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Craig Breslow ’02 Nominated for MLB’s Clemente Award for Community Service
On-line Voting Now Available on Major League Baseball Website
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Former Yale lefthander Craig Breslow ’02, a reliever with the Oakland Athletics, has been nominated for Major League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente Award for humanitarian and community service. Breslow founded the Strike 3 Foundation, a charitable organization that heightens awareness, mobilizes support and raises funding for childhood cancer research. He created the foundation in honor of his sister Lesley, a survivor of pediatric thyroid cancer. On-line voting for the award is available on Major League Baseball’s website, mlb.com, through Oct. 8.
Breslow was honored by the A’s in a pregame ceremony before the Sept. 8 game against the Seattle Mariners at the Oakland Coliseum. He is one of 30 candidates for the Clemente Award, which is named in honor of the Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer who died in a plane crash in 1972 while delivering supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Read the full story here »
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