Home Runs for Heart; Big Swings for a Big Cause

The American Heart Association here in Philly holds a fundraiser every year called the Richie Ashburn Home Runs for Heart. It's a great event: you get to hit at home plate and shag fly balls in the outfield at Citizens Bank Park.

A few weeks before the actual event, they hold a Media Day and lucky guys like me get to spend a few hours at the ballpark basically doing what those who participate in Home Runs for Heart will be doing.

It rained last Tuesday for Media Day, but we got to hit in the Phillies' batting cages.

You can read the story I wrote for the Weekly Press about Home Runs for Heart here.

(Video by K. O'Connor & D.G. Ullman)