David Ortiz motivated to do work to help children

SANTO DOMINGO. - A good day in Boston, after finished the season, David Ortiz rose and as usual ignited the computer to read the digital edition of Dominican newspapers.

• Within the compendium of the news there was one it called plus his attention and it gave account of which young Dominican they were dying of hidrocefalia by lack of a valve whose cost goes up to around the thousand dollars.

The “Big Papi” reflected and thought that it had to enter the scene and to do something to benefit of the Unit of Hidrocefalia of the infantile hospital Robert Reid Cabral and of the Infantile Maternal Welfare Center San Lorenzo of the Mine.

• “I must do something”, Ortiz said itself and began to give form to the project to organize a beneficial game of softbol in which the main Dominican players of Great Leagues, excellent athletes of other sports participate and artists, mainly.

“We are going to create a game of softbol, so that many of us we donate something and we collect bottoms to see as we ended that, because the children are the future of the country and is laborious to see them die by so not much”, meant in visit made yesterday to this newspaper, where its presence caused commotion.

First contributions

• By suddenly, Alex Rodriguez and Albert Pujols already called to say to him that they wish to make a donation significant,

The party will be made the 30 of December in the Quisqueya stage, a date that it will disable that stellar players of the United States, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, with which it has good relations, can participate in this first edition of he himself.

“This year we are going it to organize with local people because I know that people are a date difficult to travel it. Idea was one that arose to me after the season”, clarified the popular designated batter of the Red Averages of Boston.

“If it had planned it before, at the outset or in the middle of the season, it had more time to make the things as it wanted”, it pointed Ortiz, who comes from a humble home and passed his childhood and adolescence between the Espaillat district and the locality of Haina.

It added: “of a day for another one it raised the idea to him to the cronista Leo Lopez, who very is excited with the welcome that has had the same one.

• “If it is well, as one waits for, I plan another date that people can come, invite celebrities and every year try to make it greater in order collect more money for that childhood that as much needs it”, expressed. Article by Freddy Tapia from Listin Diario, 11/29/06, google translation

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