Never ever have I wanted to cry much as last night.I was so desperate I almost hollered to all the sisters in the room,
“Can someone please strip off their hormone patch and covertly throw it into my mouth?”
If the world could see all the goodness that happens inside of and in the back of stinky, sweaty, crotch adjusting rooms of Major League Baseball, you’d would wanna cry too. My family and I were so lucky to be a part of and attend the Chris Archer and Friends Dinner benefiting The #TedWilliamsMuseum last night in St.Petersburg, Florida.
As I sat and conversed with my new friends, family and seat mate Jill from Boston, she clutched onto a picture in her lap of Hall of Famer and Red Sox legend Wade Boggs.
She held it up to me and said I came to get his autograph, but stood in the long line and wasn’t successful. I said , “Hang on, I’ll tell his wife, she will get him over here.”
And in her Debbie Boggs fashion from the table next to us, in about .2 seconds Wade was there smiling and doing sign language to my hearing impaired friend.
He spent a lot of time with her, signing greetings and then signing her picture and hugging her. The entire night, every single solitary person I talked to was speaking about doing good for their charity. Rays star pitcher and evening’s host Chris Archer @ChrisArcher42 came over countless times from his table next to us and jarred some good natured ribbing to the Red Sox faithful at the same time raising awareness for his Archway Foundation.
From Brandy Halladay and I running around the auction tables bidding on and trying to win and out muscle others for items for her charity. https://www.gofundme.com/To talking a long time with Karra and Toby Hall about their upcoming golf and baseball event next week benefiting http://tobyhallfoundation.com The former Tampa Bay Rays star catcher told me,
“We have reached our goal for what we started out hoping to do , but I just wake up everyday and want to do more.” Kudos to the Yankees special advisor and author Ray Negron, who on sat on bended knee on the Tropicana Field turf and scrolled through his iPhone showing me pictures with sparks flying out of his eyes about his efforts and projects to raise money and awareness for inner city kids through the game of baseball.
As the night wore down and our hearts were full for all the goodness that event organizer Dave McCarthy does for the http://tedwilliamsmuseum.com/ on another sold out dinner, I wandered backstage to find Brandy jawing some cute boy in a bowties’ ear off about benefits, Bingo events and fundraising ideas. I stood back and watched her, mother of two, wife of one, amazed at her and thinking of my other SHEROES like Karra Hall and Debbie Boggs and thanked God for good people, baseball and hormone patches.Brandy Halladay, Toby and Karra Hall, Ray Negron, Tampa Bay Times sports writer Marc Topkin @TBTimes_Rays and others all working hard to raise money and awareness through baseball related charities. Oh yeah, by the way, the reason I didn’t mention distinguished hall of famer honoree and our sons travel ball coach @RoyHalladay , because he has made a second career out of poaching my followers from my sweet community on Twitter.
