April 3, 2008
B-W Baseball Alumni Kick Off 2008 Home Runs for Heritage Campaign
The Baldwin-Wallace College alumni baseball players kicked off their 2008 “Home Runs for Heritage” fundraising campaign this week to help pay for the design and construction of a new press box at Heritage Field.
Heritage Field has one of the best playing fields in the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the facilities around it have steadily improved, but its “press box” is nothing but a wooden shack with a beat-up scorer’s table that sits behind the backstop. It’s an eyesore, and it obstructs the view from our new bleachers.
For the last few years, the B-W baseball alumni have been raising money to build a new, modern press box facility with a team meeting room and training table, a recruiting office, and a concession stand and restrooms.
Last year’s inaugural Home Runs for Heritage campaign raised $3,752 by rallying dozens of B-W baseball alumni, parents and fans to pledge a donation for each of the 11 home runs the Yellow Jackets hit during the 2007 season.
You can make a pledge to this year’s campaign right now at the Home Runs for Heritage home page, or you can send your pledge by e-mail message to heritage@bwbaseball.com.
Thank you for supporting the Home Runs for Heritage campaign!
May 27, 2007
Home Runs for Heritage Campaign Tops $3,000
The Baldwin-Wallace College baseball alumni are proud to announce that this year’s Home Runs for Heritage campaign raised more than $3,000 to help pay for the design and construction of a new press box at Heritage Field.
Dozens of generous B-W baseball alumni, parents and fans pledged a total of $216 for each of the 11 home runs the Yellow Jackets hit this season, giving us $2,376 in promised donations. We also received $760 in unpledged, direct donations, bringing our total proceeds to $3,136.
All of the pledges and donations that we collect from our supporters are immediately deposited in the college’s Heritage Field fund, but we plan to present a ceremonial check to Coach Fisher at this year’s alumni baseball game on Homecoming morning, October 13.
Thank you to everyone who made our inaugural Home Runs for Heritage campaign a success. If you missed your chance to join this season’s campaign, you can make an “off-season” donation to the Heritage Field fund at any time of year by sending a designated gift to B-W’s Development Office.
And you can look forward to another Home Runs for Heritage campaign next year!
March 9, 2007
B-W Baseball Alumni Kick Off Home Runs for Heritage Campaign
Heritage Field has come a long way since the 1950s, when a rudimentary ball field with a couple of benches and a chicken-wire backstop was carved out of abandoned farmland on the east end of the Baldwin-Wallace College campus.
Today, it has one of the best playing fields in the Ohio Athletic Conference, and the facilities around it have steadily improved since the Yellow Jackets hosted back-to-back OAC championship tournaments in the mid-1980s. Just a few years ago, an eight-foot-high outfield fence was installed, and last season saw the debut of permanent bleachers.
But one thing about Heritage Field hasn’t changed in 50 years: There’s still no press box.
While our rivals’ ballparks, like John Carroll’s Schweikert Field and Otterbein’s Fishbaugh Field, have been upgraded with new press boxes in recent years, Heritage Field’s “press box” is nothing but a wooden shack with a beat-up scorer’s table that sits behind the backstop. It’s an eyesore, and it obstructs the view from our new bleachers.
For the last few years, the B-W baseball alumni have been raising money to build a new, modern press box facility with a team meeting room and training table, a recruiting office, a concession stand and restrooms.
This week we kicked off the “Home Runs for Heritage” campaign. We’re asking all of our alums to pledge a donation for every home run the Yellow Jackets hit during the 2007 season. All of the money raised will be contributed to the Heritage Field fund at B-W to help pay for the design and construction of our new press box.
We’re also inviting fans and supporters of the B-W baseball program to join us in our campaign.
Please help us by pledging whatever you can to the Home Runs for Heritage campaign. As a guide to your pledge, the Jackets have averaged about 25 home runs a season since 1995. No pledge is too small! We need as many pledges as we can get to demonstrate the support for a new press box to the college’s new administration.
You can make your pledge online at the Home Runs for Heritage home page, or you can send your pledge by e-mail message to heritage@bwbaseball.com.
Thank you for supporting the Home Runs for Heritage campaign!
