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Baseball Continues Tradition With Miracle League
Sharks baseball gives back to the community, working with the kids at the Miracle League.
The Nova Southeastern University Sharks baseball team once again gave back to the community by volunteering with the West Pines Miracle League, in what has become one of the squad’s most anticipated annual events.
The Miracle League presents an opportunity to play baseball to disabled children, who would otherwise be unable to participate with their healthy peers. It started in the metropolitan Atlanta area in 1998, and has since grown to 275 organizations across the nation and the globe, with new chapters in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Australia. They serve over 200,000 disabled young people and receive support from 22 Major League Baseball clubs and several current and former players and coaches.
Director of Athletics, Mike Mominey, started the partnership nine years ago, at the time of the program’s inception, when he was head coach.
“I had the great privilege to be involved in the early initiatives alongside the founders of this great local community engagement program,” Mominey said. “I was approached by a local mutual friend, local executives from Joe DiMaggio hospital and council members from the city of Pembroke Pines. These relationships converted into action items in order to receive grant funding to build a baseball facility that would house the program at Rose G. Price Park. This was really the birth of the league and the tipping point to establish this now very popular and well-known community program. From there, the program was publicized and today, every Friday night, there can be up to 50 young boys and girls participating in this wonderful baseball program.”