100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular
The 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular was born in 2004. At the time, Curt Schilling was the newest member of the Boston Red Sox and the decision was made to transform this event into a fundraiser for his Curt's Pitch for ALS program to aid in the fight against Lou Gehrig's disease.

The 100 inning marathon game lasted 101 innings and 33 straight hours. The game was extensively researched by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and confirmed as the longest game ever. By the end of the 5th Annual Game in 2008, more than $425,000 had been raised from the 100 Innings of Baseball Spectacular.
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Ben's Dream Baseball Tournament & BENefit Concert
The Ben's Dream Columbus Day baseball tournament and BENefit concert raised $10,525 to aid the mission to find a cure for Sanfilippo Syndipprome, a rare and fatal inherited genetic disorder. The City of Boston donated the fields, while more the umpires donated their time. Teams consisting of players from across 7 Boston adult leagues played and fundraised. Reebok donated shoes to the Starting 9 players who fundraised the most.

Recording artist and celebrity player for the Ben's Dream White Sox, Ari Hest, put on a sold-out show at Harper's Ferry Saturday evening to raise even more money and awareness.
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Bobby Abreu Day
On July 29, 2008, dozens of PAL children joined New York Yankee star, Bobby Abreu, on a Police Athletic League Play Street in the Bronx for a game of Stickball. Abreu spoke to PAL youngsters about his experiences. Youngsters honored Abreu for his support and contributions to PAL by wearing Abreu's #53 on their PAL t-shirts and presenting Bobby with his own #53 PAL jersey.

Bobby Abreu Day was capped with a check presentation for $33,000 to Bobby Abreu on the field at Yankee Stadium before the evening's game.
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Boston Bruins Charity Auction
The 8th Annual Boston Bruins Charity Auction featured door prizes, raffles and mystery balloons sold by the Boston Bruins Ice Girls, along with exciting silent and live auction items. Proceeds benefited the Boston Bruins Foundation

Charity Hop's Scott Reinold was able to secure one of the first Daisuke Matsuzaka (aka "Dice K") signed baseballs and a pair of Red Sox vs. Yankees tickets at Fenway Park for a game in April 2007. These items were placed into the Bruins Foundation silent auction. Bruins defenseman Aaron Ward was the item's high bidder. Overall, the auction was an overwhelming success, raising almost $150,000 for children's charities.
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Charity Wines
Charity Wines hired Charity Hop to enlist several members of the Boston Red Sox to launch three wine brands in June of 2007 under the Longball Vineyards label. The players themselves didn't get a dime, and proceeds went directly to the charity of the player's choice. Since then, more than $400,000 has been raised and about 30 athletes have been scheduled to release wines in 2008 across professional baseball, football and hockey:

Baseball Partners

• Boston Red Sox '07
  • Manny Ramirez presents Manny Being Merlot — The CHARLEE Program
  • Curt Schilling presents Schilling Schardonnay — Curt's Pitch for ALS
  • Tim Wakefield presents CaberKnuckle — Pitching In For Kids
• Boston Red Sox '08
  • David Ortiz presents Vintage Papi — The David Ortiz Children's Foundation
  • Jason Varitek presents Captain's Cabernet — Pitching In For Kids
  • Kevin Youkilis presents SauvignYoouuk Blanc — Hits for Kids
• Atlanta Braves '08
  • Chipper Jones presents Chipper Chardonnay — The Miracle League
  • Tom Glavine presents Cabernet Glavingnon — CURE Childhood Cancer
  • Brian McCann presents McCann Merlot — The Rally Foundation
• Cincinnati Reds '08
  • Ken Griffey, Jr. presents Junior Cabernet — The Ken Griffey Jr. Family Foundation
  • Barry Larkin presents B-Lark Merlot — Champions Sports Foundation
  • Homer Bailey presents Homer Chardonnay — Outdoors Without Limits
• New York Yankees '08
  • Jorge Posada presents Jorge Cabernet — The Jorge Posada Foundation
  • Bobby Abreu presents Abreu's Finest — Police Athletic League (PAL) of NYC
• New York Mets '08
  • Jose Reyes presents CaberReyes — Major League Baseball Players Trust
  • Johan Santana presents Santana's Select — The Johan Santana Foundation
  • Brian Schneider presents Schneider Schardonnay — The Catching for Kids Foundation
• 500 Home Run Club
  • Ernie Banks presents Ernie Banks 512 Chardonnay — Live Above & Beyond Foundation
  • Mike Schmidt presents Mike Schmidt 548 Zinfandel — The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
  • Eddie Murray presents Eddie Murray 504 Cabernet — The Baltimore Community Foundation
• Baltimore Orioles Legend
  • Brooks Robinson presents Brooks Robinson Chardonnay — The Baltimore Community Foundation

Football Partners

• Miami Dolphins
  • Dan Marino presents Marino Estates, Vintage 13 — The Dan Marino Foundation
• New Orleans Saints (Gridiron Cellars)
  • Drew Brees presents Vintage Brees Chardonnay — The Brees Dream Foundation
  • Bobby Hebert presents Cajun Cannon Cabernet — The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Baltimore Ravens
  • Jonathan Ogden presents Ogden Cabernet — The Jonathan Ogden Foundation

Hockey Partners

• Boston Bruins (Hat Trick Cellars)
  • Cam Neely presents Cambernet -- The Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care
  • Ray Bourque presents Bourque Merlot -- Celebrities for Charity

Charity Hop founders Brett Rudy and Mike Lembo devised this idea initially as a way to hold the baseball wines from Charity Wines. They started a new company, designed the product from scratch using international manufacturers, and managed all sales and marketing initiatives. These glass decanters are a true novelty.
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The figurine received a tremendous national buzz and was featured on ESPN’s “Sportscenter,” “Baseball Tonight,” and “Cold Pizza” as well as in publications such as the Sporting News. Between the two charities, more than 5,000 figurines were sold and $56,400 was raised.
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Lauren's work with charcoal supports the charities of Atlanta Braves players, Chipper Jones, Brian McCann and Tom Glavine. Her art was used for their Charity Wines labels which support The Miracle League, The Rally Foundation and CURE Childhood Cancer.
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Marcus Chimbur Baseball Tournament
The 9-team tourney was hosted by the Massachusetts Independent Baseball League (MIBL) to raise funds for Marcus Chimbur, a 9-year old boy from Brockton who was diagnosed with Leukemia the day before he was to play in his first all-star game. There was also a Homerun Derby, where Red Sox legend Oil Can Boyd pitched.

Charity Hop helped coordinate scheduling, player recruiting and fundraising.
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Charity Hop founder, Brett Rudy, contacted Hansen's Beverage and 700 bottles of jumbo 24-oz Monster Energy Drink were distributed to Boston. All night long, Monster Energy Drink was distributed to fans to give them energy to get through the cold night. The next morning, energized fans purchased their tickets. Boston Red Sox mascot, Wally the Green Monster, also helped commemorate the historic event.
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MTV Made
Charity Hop referred local amateur baseball star, Jonathan Pollard, for MTV's MADE as a "MADE Coach." Pollard's mission was to help Saugus High School's Stephen LaMonica break down sociological and familial stereotypes and transform him from quiet theatre kid into a high school baseball player. For this episode, Jonathan worked with LaMonica, a sophomore student at Saugus High School battling with peer pressures at school and trying to step out of a looming shadow cast by his athletic father.

Charity Hop further was also responsible for generating media interest in the story, as well as for coordinating a private screening party at The Greatest Bar on the April 12, 2008 air date.
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Pittsfield Baseball Weekend
Many also know Wahconah Park from Jim Bouton's book, Foul Ball, which recounts his trying to save the old park. The Boston Men's Baseball League was looking to play at this historic venue while giving back to the community.

Charity Hop arranged a partnership with the Parks & Recreation Department, the Mayor, the Police Chief and Pittsfield Little League. In 2007, the Boston Men's Baseball League will play a 4-team tournament at Wahconah Park. While two teams are playing, players from the other teams will run youth baseball and softball clinics.
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Professional Achievement Spotlighting Sports (PASS)
FSN New England and Junior Achievement developed the Professional Achievement Spotlighting Sports (PASS) Program to provide meaningful instruction to kids about the vast range of achievable careers in the sports and entertainment industries.

Employees from the North Shore Spirit, Brockton Rox, Reebok, Fox Sports Net, New England Revolution, and other sports organizations were coordinated to visit with students and develop a curriculum.
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Rockstar Energy Drink
In 2003, Rockstar was a relatively new player in the energy drink category and was looking to promote its brand. Rockstar wanted to launch a sampling program to its predominantly male 18-34 audience, but did not have the budget for sampling programs in cities all over the country.

Charity Hop launched a promotion where Rockstar would deliver 325 cases of energy drink to Tempe Diablo stadium in Phoenix to the largest baseball tournament in the world. From across the country, 325 teams participated. Each player on each team received a sample. By 2005, Rockstar had a #3 market share. Before the event, Rockstar Energy Drink was a relatively unknown beverage.
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Signs of the Time
Signs of the Time is a 60-minute documentary on the origin of hand signals in baseball scheduled to release Fall 2008. There are several myths in regards to how signals were started, and the film helps to address some of the mysteries that led to umpires giving hand-signals to call plays in the field, base coaches to relay hand signals to players on the field, and catchers to relay hand signals to pitchers.

Charity Hop was hired to provide marketing and public relations support for the film, as well as assist casting a prominent voiceover role. Charity Hop was successful in securing Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss to narrate the film. Further, since one belief is that hand signals were developed to support a deaf ballplayer, Charity Hop is looking to generate support for the hearing-impaired community.
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South End Youth Baseball Camp
In 2002, Charity Hop co-founder Brett Rudy led the Boston Baseball League to host the 1st Annual South End Youth Baseball Camp to improve youth baseball. With few little leagues in the inner-city of Boston, the South End Baseball Program provides 1,000 innercity kids a place to play ball. 100% of funding is from sponsors.

Close to 35 kids aged 8-12 participated in drills and a mini-scrimmage. Players from the Boston Baseball League were on hand to run the clinic. Red Sox' pitching great Luis Tiant also was in attendance.
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For these games, by using one umpire rather than the usual two customarily employed, the $75 fee per game the teams saved in umpire fees (along with some personal donations), brought the fundraising total to around $1,500.

Charity Hop founders helped develop the concept, oversee scheduling and manage fundraising collections.
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The event guest list featured prominent names in the Boston sports community such as Larry Lucchino, Wyc Grousbeck, Charlie Jacobs, Jonathan Kraft – along with players David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Richard Seymour, Jonathan Papelbon, Al Jefferson, Tom Brady and Josh Beckett.

This was not a Charity Hop event, but Charity Hop was in attendance to show support.
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Throw Across Wakefield
This baseball throwing relay has players consecutively throwing a baseball to each other in a chain, eventually crossing a 4-mile loop though Wakefield, Massachusetts.

In 2007, Throw Across Wakefield supported Babe Ruth Baseball. The route initiates at Wakefield High School with throwing continuing around Breakheart Reservation. Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox will be awarding the top fundraisers with a check presentation on the field at Fenway Park before a game, later this summer.
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Winterball Spectacular
Winterball is a freeze-fest fundraiser played in December each year. Participants are required to make a toy donation to play in the game. Since 2001, the Boston Men's Baseball League has teamed with Charity Hop and the U.S. Marines and Toys for Tots.

More than 40 players a year have participated each year in Winterball -- not bad considering an average temperature of 39°.
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