The SMP Black All Stars are working extremely hard on All Star baseball daily. In addition, they are also working hard on “Knock Cancer out of the BallPark” program.
“Knock Cancer out of the Ball Park” is for awareness and the Black team (in conjunction with Children’s Hospital) is working to collect sunscreen and chapstick for all cancer patients at Children’s Hospital.
The team is trying to raise awareness and its goal is to fill the back of a pick up truck full of sunscreen and chapstick for the patients. Ben and Valerie Padd have been instrumental in “Knocking Cancer out of the Ball Park” program. Valerie contacted Children’s Hospital and a representative came out to the park and spoke to the team. The boys are 100% behind the program. Home Depot donated the orange buckets for them to collect the sunscreen and chapstick.
The Children’s Hospital of Alabama is the 10th busiest pediatric medical center in the United States. Children’s Hospital is Alabama’s single largest provider of specialized pediatric services for all forms of cancer, leukemia, brain and spinal cord tumors, hemophilia and other bleeding disorders and sickle cell diseases. It also is home to the Lowder stem cell transplant program and the only pediatric bone marrow transplant program in the state. It is closely affiliated with the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) but it is not part of UAB.
The SMP Black All Star has received some nice feedback from the Children’s Hospital facebook page as well.
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