Baseball Programs
Home Run Challenge
The PCF Home Run Challenge allows everyone to join in the fight against prostate cancer by raising money for research through America's favorite pastime—baseball. With support from Major League teams, players, managers and their coaching staffs, and umpires, each home run hit in 60 selected games, played around Father's Day, raises money to fight prostate cancer.
One-A-Day Men's presents MLB Strikeout Prostate Cancer Challenge
Major League Baseball recently announced a four-year sponsorship agreement to make Bayer HealthCare's One-A-Day Multivitamins the "Official Multivitamin of Major League Baseball." As part of their partnership, the two companies created a new program, "One-A-Day Men's presents MLB Strikeout Prostate Cancer Challenge," which will help fund research to find a cure for prostate cancer in partnership with the Prostate Cancer Foundation. One-A-Day and Major League Baseball will donate $10 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation for every strikeout in Major League Baseball over the next four years. One-A-Day and Major League Baseball will donate $10 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation for every strikeout in Major League Baseball over the next four years.
Men's Senior Baseball League (MSBL)
The Men's Senior Baseball League (MSBL)/Men's Adult Baseball League (MABL) is a national organization with 325 local affiliates, 3,200 teams and 45,000 members who play organized amateur baseball in local leagues, 30 regional tournaments and six national tournaments.
On May 24, 2008, the Long Island Mens Senior Baseball League/Adult Baseball League set a Guinness record for the longest baseball game ever played by two teams of players 45 years of age or older and raised over $40,000 for the PCF. The game went on for 33 hours, 15 minutes and 45 seconds beating the old record of 32 hours 29 minutes 26 seconds set in Saint Louis last September. The two teams representing Long Island MSBL were the Brooklyn Dodgers and The New York Giants. The game went 99 innings and the score was 155 to 136 with the Giants winning.
On May 3, 2008, the Shreveport-Bossier Men's Senior Baseball League raised over $13,000 for the PCF with its 2nd Annual Pros vs. Joes game.
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