Giants help out in Haiti
Tim Lincecum is helping out Haiti
Whose heart has not been tugged by the images of devastation and desperation coming from Haiti this past week? I’m glad to see the Giants doing something — raising money through auctioning off a hitting lesson with Pablo Sandoval and Hensley Meulens, a batting session against a Giant starting pitcher, and a chance to hang with Tim Lincecum.
While Pablo is getting the highest price right now, I’m tempted to pony up $1,600 for a pre-game chat with Timmy. It includes four field seats and four autographed balls – and it all goes to Haiti! Only five more days left for bidding.
I learned about the auction over at the blog for The Baseball Codes, a book coming out this spring from my buddy Jason Turbow. The full title is “The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America’s Pastime,” and it’s a rollicking good read, with scores of colorful stories that help illuminate the secret world of baseball.
On the blog, Jason’s collaborator Michael Duca writes: 
I have always been fascinated by the fact that the island of Hispaniola includes the Dominican Republic, where nearly all major league shortstops are born; and Haiti, the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to throw off the chains of slavery, but a nation that has never produced a single major league baseball player.
Looking at Baseball Almanac, that astonishing fact appears to be true.
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