Help get a team ready for spring season.
Brian McCollum wants to get his mitts on your mitts. And if you have a baseball to go with them, all the better.
For the second year in a row, McCollum is collecting new and gently used baseball and softball equipment for use by kids who might not have the money to buy their own. This year’s beneficiary of the “Mitts for Kids” drive is the Hunting Park Indians Youth Baseball Program.
“When Hunting Park is open for play this spring, we want to make sure that every child who wants to play baseball has a glove,” said McCollum, owner of McCollum Insurance in Manayunk. “If you have unusued baseball equipment lying around your house, this is the perfect opportunity to give it a new life and help a child.”
McCollum, an avid sports fan and community volunteer, started the “Mitts for Kids”program so that less fortunate kids would have the same opportunity he had as a child to play Little League baseball. Last year’s drive netted over 150 mitts that were sent to youth ball players around the world. McCollum was also named one of Erie Insurance’s 2010 Giving Network Agencies of the Year for his community service work with “Pitch in for Baseball” and his decade-long commitment to the annual MMA Research Ceili for Kayleigh fundraising event.
You can bring your equipment to McCollum Insurance Agency l at 4109 Main Street in Manayunk until March 15, To make arrangements to have your equipment picked up, please call the agency at (215) 508-9000 or visit them online at www.mccolluminsuranceagency.com.