I can’t say that nothing has been going on since my last entry, because we have been swamped with things going on.  To start, I recently returned from our Spring Training facility in Goodyear, Arizona.  I was there for about a week for our yearly signing day.  This is a day where our all of our front office autographed needs are fulfilled.  We have the players come in early before their workouts and have them sign.  And sign.  And sign.  All in all, we had about 4,000 items ranging from baseballs to photos, jerseys and bats get autographed and then authenticated.  All in a shade under 3 hours.  Not bad.

The majority of the items are used for our in-kind donation requests that come from local charities across the state of Ohio.  If you are having a fundraiser, feel free to submit by going to www.indians.com and clicking on the “community” tab.  While we try to respond favorably to all requests, there are some that we just can not fulfill based on our guidelines.

 What else has been going on?  Our Cleveland Indians KeyBank High Achievers Kids Club (yes, it is a mouthful, but totally worth it) just finished the 1st semester of submittals.  For those that don’t know, this is a free program for kids ages K-8th grade.  They have two opportunities to submit their grades, attendance and reading forms–once for the 1st semester and once for the 2nd semester.  They earn STARS based on maintaining A’s and B’s, getting perfect attendance, and reading 3 books per semester.  They can then redeem the STARS for prizes at the Team Shops (free game tickets, posters, chances to win meet-and-greets, etc.)  For more information on that, go to www.indians.com/highachievers or shoot me a comment and I’ll get you more info.

 
This Wednesday, we’ll be taking our Indians in the Community program out to the Boys and Girls Club (Broadway Club), where we’ll be hanging out with the kids from 3:00pm to 6:00pm.  I’ll have more on that Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

That should cover everything that I wanted to cover.  Stay tuned later this week for more information!