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Article: Major League Baseball Players and Volunteers of America Step Up to the Plate for Hurricane Survivors in Mississippi and Alabama.
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- PR Newswire
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- December 13, 2006
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GULFPORT, Miss., Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Volunteers of America and the Major League Baseball Players Trust joined forces today to provide disaster relief to hurricane survivors in Mississippi and Alabama in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. LaTroy Hawkins, relief pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, and right fielders Jacque Jones of the Chicago Cubs and Matt Lawton, a free agent, presented Volunteers of America with an $80,000 check to support its free medical clinic for hurricane survivors in Mississippi and Alabama at the clinic site in Gulfport. The Major League baseball players greeted and registered patients at the clinic with the hope of inspiring others to help ...