First Baseball for a Cure event is a homerun

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Baldwin Little League players donned pink and white T-shirts on May 10 to raise money for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre during its first ever Baseball for a Cure event. The league raised north of $1,500 on the day.

Rob Oliveri, the league’s tournament director and Dee Cruz, its president, came up with the Baseball for a Cure idea, and decided to hold it on the day before Mother’s Day.

All little leaguers wore the same T-shirts the Baseball for a Cure logo and pink socks.

Tom Reilly, a league coach, said, “It was a great day all of the kids had fun and it brought the community together.”