Attorney General Van Hollen to Throw Out First Pitch at Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Game

750 Badges for Baseball program participants to be the guests of the Milwaukee Brewers

MADISON - Through a generous gift from the Milwaukee Brewers Community Foundation, Badges for Baseball participants will be guests of the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park for their Thursday, July 8, 2010 game versus the San Francisco Giants. This event will highlight the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation's Badges for Baseball program in the Milwaukee and Fox Valley areas. As a part of pre-game ceremonies, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, a Badges for Baseball Program partner, has been invited to throw out the traditional first pitch.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen
Badges for Baseball Participants
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Game start:  1:10 p.m.
Miller Park
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Badges for Baseball is a program that was brought to Wisconsin last year and is a partnership between Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and the Cal Ripken Senior Foundation. In the first year, the program provided between 700 and 800 young children in Milwaukee the opportunity to build character and learn life's critical lessons while being mentored by public safety officials in each of the police districts throughout the City of Milwaukee. After the initial success of 2009, the program expanded to include young children in the Fox Valley area.

More details will be available the week of the July 8 game.