Scenes From Today's Roosevelt Island Project Main Street Tim Sheehy Softball Classic To Benefit Families With ALS Lou Gehrig's Disease
The 6th annual Project Main Street Tim Sheehy Softball Classic to benefit individuals and families battling ALS Lou Gehrig's disease was held today at Roosevelt Island's Capobianco Field.
Between games today, Founding Project Main Street Board Member Michael Rosen
welcomed everybody coming out to support Project Main Street and spoke about
his Roosevelt Island friend Tim Sheehy. Here's a little bit of what Mr Rosen
said and a few plays from the softball game. (Will have more video
tomorrow).
Project Main Street's Special Honoree this year was
Drew "Grandmaster Dee" Carter
from the legendary Hip Hop group
Whodini
who grew up on Roosevelt Island and his mom still lives here. (Will have video
from him too).
This evening, there was a fundraising auction and celebration at The Sanctuary
too.
More info at post yesterday. If you would like to make a donation or seek more information, please visit the Project Main Street website.
UPDATE 10/18 - More from Mike Rosen's welcoming yesterday:
I want to thank everybody for coming out to the Tim Sheehy Classic to benefit Project Main Street.
Project Main Street as most of you know is an ALS charity. We support people living with ALS.
We were founded by Tim Sheehy, a childhood friend of most of ours, a long time Roosevelt Island resident who cared about helping other people at a time when nobody would have felt bad if he was just thinking about himself.
But when Tim was diagnosed with ALS he was concerned with helping other people with ALS even after he was gone. He put together Project Main Street.
The connection to Roosevelt Island is obvious. Most of the founders and the people that have worked on Project Main Street are from Roosevelt Island. The name itself is dedicated to Roosevelt Island. This is a Roosevelt Island-born charity that has helped people since 2006 across the country.
Together this small volunteer organization that Tim Sheehy conceived in his mind has raised over 1.5 million dollars for people. So today we're talking about Project Main Street. We're talking about ALS.
We're also talking about Roosevelt Island because this is what makes this event so special to us. To come out here on the field that we used to play on when we were kids. To see all of our old friends together not just getting together but getting together to do something good for society is so meaningful to us and to have all the new friends that come here that are not from Roosevelt Island but have joined this family and become part of the Roosevelt Island Project Main Street family.
We thank you....
Here's the full video from yesterday's Project Main Street ceremony
and some plays from the softball game.
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