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Striking Out Cancer Event Moved to July 1
09:41AM / Monday, June 26, 2023
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- After Saturday's rain forced a postponement, the Striking Out in the Berkshires Jimmy Fund fund-raiser will try again on Saturday, July 1 at Clapp Park.
 
Players of any ability are welcome to participate in a charity baseball and softball games.
 
So are players with no ability at all.
 
"I've had some people call and text me and ask, 'Do you have to be a baseball player?' No, you don't," organizer Joe DiCicco said last year of the Striking Out Cancer in the Berkshires event. "It's about fun and about raising money for a good cause."
 
DiCicco started Striking Out Cancer in 2021 in honor of his wife, who was a patient at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute prior to her passing in 2000.
 
DiCicco modeled the event on other daylong sporting event fund-raisers and believed at the time the Clapp Park event was the first of its kind in New England: a continuous game with players rotating in throughout the day as needed to fill out the lineup card.
 
This year's third annual edition begins at 9 a.m. on July 1 and is scheduled to run through 5 p.m.
 
Players are asked to make a $10 donation to Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund, which gives them the chance to take the field and receive a T-shirt commemorating the fund-raiser.
 
For information, contact DiCicco at 518-390-2512 or email jdicicco7@aol.com.
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