BOCA RATON – Boca Raton Regional Hospital will be hitting a home-run as West Boca Youth Baseball League holds its Third Annual Pink Ball event Saturday, May 12 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the South County Regional Park baseball fields in West Boca Raton.
“This year’s event is in honor of Mother’s Day,” said Michelle Stallone, mammography technologist at the Women’s Health & Wellness Institute, league participant, event founder and organizer. “Major League Baseball players wear pink on Mother’s day and that is how I originally came up with the idea. We plan to do the same with 600 kids by raising money for breast cancer.”
Proceeds from the event will benefit the Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute at Boca Raton Regional Hospital for women in need of a mammogram or breast ultrasound but lack health insurance. Players will don pink T-shirts and wristbands, as well as using pink bats and softballs, to show support of breast cancer awareness.
Two teams from the Women’s Institute will be playing. The event is being dedicated to Maria Valasquez, MD, radiologist at Boca Regional, who is a breast cancer survivor.
The Boca Raton Regional Hospital Kathryn Krickstein Pressel MammoVan will be at the Pink Ball event providing mammograms from 10 am to 2 pm. Other event highlights include the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office pink patrol car, a DJ, bake sales and raffles with prizes.
“Last year the event raised over $20,000,” said Michelle. “We’re hoping to exceed those proceeds this year.”