George Foster Baseball Clinic

Third Annual Father Day Weekend “Batter Up” Community Clinic

Summer continues to bring the Heat for the Third Annual Father Day Weekend “Batter Up” Community Clinic with Former Major League Player George Foster, Comcast Corporation and Dads Do Make A Difference .

The traditional Free “Third Father’s Day weekend Batter Up” will be held on Saturday, June 20, 2009 from 9:30 am – 1 Pm at the Walter Pop Smith Little League Field on the corner of Sherman Park and Munson Street, New Haven.

Together we can make a difference, and continue the challenge to uplift and empower the males who will undoubtedly leave an impact on our community. It’s up to us to make it a positive experience for all.

Retired MLB Player George Foster (New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds) will participate in Free Baseball Clinic in New Haven in Celebration of the “Third Annual Father’s Day Weekend.” It will focus on Kids and their Dads from the New Haven and surrounding area in Connecticut.

For the third straight year, “Batter Up” held on Father’s Day Weekend “Comcast Corporation’s will continue to make a difference in not only sponsoring the event but their employees will volunteer in making it a stellar event with George Foster’s professional skills and their dedication. This team, Comcast , retired MLB Player George Foster and Dads Do Make A Difference (DDMADD) Dads provide a free community baseball clinic that has everyone participating in making a positive impact in the community and individual lives .

Foster will teach the fundamentals in developing baseball skills and techniques, as well as self-confidence with dads and their kids. The free clinic will also feature free food along with t-shirts for the first 125 children.

Dads Do Make A Difference (DDMAD) is a positive movement with a message. Working with Dads and kids is a transformative and sometimes eye-opening experience. Most importantly, it’s an opportunity to capture or recapture something we all have in common...a father. One of the Dads Do Make A Difference (DDMAD) missions is to increase the positive interactions of dads and other positive males and kids.

This simple statement represents a needed message and movement: To increase the positive awareness and interactions of dads and their children. This innovative grassroots initiative impacts families, blazing trails and tackling the real issues facings dads and kids everywhere ---from the halls of Congress, to Celebrities, lending assistance in courts, jails, and public schools to its beginning base, in the hub of the community.

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (http://www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. With 24.7 million cable customers, 14.1 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.2 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast's Internet business. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.