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Mariners auctioning trio of unique opportunities
- Updated: December 5, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Major League Baseball has turned its desire to fight cancer into an annual “Play Ball” auction at the Winter Meetings, and this year’s event carries a more personal mission.
Funds from this year’s auction will support the renovation of a youth baseball and softball field that will be named after former Mets senior director of media relations Shannon Forde, who died of breast cancer earlier this year at the age of 44. Improvements to the field, which is located in Forde’s hometown of Little Ferry, N.J., will include dugouts with protective fencing, bleachers, and a scoreboard.
“The group of Major League Baseball PR people is a small fraternity, so losing someone out of that group hits very close to home for all of us,” said Mariners senior director of baseball information Tim Hevly. “Shannon was the type of person, and professional, who was best friends with everyone — her players, managers and all of us who got to know her over her career.
“With that in mind this auction, as it was last year when we honored Monica Barlow [of the Orioles], is really personal …
