SPJ DC Pro Chapter’s return to having an annual baseball outing to Nats Park
NATS vs. CARDINALS
Take yourself out to a ballgame with SPJ DC Pro, and help support the SDX Foundation of Washington, D.C., journalism scholarship fund at the same time!!
It’s a tradition that has been on hiatus, like a lot of other things, during the COVID-19 pandemic. But let’s see each other in person again, with this outdoor event as a great excuse to get together!
There are 14 tickets reserved for this event — Friday evening game is against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 29 at 7:05 p.m.Be there in the stands watching in return for a donation to the SDX Foundation of Washington, D.C., the education arm of the DC Pro Chapter, which awards scholarships to students enrolled in journalism programs at Washington-area colleges and universities.
TICKET INFO: The tickets are in Section 319, which is along the first baseline, upstairs. Retail price for these tickets is $37 each. Suggested donation is for $25 each.
Former DC Pro Chapter board member and current Acting Treasurer of the SDX Foundation of Washington, D.C., Bill McCloskey — also a Nats fan and season ticket holder — is in charge of this fun event, and the chapter board has thanked him in advance for reviving what had become a summer tradition.
INSTRUCTIONS FROM BILL McCLOSKEY:
1) The ticket purchaser/user must download the MLB Ballpark app to their wireless phone, since paper tickets are a thing of the past.
2) I can then forward the ticket to the user’s phone. These are better seats than I have been able to obtain in the past.
3) Checks should be made out to SDX-DC. They can be mailed to this address:
Bill McCloskey – Treasurer SDX-DC
4709 Overbrook Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20816-3029
Bill McCloskey phone: 301-652-7583
All of the price you pay for your ticket price will be donated directly to SDX-DC’s scholarship fund, to be awarded to undergraduates at local colleges and universities who have expressed a firm intention to make journalism their career upon graduation.
Incidentally, Bill is in the photo below, in the gray T-shirt and matching beard. The photo, in which he is talking to DC Pro Chapter Hall of Fame Committee Chair Steve Taylor, on the right in the red shirt, was taken several years ago at a chapter baseball outing.
Contact McCloskey with questions at bmcclos325@aol.com. Or email DC Pro Chapter Corresponding Secretary Amy Fickling at spjdcchapter@gmail.com.