Max Fried returns to Harvard-Westlake to help | College News
There have been free lattes, cappuccinos and matcha drinks for fogeys. There was a truck stuffed with eye-testing gadgets to help children with imaginative and prescient points or lacking glasses. There have been free gloves, T-shirts and different apparel to hand out to children. There was a food truck offering free burgers and french fries.
There have been autograph signings with one of baseball’s best left-handed pitchers and one of baseball’s best hitters. There was a raffle for Dodgers tickets, gloves and signed balls. There was a batting cage to take swings. There was the Dodgers’ 2021 championship trophy.
The Fried Foundation, Harvard-Westlake and different sponsors outdid themselves Saturday in Encino making an attempt to give 80 members of the Altadena Little League and their mother and father affected by the Eaton fire an afternoon of distraction and luxury at O’Malley Family Field.
Players from Altadena Little League take a look at raffle tickets during an occasion sponsored by the Max Fried Foundation at O’Malley Family Field on Saturday.
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“We saw a need and decided to act,” mentioned Jonathan Fried, the daddy of New York Yankees pitcher Max Fried, a Harvard-Westlake graduate who was taking photographs and signing autographs.
The appreciation was actual, and in addition for mates lastly getting to see one another after weeks of no interplay as a result of of the fire that started Jan. 7.
“Is your house OK?” one boy requested.
“Nah. My mom’s house is gone. My dad’s house is OK,” one other boy responded.
March 1 is meant to be opening day for the league. Final tryouts nonetheless haven’t occurred as a result of the fields are unavailable, however Chris Swan, a board member, mentioned at an emergency assembly of the board, “Everybody was all in to play.”
Max Fried, who performed at Encino Little League, mentioned, “This is nothing to do with me. I’m just helping a community we all grew up in.”
His good pal Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers, the 2018 National League most respected participant, additionally dropped by to signal autographs.
The occasion organizers have been the moms of Harvard-Westlake baseball gamers — Casey Kim, Natasha Tronstein, Monica Kirchner and Donna Tetreault. They have been operating round as their sons performed a winter recreation. They anticipated to feed more than 300 people by the top of the day.
Christian Yelich of the Milwaukee Brewers indicators autographs.
(Eric Sondheimer / Los Angeles Times)
Most important, it was a probability for the youngsters to see one another.
“I kinda of want to see my friends,” mentioned 10-year-old Louis Bradshaw, who has been out of faculty for more than two weeks.
The occasion was stored secret till Saturday so it could be strictly for youths and oldsters.
“The kids are happy. That’s the most important thing,” Kirchner mentioned.
This is a day by day take a look at the optimistic happenings in high faculty sports activities. To submit any information, please e mail eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.
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