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Angels honored to join MLB charity auction
- Updated: December 5, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Major League Baseball lost a dear member of its family not too long ago, and all 30 teams, including the Angels, have come together to honor her and build something beautiful and lasting to keep her memory permanent.
On Monday at the Winter Meetings outside Washington, D.C., MLB announced that the proceeds from this year’s “Play Ball” initiative auction will go toward the renovation of a youth baseball field that will be renamed in honor of Shannon Forde, the beloved longtime Mets media relations staffer who passed away from breast cancer in March at the age of 44.
• Angels Baseball Foundation
“Shannon Forde Field will be exactly across where she grew up in Little Ferry, New Jersey,” said Mets vice president of media relations Jay Horwitz.
“It was her parents’ house. It’s the same field she played on with her sister Alicia and her niece when she was a kid. It’s the same field [where] her father Mike coached softball for years and years. It’s the same field which her young kids, Nicki and Kendall, will play for years and years. Nicki is 9 and Kendall is 6, and they probably don’t know what kind of a person her mother was. Hopefully, in years to come, when they …
