DETROIT -- Detroit Tigers MVP slugger Miguel Cabrera will host the 10th annual "Keeping Kids in the Game" event, presented by Delta Air Lines on Monday, July 30 at Comerica Park. Proceeds from the event support children's health and youth baseball programs facilitated by the Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation, the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, the Detroit Tigers Foundation, an affiliate of Ilitch Charities and the Miguel Cabrera Foundation, a charity established by Miguel and Rosangel Cabrera. Tickets for this event are sold out.
The event, the Detroit Tigers Foundation's signature summer fundraiser, features exclusive ballpark and field access, including self-guided tours of the home clubhouse, a VIP Dugout Photo Station and a private firework show. Guests at the event will also be treated to live entertainment, extraordinary auction items (to view and bid on auction items, text the word "Tigers" to 52182) and a strolling dinner, along with beverages and cigars in the MotorCity Casino Hotel Tiger Club and the Lexus Cigar Lounge, presented by Paulson, Clancy & Friends. In addition, an exclusive VIP reception will be held in the Tigers home clubhouse. This is ticketed event and not open to the public.
While patrons and guests are enjoying the event festivities, the Detroit Tigers Foundation will host over 200 patients and family members from Children's Hospital of Michigan and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital for a special night under the lights at Comerica Park. The children and their families will enjoy dinner in the FOX Sports Detroit Brushfire Grill, have access to the playing field, dugouts and clubhouse, as well as enjoy face painters, balloon and temporary tattoo artists, ride the Fly Ball Ferris Wheel and meet special guests, including Tigers mascot PAWS and members of the 2018 Detroit Tigers. The children are invited through their respective Hospital Child Life departments.
The event will be open to media from 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. with access to the Brushfire Grill only. All members of the media who plan to attend must contact Michele Wysocki ([email protected]) in the media relations department in advance of the event. Approved media must enter the ballpark through the administrative lobby on Montcalm Street with authorized credentials. There will be no admittance of media at any other entrance to the ballpark or for those without proper credentials. Media parking will be located in the Tigers Garage.
Event Sponsors Include:
American Manufacturing
America's Choice Insurance Partners
BELFOR
Beringer Wine
Comerica Bank
David Wachler & Sons Jewelers
Delaware North Corporation
Delta Air Lines
Fabulous Events
FOX Sports Detroit
Granite City Food and Brewery
Guernsey Farm Dairy
Innovative Research
ISE Baseball
Johnnie on the Spot Printing & Creative Company
Lear Corporation
Melting Pot of Troy
Midnite Oil Creative
Miller Coors
MotorCity Casino Hotel
Oakley Industries
Patrón Spirits
Paulson, Clancy and Friends
Pepsi
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
Punch Bowl Social
Second Story Interiors
Shutterbooth
Terri's Cakes Detroit
Tobacco Rose Cigars
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