Following a day game against the Chicago White Sox on the South Side, Oakland Athletics shortstop Adam Rosales returned to Park Ridge to play a game with Park Ridge Baseball/Softball players on June 24.
Rosales, a Maine South graduate who played in the PRBS league growing up, stayed until after 9:30 p.m. to sign autographs and take pictures, according to an email from the league.
The event was part of Rosales’ charity, Sandlot Nation, which he started last year.
“I’ve always wanted to give back to the game of baseball, and the sandlot games when we were kids were really important to me,” Rosales was quoted as saying in a story on MLB.com. “I know how important it is to these young players to help mentor these young kids, and help them appreciate the purity of baseball.”
His charity had hosted about a dozen events by early June, according to the MLB.com story.
Rosales, who debuted in the Major Leagues in 2008, had a .233 batting average and a .618 on-base plus slugging percentage in 193 at-bats this season through Sunday. He also has a .965 fielding percentage in 55 games at shortstop.
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