BY KEVIN HARRIMAN
RED SOX ROOKIE PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS TO JOIN RED SOX FOUNDATION AND YOUTHBUILD BOSTON FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
Participants in the 2011 Red Sox Rookie Program will join the Red Sox Foundation and YouthBuild Boston for a day of service at the Early Care and Education Center at Children’s Services of Roxbury. Sponsored by the Red Sox Foundation, the award winning team charity of the Boston Red Sox, the community service program will pair Red Sox Rookies with 25 academically talented, low income sixth grade students from the Red Sox Scholars program to repaint several rooms at the center, create playful wall art, build window boxes and more. The Early Care and Education Center serves roughly 100 inner city children ranging in age from six weeks to six-years-old.
The 2011 Red Sox Rookie Program Participants are (11): pitchers Robert Coello, Stephen Fife, Stolmy Pimentel, Jason Rice, Clevelan Santeliz, Alex Wilson; catchers Tim Federowicz and Ryan Lavarnway; infielders Will Middlebrooks and Oscar Tejeda; and outfielder Juan Linares. Red Sox Scholars, YouthBuild Boston Students and staff.
BY KEVIN HARRIMAN
Boston Sports Desk Publisher
ELEVEN PLAYERS TO PARTICIPATE IN RED SOX 2011 ROOKIE PROGRAM
BOSTON, MA– The Red Sox 2011 Rookie Program will begin January 10, 2011 in Boston. Eleven of Boston’s top prospects will take part in the two-week program, which is designed to expose the players to the expectations of being Major Leaguers for the Red Sox.
Ten of the participants in the Rookie Program spent all of 2010 in the Red Sox organization: pitchers Robert Coello, Stephen Fife, Stolmy Pimentel, Jason Rice, Alex Wilson; catchers Tim Federowicz and Ryan Lavarnway; infielders Will Middlebrooks and Oscar Tejeda; and outfielder Juan Linares. Also taking part will be pitcher Clevelan Santeliz, who was signed as a free agent in December 2010 after playing for the White Sox Triple-A Charlotte club.
The program includes two workouts daily that emphasize conditioning and strength training as well as concentration on fundamentals. In addition, the players are attending a number of seminars that will focus on the assimilation into Major League life off the field and will visit the Dana Faber Cancer Institute to meet with young patients receiving treatments at the Jimmy Fund. They will also participate in a community service project with the Red Sox Foundation at The Children’s Services of Roxbury Day Care facility .
A number of individuals will speak to the group, including President/CEO Larry Lucchino, General Manager Theo Epstein, manager Terry Francona, Major League coaches Dave Magadan and Curt Young, and Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers.
