“Every baseball player remembers the feeling of stepping up to the plate as a kid, and swinging for the fences,” said Rick Scheidt, US vice president, Chevrolet marketing. “It’s easy to imagine that somewhere in America, there’s a future baseball star just starting out in a T-ball or coach-pitch baseball league.”
The carmaker has so far provided equipment, fund-raising support, and baseball clinics to more than 1.5 million youth baseball players and their families, donating more than $11 million. That money has also been used to buy more than 70,000 tickets to MLB and Minor League Baseball games and more than 350 clinics for young players, many with players and coaches from MLB. A total of 1,400 Chevrolet dealerships have pledged their support for local baseball leagues through the Chevy Youth Baseball program this year.
To help the future All-Stars, Chevrolet is partnering with The Scotts Company LLC, Ripken Baseball, Ripken Design, Rawlings Sporting Goods, MLB Advanced Media, and Major League Baseball to provide 100 prizes to local youth-baseball teams, including:
- 20 youth baseball field makeovers, with the 20 field nominees each receiving a year’s worth of ScottsMiracle-Gro products
- 20 baseball clinics from famed Ripken Baseball
- 60 baseball equipment packages for youth baseball teams from Rawlings
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