Chicago White Sox

• PLAY HARD has reached a new multiyear partnership agreement with the Chicago White Sox, naming the vibrant, new Chicago-based vodka seltzer brand the new official RTD sponsor of the White Sox.
• "We're thrilled to announce our multiyear partnership with PLAY HARD as the official ready-to-drink sponsor of the Chicago White Sox," explains George McDoniel, White Sox senior director of corporate partnerships and sales.
• PLAY HARD's partnership with the White Sox marks a significant milestone, celebrating Playboy's historic roots in Chicago, PLAY HARD's launch in Illinois and the spirit of baseball.
• "Partnering with the Chicago White Sox offers a truly legendary opportunity to unite two iconic homegrown brands, Playboy and the White Sox.

• CHICAGO, March 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Mark Cohen , hand, wrist and elbow surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, and an official team physician for the Chicago White Sox, wants to warn parents about the epidemic he is seeing in his practice: youth baseball players experiencing overuse injuries in greater numbers.
• "I'm a huge baseball fan and have enjoyed treating professional and youth players for many years," Dr. Cohen explains.
• "Ten years ago, Tommy John surgery was a treatment for Major League Baseball players," explains Dr. Cohen.
• Many players and parents see this as a way to advance to higher levels of baseball.

• The vintage baseball card collection was stored in an old tobacco tin by Ed, a long time Northern California collector.
• The highlight of this amazing baseball card find is the unique variety of vintage Babe Ruth cards and hundreds of rare Hall of Famers.
• The collection has a great selection of century old baseball cards including tobacco, strip and Caramel cards.
• Inside the tin, there are many vintage baseball cards that collectors are always on the hunt for including:

• If you are like the majority of Americans, though, the game is just not on your radar, unless you live in a city with a team that’s still in the running.
• The prodigious slugger is not just baseball’s patron saint, but its savior, returning a holy aura to the scandal-plagued game.
• As a scholar of religion and sports, I have argued that Ruth played another important role by making Americans more comfortable with Catholicism.

Saving a troubled sport

• But the Bambino slugged 29 in 1919, 54 in 1920 and reached the Holy Grail of 60 in 1927.
• He finished his career with 714, breaking Roger Connor’s record of 138.
• Ruth – with his larger-than-life presence, rags-to-riches life story and capacity for hitting home runs galore – was baseball’s salvation.
• Worse, when African American star Henry Aaron reached 715 career home runs in 1974, he received racially motivated death threats.

Carouser and Catholic

• Anti-Catholic sentiment was prevalent in the United States during Ruth’s era, and his proud demonstrations of his Catholic faith helped ameliorate that prejudice.
• It was public knowledge that he attended mass frequently and gave generously to Catholic charities.
• He married in the church twice – the second time after his first, estranged wife died, reflecting Catholic teachings on divorce and remarriage.
• He lived out the Catholic cycle of sin and repentance regularly throughout his life, expanding American society’s awareness of the Catholic value of forgiveness.
• One hundred thousand people lined the route as his coffin was transported to Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.