View From The Hill: Volume 6 No. 1

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Volume 6, No. 1 June 2014

Serving Humanitarian Need Through the Love of Sport

The Cubs Celebrate 100 Years of Wrigley Field

View from the HillThe Fergie Jenkins Foundation Newsletter

For the majority of his nearly 20 year career Fergie calledhicago his home as he spent close to a decade with thehicago Cubs. In 1966 Fergiebuted as a Chicago Cub and ins rst game after being tradedwent ve scoreless innings

d managed to hit a home run

the Cubs two run win overe Dodgers. For the next sevenasons Fergie would makehicago his home and Wrigleyeld his home stadium. After beingded he would return to the Cubs1982 for his nal season in theg leagues and was inducted intoe Hall of Fame as a Chicago Cub.

The Chicago Cubs as a team has a long history and a fan baseat is arguably the most loyal in all of professional sports. Itnot just the team that has a long history but the stadiumey call home as well. Wrigley Field is one of the most notablelds in Major League Baseball.

This year the Chicago Cubs organization celebrates the 100ar anniversary of Wrigley Field. The celebration will takeace over the entirety of the 2014 season with various eventsking place throughout the year. On April 23rd, the officialniversary of the elds opening day, the Chicago Cubs helde beginning of its 100 years of Wrigley Field Celebrations.rgie was in attendance for the day of celebration and wasined by other Cubs legends such as Billy Williams, Andre

Dawson and Randy Hundley. Fergie even sang Take Me Outto the Ballgame during the seventh inning stretch along with

Harry Careys wife.

The rst 30,000 fans inattendance at the game receiveda 1914 Chicago Federals jersey,the same jersey worn by theteam to commemorate the day. The festivities also included theunveiling of a 400 pound cakecreated at Carlos Bakery, thesetting of TLCs Cake Boss.

While the Cubs unfortunatelylost to the Diamondbacks, no onecould stop the celebration of one

of the most famous staidums inprofessional sports.

The Foundation and Fergiewill continue to travel toChicago throughout the yearto continue the celebration atWrigley Field. The Foundationwill set up shop at numerousgames throughout the summerand plan to attend an eventplanned by Vicki Santo, the wifeof Fergies old team mate andfriend Ron Santo.

Inside This Issue

MLB Fan Fests

May Card Show

Cubs Interns .

Phoenix Golf

Spring Training ..

Fergie Taking a walk at his old home, Wrigley Field.


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The Fergie Jenkins FoundationWho We Are

Fergie Jenkins .................... ChairmanCarl Kovacs .................... PresidentJohn Oddi ........ Executive Director

Board of Directors

Jaff Stevenson Paul CartwrightReid Strongman Kelly McGif nBarry House David SchurmanRick Quirk Denise StonePeter Warkentin Dave Hamilton

Elite Volunteers

Foundation Staff

Brett VareySpecial Events Coordinator

Kerrigan McNeillPublic Relations Coordinator

(Editor)

Geoff BassettCommunity Relations

Noah AndersonMarketing Assitant

For more information

Mail t : C P - S , S .C , ON, C L R P- 88- 8 [email protected]

Swinging for the Fences

PROFILING THE CHARITIES

WE ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT

Cubs care is fund of The McCormick Foundation.Through the fund Cubs Care, the McCormick Foundationhas donated more than $19 million to not-for protorganizations within Chicago since 1991. Contributionsto Cubs Care are made through memorials, tributes anddirect donations, as well as the proceeds from ChicagoCubs events. The McCormick Foundation is a nonprotorganization committed to making life better for ourchildren, communities and country. to support theircommunities.

The Peoria Diamond Club is a non-prot organization,based in Peoria, AZ, whose focus is to redistribute revenuesand donations to local youth groups and childrensprograms.

Run almost exclusively by volunteers, the Peoria Diamond

Club maintains an active prensence at all San Diego Padresand Seattle Mariners Spring Training games, leadinggameday operations and other stadium activities.

The Fergie Jenkins Foundation is proud to continue tosupport the Peoria Diamond Club through our CactusLeague autograph fundraisers.

Interns

Stacy ArrowsmithDennis Coulson

Ben Craig

Bill LoftusSid Stern

Steve Swan

Tyler HarrisonSport Management

Zack SchipperSport Management

Ryan CouperousSports Managment

Bryan RobinsonSport Management

Courtney LucianoSport Management


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A FEW CUBS JOIN THE PACK

The year 2014 has been the yearof the Chicago Cubs. With theCubs celebrating the 100 year An-niversary of their home Stadium,Wrigley Field, there hase been agreat deal of focus on Chicagosfavourite Major League Baseballteam. The Foundation took everychance possible to join Fergies oldteam in their celebration and even

added a few new team members who came to us from theChicago Cubs.

Spring Training alwayspromises to be a verylucrative and busy time for theFoundation and Fergie. Thatbeing said it is always impor-tant that the Foundation hasenough man power to run notone but at least three ball parks

a day throughout the monthof March. This year the Foun-dation turned to the ChicagoCubs for help andrecruited not one or two, butseven of their interns to spendSpring Training with the Foun-dation.

Auggie Arundel, KatieBrocksmith, Justin Kavanagh,Lauren Monsen, Pat Manaher,Erika Trojan and Michael Wasche all joined the Foundationteam during Spring Training. Each one came with a positiveattitude and a willingess to work hard. While there time withthe Foundation may have been short they will also be a partof the Foundation family and we would like to extend ourthanks for their tremendous work during Spring Training.

Cubs Interns Lauren and KatieFergie with interns Pat, Auggie, Mike and Justin.

Cubs intern Erika at Phoenix Golf

The Foundation and Red Cross Join Forces to Help StopBullying

The TorontoInternational Centre inMississauga was onceagain home for theAnnual Sportcard and

Memorabilia Expo. The event broughttogether sportsfans and collectorsas they made theirway through the halllled with hundreds

of vendors with everything from sports memorabiliato comics. The three day event also offered guests theopportunity to meet with a number of different celebrityguests including Brett Hull and Doug Gilmour.

Fergie and the Foundation staff made their way toOntarios Capital city for their annual appearace at the Expo. This year Fergie brought out a couple of familiar faces asfellow Hall of Famers Gaylord Perry and Jim Bunning joinedhim at the Foundation booth. The Foundations baseballthemed guests were round up by Luis Tiant and Tony Oliva. The Foundation usually sticks to baseball guests but thisyear we also welcomed Chicago Blackhawks Stanley CupWinner and National Hockey Hall of Famer Pierre Pilote aswell as World Boxing Hall of Famer George Chuvalo.

Fergie and our guests signed autographs for fansin order to help support the Canadian Red Cross. The

Foundation and Canadian Red Cross team up for this eventevery year and this year the Red Cross helped promote itsanti bullying campaign, RespectED.

Did you Know?

Wrigley Field was the rst park that allowed fansto keep foul balls. In 1915 owner Charlie Weeghmanannounced that the teams fans would be allowed tokeep balls hit into the stands. Prior to Weeghmansdecision, baseball fans were forced to give the ballback to an usher.

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December 2013

December 6 Fergie Jenkins Foundation CharityAutograph Signings feat. Pierre Pilote Sports Authority Schaumberg, IL

December 18-22 Fergie Jenkins Foundation CharityAutograph Signings feat. Pierre Pilote Sports N Moreat Yorktown Center Mall Lombard, IL

January 2014 January 17-19 Chicago Cubs Convention SheratonChicago Chicago, IL

January 25-27 Minnesota TwinsFest Target FieldMinneapolis, MN

January 25 Texas Rangers Fan Festival Global LifePark Arlington, TX

February 2014February 23-25 The 8th Annual Fergie JenkinsCelebrity Classic The Wigwam Litch eld Park, AZ

March 2014

March 1-28 Fergie Jenkins Foundation Spring Training autograph fundraisers Multiple Arizonalocations

April 2014April 23 Chicago Cubs 100 Year AnniversaryCelebrations Wrigley Field Chicago, IL

May 2014May 2-4 - Sportcard & Memorabilia Expo feat. JimBunning, George Chuvalo, Tony Oliva, Gaylord Perry,

Pierre Pilote and Luis Tiant International Centre Mississauga, ON

May 4-5 Toronto Maple Leafs Baseball Banquet &First Pitch Marriott by Toronto Airport & Christie Pits Toronto, ON

May 30-June 1 North American Sports and HobbyExpo Windsor Family Credit Union Center Windsor,ON

FOUNDATION ROAD MAPWHERE WEVE BEEN AND WHERE WERE GOING

Cubs, Rangers and Twins Fest


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Last year our annualcelebrity golf tourna-ment held in Phoenix,AZ found a new home

during the month ofFebruary. The successof last years event leadthe Foundation to holdthe event in Februaryon a permanent basis.

The 8th Annual Fergie Jenkins Celebrity Golf Classictook place on February 22nd at the Wigwam Resortand Golf Club in Litcheld, AZ.

In coinciding with MLB Spring Training theFoundation was able to welcome a number of differ-ent celebrity guests from the world of baseball. Ourguests were not just former baseball players withnumerous guests from other sports such as football,hockey and basketball to name a few. Fergie was ableto hit the green in his home state with help from a fewfriends including regulars like Pierre Pilote, Ron Robin-son, Vida Blue, and Meadowlark Lemon.

Last yearFergie was unableto play and mannedthe putting contest

but this year thattask was taken onby former Minne-sota Twins great andWorld Series winnerJim Mudcat Grant.

Every year the event takes place with a ce-lebrity Meet and Greet the evening before. This yeardue to high demand the event was kept soley for theFoundations sponsors and our golfers. The event onceagain took place at the Phoneix Airport Hampton Inn.

The Foundation would like to thank its manyvolunteers as well as all of our celebrity guests andgolfers. The Foundation would also like to extend ourthanks to the staff of the Hampton Inn and the Wig-wam Resort for hosting our event. The Foundationlooks forward to next years event which promises tobe as successfulas ever.

A Round of Golf in Phoenix Brings Out the Celebs

The Foundation Makes Phoenix Home During the Spring This Spring the Foundation staff packed upthe event vans and headed down to Phoenix, AZ. TheFoundation moved into the HamptonInn which has become our home awayfrom home during Cactus LeagueSpring Training.

While there the Foundation setup booths at ve stadiums throughoutthe Phoenix area. The staff broke upinto three separate teams with booths

at the Spring Training home stadiumsfor the Oakland Athletics (Phoenix Mu-nicipal Stadium), the Seattle Marinersand San Diego Padres (Peoria Sports Complex), theSan Francisco Giants (Scottsdale Stadium), the TexasRangers and Kansas City Royals (Surpise RecreationCampus) and of course the Chicago Cubs(Cubs Park).

The Foundation welcomed its regular guestssuch as Gaylord Perry, Bert Campaneris, Rollie Fin-gers, Jim Mudcat Grant, Willie Wilson and otherswho would join Fergie at the various games set upthroughout Phoenix. We were lucky enough to have

others join us throughout the month including formerOakland As, JohnBlue Moon Odom, Vida Blue, Lee

Smith, and George Foster to name afew. Fergie and his guests met withfans and signed autographs all whileraising funds for specic charities ateach ballpark.

This year the Foundation alsoadded a few new fresh faces to ourstaff during our time in Phoenix. The

Foundation staff was rounded up byseven new interns, Justin, Auggie,Erika, Lauren, and Mike who all joined

the Foundation during Spring Training. The Foundation would like to thank all of the

staff and volunteers at each ball park for all of theirhelp during the season.We would like to also extend aspecial thank you to Diane Robins and the entire staffof the Hampton Inn for their generosity and for onceagain being the Foundations Spring Training homeand family. See you next year!


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Coming up in our next issue of View from the Hill : The Fergie Jenkins Charity Golf Classic, St. Catharines MLB All Star Fan Fest 2014, Minnesota

The Fergie Jenkins Celebrity Golf Classic, St. Catharines

Toronto Sportcard and Memorabilia Expo, Mississauga

Foundation Updates

How to Make a Donation to the Fergie Jenkins Foundation

As a non-prot organization, the Fergie Jenkins Foundation relies on the generosity of itssponsors, donors and supporters to conduct its day-to-day activities. There are a number of

ways that you can assist the Foundations charitable efforts.

Tax-refundable cash or cheque donation

In-kind donation, which will also promote your business

Hole sponsorship at one of our three annual charity golf tournaments

Sponsorship of our quarterly newsletter

Decal sponsorship to have your company logo featured on one of our three event vans

If you have your own creative idea how youd like to donate to Fergies charitableefforts, please contact the office at your earliest convenience.

Fergie would like to express his sincere thanks toPICS PLUS, GRIMSBY for its outstanding printing of

View from the Hill This edition of View from the Hill is proudly sponsored by:

Fergies hope of giving back to organizations and communities in need through the love of sport is being accomplished with the help of sponsors and supporter you. He hopes that with your continued support, the Foundation will develop and continue to help for years to come. For more information regarding the Ferg

Jenkins Foundation, please visit:

www.fergiejenkins.ca

In the USA, mail to:

Te Fergie Jenkins Foundation 165 Portage Rd Lewiston, NY 14092

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