Charity Hop Fundraising & Baseball Consulting - Charity Wines & Longball Cellars

Longball Cellars from Charity Wines
Objective: After success in the Boston market with Red Sox wines in the summer of 2007, Charity Wines expanded to Baltimore where Orioles Hall of Famers opted to raise money for charity in their community.

Result: Brooks Robinson and Eddie Murray joined other wine baseball icons in an effort that will raise money for charity through wine sales. Wine is being distributed across Baltimore stores and restaurants beginning June, 2007. Expected retail is $18.99.

100% of all player proceeds go directly to the charity of the player's choice. In stores now!

Order Wine Online | Also see: 500 Home Run Club Cellars

View Media Coverage | Baltimore Wine Launch Photo Album

Brooks Robinson with Eddie Murray and their charity wines.

Eddie Murray 504 Cabernet & Brooks Robinson Chardonnay.

Label design by Banchick Illustration.
Still photo credit: Baltimore Orioles.
Action photo credit: Ronald C. Modra.

Brooks Robinson Chardonnay
2006 Paso Robles Chardonnay

Benefiting The Baltimore Community Foundation.

Brooks Robinson is often acclaimed as the greatest defensive third-baseman of all time. For hits he took away, he now regularly gives back. Brooks and his wife Connie established a fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation where he is actively involved in grantmaking to a number of charitable organizations.

To learn more, visit www.bcf.org or call (410) 750-0000.

Label design by Banchick Illustration.
Still photo credit: Baltimore Orioles.

Eddie Murray Cabernet
2006 Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon

Benefiting The Baltimore Community Foundation.

Steady Eddie Murray hit 504 home runs, but he did not stop there. When Eddie Murray entered the Hall of Fame, he established a donor-advised fund at the Baltimore Community Foundation where he is actively involved in grantmaking to a number of charitable organizations including schools for at-risk children.

To learn more, visit www.bcf.org or call (410) 750-0000.

The 500 Home Run Club®, LLC

The 500 Home Run Club is the exclusively authorized, internationally recognized organization founded to celebrate the awe inspiring achievements of the greatest home run hitters in baseball history. A portion of proceeds from sale of this product benefit the 500 Home Run Club.

For more information, please call (800) 676-7282 or visit www.500hrc.com.

In the media...

Television

WBAL News 11 in Baltimore (NBC) -- view in QuickTime | watch on YouTube
WBFF Fox 45 News in Baltimore -- view in QuickTime | watch on YouTube

Magazine

Fortune Magazine -- Pro Baseball Players Uncork The Wine Business (4/02/08)

Newspaper

Baltimore Sun -- A wine to lead off with, and one that cleans up (8/04/08)
Baltimore Sun -- Horse and Orioles (6/08/08)
Baltimore Sun -- O, by the way: Orioles Stars Appear On Wine Labels (2/27/08)
Baltimore Examiner -- For Brooksie and Eddie, 2008 Is A Very Good Year (2/28/08)
Los Angeles Times -- Vintage Players (6/09/08)
Los Angeles Times -- Jerry Crowe's column (3/27/08)
Maryland Daily Record -- Toast Eddie, Brooks with wines (6/10/08)
The Seattle TImes -- Dright Perry's column (3/03/08)
USA Today -- Heads up oenophiles: Brooks & Eddie get into the wine (6/08/08)
USA Today -- Vintage Work From Brooks and Eddie (2/26/08)
Washington Times -- Sports Sunday, by Dan Daly

Radio

ESPN 1240 Maryland -- Brooks Robinson on Shan Shariff Show (6/16/08)
ESPN Virginia -- Brooks Robinson Interview (6/16/08)
WNST Baltimore -- Brooks Robinson Interview (6/16/08)
SportsTalk 980 -- Brooks Robinson on The John Thompson Show (6/16/08)

Player rights used by permission of Brooks Robinson and Eddie Murray. The 500 Home Run Club rights and imagery used by permission of the 500 Home Run Club.