity work in Toronto. For many home games, he’d host kids from the Hospital for Sick Children and make a point to pay them a visit, even if he was pitching that day.

In spring 2006, Halladay signed a three-year contract extension with the Blue Jays — two seasons before he would have been a free agent. Making as much money as possible on the open market was not his priority. Doc wanted to bring a World Series to Toronto.

“Even if he dominated and did really well, it wasn’t enough if we lost,” McDonald said.

Halladay led by example with his tireless work ethic. The pitcher is the only player in my dozen years as a beat reporter who would immediately look for a clock when asked if he had a few spare minutes to talk. It was not that Halladay did not want to discuss pitching — he loved to talk about his craft — but that his routine was so scheduled that he needed to respond with a specific time.

In 2006, when I was fresh out of college and learning my way around the Blue Jays’ beat, I approached Halladay at the Spring Training complex to set up an interview for the next morning.

“Sure,” Doc replied. “I’ll be here at 5 a.m.”

Halladay waited for my face to contort into frustration, then smirked.

“I’ll talk to you at 8,” Halladay added before heading to the practice mounds.

“You knew he was a good player, but you saw why,” McDonald said. “You saw the mental side of what he wanted to do on the field, the physical side of what he prepared to do on the field and how that came together in a mindset of just wanting to win.”

Flying was always in the back of Halladay’s mind, too.

Long after many games had ended in Toronto, Halladay would walk out to the field inside Rogers Centre and fly one of his remote-control planes under the dome’s dark rafters. While writers typed away in the press box, his small airplane would buzz around the ballpark. He enjoyed talking about his dad’s career as a corporate pilot and expressed how — once the whole baseball thing was over — he’d be getting his pilot’s license, too.

In October 2006, one of Halladay’s close friends, former pitcher Cory Lidle, died in a plane crash in New York. When reached for comment by phone that night, Halladay politely declined, expressing that the news had hit him too hard. More than a decade later, it was Halladay’s former teammates and friends who had a text thread going in the wake of the tragedy that claimed the pitcher.

“It’s you realizing, what do you say to each other?” McDonald said. “How do you console each other when you’re crushed by the loss of a friend?”

This article originally appeared on MLB.com.




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]]> Oakland A’s Help Rebuild Young Fan’s MLB Collection After It’s Destroyed by Wildfires https://goodcelebrity.com/2017/10/23/oakland-athletics-help-rebuild-mlb-collection/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:15:21 +0000 https://goodcelebrity.com/?p=3498 The Oakland A’s baseball club knew they had to step up when a 9-year-old fan, whose house was destroyed by the recent horrific Northern California wildfires that have destroyed over 8,400 structures, reached out about losing all his treasured memorabilia. Loren Smith, a self-described A’s superfan, sent a letter to the ball club about losing […]

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]]> The Oakland A’s baseball club knew they had to step up when a 9-year-old fan, whose house was destroyed by the recent horrific Northern California wildfires that have destroyed over 8,400 structures, reached out about losing all his treasured memorabilia.

Loren Smith, a self-described A’s superfan, sent a letter to the ball club about losing his collection of jerseys, baseball cards, and baseballs in the recent fires.

Dave Kaval, Oakland Athletics President, saw the letter published on ABC7 News and immediately organized a memorabilia drive to rebuild Smith’s lost collection.

“When we heard that Loren lost all of his A’s memorabilia from throughout the years, we knew we had to do something,” Kaval said. “We are overwhelmed by the generosity we received from players, others teams in the league, and baseball fans from the entire country who so quickly rallied to bring some joy to this wonderful young fan.”

The A’s have even surprised Smith with the opportunity to throw a ceremonial first pitch at game next year as well as season tickets.

Donations from all over flowed in for Loren’s collection. The A’s players chipped in even more on top of their donation as well as other teams, including the Giants, Marlins, Rays, Red Sox, Cubs, Indians, and Tigers!

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