#GoingToBat Community Spotlight

The #GoingToBat Community Spotlight features individual Major Leaguers and their charity efforts in the community. To learn more about the charitable interests and activities of Major Leaguers, please visit http://playerstrust.org/individual-player-charities/

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Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Jason Motte
Jason Motte is dominant against most opponents, but he’s still battling every day to gain the upper hand against a real-life adversary that affects almost everyone in one way or another -- cancer.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Jon Jay
#GOINGTOBAT COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: JON JAY THROWS STRIKES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Jake Peavy
Jake Peavy goes from pitching baseball to playing guitar for his foundation’s annual benefit concert.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Albert Pujols
Albert Pujols swapped his baseball cleats for basketball sneakers during his annual Albert’s All-Stars Basketball Game to benefit people with Down syndrome.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Anthony Rizzo
It was all smiles and chuckles for Anthony Rizzo at the second annual Laugh-Off For Cancer event.

The Jan. 14 event at Paris Club featured many comedy acts, including Chris Redd, Carl Michael Magic and Brody Stevens. Rizzo’s Cubs teammates also took the stage with improvisational actors from The Second City, a leader in improv-based sketch comedy.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Cole Hamels
Cole Hamels hasn’t added an inch to his 6-foot-4 frame but his reach through The Hamels Foundation keeps extending its educational mission.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Miguel Cabrera
Miguel Cabrera traded in his uniform for a tuxedo a few weeks ago at The Miggy Ball Gala, his foundation’s inaugural charity event. The event was held at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, where Cabrera resides in the offseason.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: David Price
Home was where David Price’s heart was last week when he announced he was donating $300,000 toward a baseball field designed to accommodate disabled kids at the same park he began his ascent as a player.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#GoingToBat Community Spotlight: Justin Turner

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