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. The total began with the first game of the season and will run through the playoffs and World Series. There were more than 32,000 strikeouts during the 2007 regular season, per MLB. An update on the number of strikeouts will be announced each month through television and print media and an on-field ceremony will take place during the playoffs to announce the final tally for the season.
One-A-Day has also pledged $1 million to the Prostate Cancer Foundation if any pitcher records 21 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, which would be a new Major League record. Three pitchers have struck out 20 batters in a game: Roger Clemens in 1986 and 1996, Kerry Wood in 1998 and Randy Johnson in 2001.
Watch footage from the press conference:
Press Conference
Rich "Goose" Gossage, 2008 Hall of Fame Inductee
Dave Perron, Prostate Cancer Foundation
Tim Brosnan, MLB
Jay Kolpon, Bayer Healthcare
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