ALS Charity Game highlights Boomers exhibition schedule
The Schaumburg Boomers will take on the ALS Chicago North Men’s Senior Baseball League Strikers in a game to support the Les Turner ALS Foundation Friday, May 4, at 6:30 p.m. at Boomers Stadium in the first of a 10-game exhibition schedule for the Boomers.
With 100 percent of the ticket sales going to benefit the Les Turner ALS Foundation, tickets for the Diamond Dare Game May 4 are on sale now for $10 at the Boomers Box Office or by phone at (847) 461-3695.
All other Boomers Exhibition games at Boomers Stadium, with the exception of a special $5 Kids Day Friday, May 11, are open to the public and free.
Since 1977, the Les Turner ALS Foundation has been a leader in research, patient care, and education about Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and other motor neuron diseases.
The foundation serves more than 90 percent of the ALS population in the Chicago area. The foundation is also one of the nation’s largest independent ALS organizations and has raised more than $45 million to fight Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Les Turner, a Chicago area businessman, was diagnosed with ALS in 1976. Frustrated by the lack of information and research on ALS at the time, he and his family and friends started the foundation in 1977, just a year before Les’ death at age 38.
The founders wanted ALS patients and families of the future to have the resources, support, and hope for a cure unavailable to Les. To learn more, visit www.lesturnerals.org.
Other highlights on the Boomers Exhibition Schedule include the “Salvi Showdown,” where the Boomers owners Pat and Lindy Salvi’s other minor league baseball team, the Gary SouthShore RailCats, will challenge the Boomers in a home series May 8 and 9. The Boomers welcome the defending Frontier League Champion Joliet Slammers to Schaumburg Boomers Stadium May 10 and 11, then travel to Joliet for a third exhibition game between the two clubs at Silver Cross Field May 14.
The 2011 exhibition schedule is as follows:
Ÿ Friday, May 4, vs. ALS Chicago North Men’s Senior Baseball League Strikers — 6:30 p.m. at Boomers Stadium.
Ÿ Tuesday, May 8, vs. Gary SouthShore RailCats — 1 p.m. at Boomers Stadium.
Ÿ Wednesday, May 9, at Gary SouthShore RailCats — 2 p.m. at U.S. Steel Yard.
Ÿ Thursday, May 10, vs. Joliet Slammers — 1 p.m. at Boomers Stadium.
Ÿ Friday, May 11, vs. Joliet Slammers — 11 a.m. at Boomers Stadium.
Ÿ Saturday, May 12, at Rockford RiverHawks (DH) — 1 p.m. at RiverHawks Stadium.
Ÿ Sunday, May 13, vs. Rockford RiverHawks — 1 p.m. at Boomers Stadium.
Ÿ Monday, May 14, at Joliet Slammers — 7 p.m. at Silver Cross Field.
Ÿ Tuesday, May 15, at Windy City Thunderbolts — 2 p.m. at Standard Bank Stadium.
The Schaumburg Boomers first official home game of their inaugural season is Friday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m. when Chicago’s newest professional sports franchise takes on the Florence Freedom.
Tickets are on sale now by calling (847) 461-3695 or visiting www.boomersbaseball.com.