BOSTON RED SOX LEGENDARY ACE BILL MONBOUQUETTE
TO BE SPECIAL GUEST AT 2004 VT WIFFLE BALL TOURNAMENT
The Zambonis "America's Favorite
All-Hockey Band" to Perform Saturday
Jericho,
VT --
The 3rd
Annual Vermont Wiffle Ball Tournament to Benefit the Travis Roy Foundation will be held on August
13-15, 2004 and feature twelve teams from
across New England and New York. For the
first time, games will be played under the
lights at Little Fenway, and guests
will be treated to a concert by
the Zambonis, "North America's
Favorite All-Hockey Band!"
Boston Red Sox
great Bill Monbouquette will be a
special guest at the event. The ace of Red
Sox teams in the early 1960's, Monbouquette
won at least 14 games in four straight
years, peaking in 1963 with a 20-10 mark.
A four-time All-Star, he no-hit the
Chicago White Sox on August 1, 1962,
defeating Early Wynn 1-0, and had a second
no-hit bid foiled by a Zoilo Versalles
home run in September 1964. Previous
special guests at the Vermont Wiffle
Ball Tournament to Benefit the Travis Roy
Foundation have included former Boston Red
Sox legends Bill "The Spaceman" Lee in
2003 and Bernie Carbo in 2002.
Event founder Pat
O'Connor built a small replica of famed Fenway
Park in Jericho, VT for WIFFLE®
ball - complete with the Green Monster -
and it is perhaps the most unique setting
for a Travis Roy Foundation event! After
reading
Eleven Seconds
by Travis Roy, the organizers of this
annual Vermont charity event launched the
tournament in 2002.
TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION:
The Travis Roy Foundation was founded in
1997 to help spinal cord injured individuals purchase adaptive equipment
and to fund spinal cord research. More than one million dollars in grants
has been distributed, and any paraplegic or quadriplegic who has suffered
a spinal cord injury is eligible to apply for an individual grant.
Eligible individuals interested in applying for a Travis Roy Foundation
individual grant can find information about the program online at
www.travisroyfoundation.org. A small Boston-based nonprofit, more than
99 cents of every dollar donated to the Travis Roy Foundation goes
directly to its charitable purposes. The IRS recognizes the Foundation as
a tax-exempt public charity, and contributions are deductible to the
extent provided in the Internal Revenue Code.
For more information on participating in
2004 or to become an event sponsor volunteer,
please contact
Pat O'Connor at
vtinfo@travisroyfoundation.org or (802) 899-3633. For more information
about the Travis Roy Foundation, please visit us online at
www.travisroyfoundation.org.
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