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Braves give back in Forde’s memory
- Updated: December 6, 2016
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — As Major League Baseball honors former Mets staffer Shannon Forde’s memory with its annual Play Ball auction initiative, Braves media relations senior coordinator Jonathan Kerber fondly remembers how Forde made him feel welcome during his earliest days within his current profession.
“I was brought in as seasonal help, and she treated me like I was a full-time employee,” Kerber said. “The first day I got there, she told me I was part of the group and they weren’t going to call me an intern or anything like that. That’s how she was. She loved her kids more than anything, and she treated everybody like you were her kid.”
Players, media members and executives who had the pleasure of knowing Forde were deeply saddened in March, when she succumbed to breast cancer at 44 years old. The beloved former member of the Mets’ public relation staff left behind 8-year-old son Nick and 6-year-old daughter Kendall.
This year’s MLB’s “Play Ball” auction initiative will …
