Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game June 23, 2007

REEBOK presents the Sixth Annual

2007 REEBOK HEROES CELEBRITY BASEBALL GAME
Benefiting the childrens charities of The Heroes Foundation
and The Mike Modano Foundation

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Celebrity Home Run Derby at 5 p.m.
Reebok Heroes Celebrity Game at 7 p.m.

For those who loved seeing the celebrities play in the All-Star Celebrity Slam Jam, pay attention! This June will account for the summers hottest weekend with the Sixth Annual Reebok Heroes Celebrity Baseball Game! So round up the family for another rollicking, celebrity-filled day of fun when stars get sporty and competitive for a cause Playing Baseball for Kids!

Proceeds will benefit the childrens charities of The Heroes Foundation and The Mike Modano Foundation. Two baseball teams, each made up of 10 celebrity players and 10 amateurs, will play "hard-charging, umpires umping,trash-talking,uniform-wearing, managers managing, base stealing, home run hitting, nine inning, authentic BASEBALL!" The game will feature 60 MPH machine-pitch hardball with much more action and excitement than any sissy celebrity softball game!

The celebrities playing in this year's game (SUBJECT TO CHANGE) are:

• Dallas Stars center Mike Modano
• Dallas Stars’ left wing Brenden Morrow
• Dallas Cowboys safety Roy Williams
• Dallas Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware
• Dallas Mavericks point guard Devin Harris
• Dallas Mavericks swingman Jerry Stackhouse
• Former Chicago White Sox outfielder Ben Grieve
• Former Texas Ranger player Mark McLemore
• NBA All-Star and Los Angeles Clippers forward Elton Brand
• James Lesure (of Las Vegas)
• Bryan Greenberg (of the hot new TV series October Road)
• Dallas-born actor Josh Henderson (Edie’s nephew on Desperate Housewives)
• Brothers Geoff Stults (of TV series October Road and laugh-out-loud movie Wedding Crashers) and George Stults (of Seventh Heaven)
• Mavs owner Mark Cuban
• Brothers Kyle Massey (of That’s So Raven) and Christopher Massey (of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101)
• Evan Jones (of Lucky You and October Road)
• Samuel Page (of TV series Shark)
• Antonio Todd (of Cold Case and Little Big League)

Singing the National Anthem will be Willa Ford (of Dancing With The Stars and star of the upcoming movie Anna Nicole Smith). New this year Wade Boggs, Ben Grieve and Mark McLemore will slug it out with the other celebs during the Home Run Derby at 5 p.m.!

Baseball Hall of Famers Rollie Fingers (1974 World Series MVP for the Oakland A’s, and Cy Young Award winner and former American League MVP in 1981with the Milwaukee Brewers) and Wade Boggs (former third baseman for the Boston Red Sox and five-time American League Batting Champion with 12-straight All-Star appearances) will bring their expertise to the game as each team’s manager. Boggs will manage the Black Sox team, with assistant team managers Bennie Bray, Barry Pechenik and John Carlisle. Fingers will manage the opposing Red Sox team together with assistant managers Bob Sambol, Donnie Nelson and Tommy Guilds.

Tickets are $5, $7, $12 and $15 and are on sale now at Ticketmaster.
Tickets available at 214-373-8000, online at www.Ticketmaster.com
or at the Dr Pepper Ballpark Ticket Office during office hours.
FOR MORE INFORMATION visit www.heroesbaseball.org

The Reebok Heroes Celebrity Weekend will kick-off with the Rock & Roses party featuring a live performance by the Counting Crows on Friday, June 22 at Dallas new music hotspot House of Blues at Victory Park beginning at 8:30 p.m. Contact Lara Beth Seager at 678.432.8510 or [email protected] for individual tickets, ticket packages or sponsorship opportunities.

Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of tmayad.

Official Website: http://www.heroesbaseball.org