Pink Baseball Bat Breast Cancer

Major League Baseball teams celebrated Mother's Day with special stadium activities, honoring mothers and raising breast cancer awareness. Players and coaches wore pink apparel, used pink bats

Louisville Slugger continues to fight against breast cancer with pink models designed to promote awareness. Louisville Slugger is best known for the pink bats on the MLB field on Mother's Day, with proceeds benefitting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure. They continue their pink bat effort with the newly released October edition, which features

The idea for these special bats came after a Hillerich amp Bradsby subsidiary made pink hockey sticks for a National Hockey League breast cancer awareness campaign in the spring of 2006. Hillerich suggested that baseball try the same idea with pink bats and MLB quickly added them to their 2006 Mother's Day program.

In addition to the pink bats throughout Mother's Day weekend, players can be spotted wearing pink compression sleeves, pink batting gloves, pink footwear, pink wristelbowleg guards and catcher's equipment, all in the name of breast-cancer awareness. On Sunday, the Yankees will retire Derek Jeter's uniform No. 2.

On Mother's Day, Major League Baseball players will be using pink bats to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer. As part of a weeklong campaign the pink breast cancer ribbon behind the logo

In 2006, the company had produced pink hockey sticks for a National Hockey League breast cancer awareness campaign. Hillerich amp Bradsby suggested that baseball try the same idea with pink bats

They're pink to match the color of breast cancer awareness. Players often also wear pink cleats, arm sleeves, wristbands, socks and more. MLB first broke out the pink bats for Mother's Day in

Kevin Millar readies for a pitch using a pink bat on Mother's Day 2007, playing for the Baltimore Orioles against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.. In baseball, pink bats are limited-supply baseball bats manufactured by Louisville Slugger for use by select Major League Baseball players on Mother's Day, first introduced in 2006 in association with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization.

The pink baseball bat is commemorative of the Susan G. Komen breast cancer center. It is a sort of tribute to all of the women who have had or will get breast cancer. Show your support for those in battling breast cancer with these pink bat models available at Baseball Bargains.

The pink Louisville Slugger bats are part of MLB's Mother's Day promotion, quotGoing to Bat Against Breast Cancer,quot which benefits Susan G. Komen for the Cure. More than 250 Major League players have requested pink Louisville Slugger Bats this year. The Charity Collectible Pink Bats feature 100 High Power Laser Engraving, hand rubbed