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| Blue (the Tampa Yankees Mascot) and the Tampa Yankees recently made an appearance on Saturday August,4th at the 7th annual Humane Society’s telethon to raise money for local animal shelters. Blue had a couple of appearances during the six-hour event. He even goofed around with the hosts and got to play with the animals! Blue helped the Humane Society raise over $150,000 and helped generate awareness for animals that need homes. The telethon was on WFLA Channel 8 in Tampa and ran for six hours. |
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The Tampa Yankees are proud to announce that a donation of $5000 will be donated to the H. Lee Moffit Cancer Institute from the auction proceeds of May 12th game. Thank you to all that came out. We look forward to making next years event bigger and better.
TAMPA YANKEES VISIT SCHOOLS
IN THE TAMPA BAY AREA
On Thursday, April 5th, The Tampa Yankees staff and mascot,
Blue visited Cleveland Elementary. Blue met over 60, fifth-grade students and teachers. Students had the opportunity to win prizes by answering Yankees trivia. But not all students were left empty handed; each child received a Yankees gift along with a coloring sheet, word search and their own pack of baseball cards.
Blue and the Tampa Yankees staff will visit ten more schools in the Tampa Bay area. All the schools that we visit with this year will all attend one of three games catered especially for kids. At the game, each child will receive a lunch consisting of a hot dog, chips and a drink. The games will be held April 18th, May 8th and 13th and the game times have been changed to day games with these kids in mind. It was a success last year, and we have more children coming this year, to make the event even bigger and better!
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On May 11th the Tampa Yankees staff and mascot brought joy and excitement to students at both Anderson Elementary and Lavoy Exceptional Center.
Armed with prizes, staff members tested the students to see how much they knew about the New York Yankees and the Tampa Yankees.
As soon as the Tampa Yankees’ mascot Blue entered the room at Anderson Elementary, it was filled with the smiles and giggles of happy children. Every face was fixed on staff member Matt Gess as he explained the nature of the visit and the trivia game. To the surprise of the T-Yanks staff and the Anderson Elementary faculty the group of approximately 80 students performed well, showing that they knew a great deal about the Yankees.
As the visit came to a close, the Tampa Yankees staff reminded the students at Anderson Elementary that they would be attending a Tampa Yankees game and to cheer as loud as the could for the T- Yanks. The students expressed their enthusiasm and excitement about attending the Tampa Yankees with cheers.
The staff and mascot loaded up and it was off to the next school, Lavoy Exceptional Center.
At Lavoy, the Tampa Yankees staff had the pleasure of meeting nearly 70 exceptional students with special needs. The students at Lavoy Exceptional Center were over-excited with the mascot and the baseball equipment that we brought. We gave the students a chance to get an up close and personal experience with real baseball equipment. The students tried on some of the equipment and imitated baseball players.
Blue and the Tampa Yankees staff had the opportunity to visit Westshore Elementary as well on April 13th. “This will be continued throughout the season as we try and enlighten and educated the younger
fan of the game of baseball”, said Vance Smith, General Manager of the Tampa Yankees.
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