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This site is designed to promote and provide information on The Last Baseball Town, the book that celebrates a century of Campbell baseball excellence, and to provide a informational clearinghouse for Campbell youth baseball alumni. Please check back often.

 

MONEY FROM HERITAGE FUND TO BE DONATED TO SAM CALLAHAN FUND

A $1,000 donation from the Campbell Baseball Heritage Fund will be made to the Sam Foundation in honor of Sam Callahan, a 14-year-old Campbell resident and Campbell Pony League player who was diagnosed with Ewing Sarcoma in September. Ewing Sarcoma is a rare and very virulent bone and soft-tissue cancer that most often attacks teens and young adults. The Sam Foundation is affiliated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, where Sam has been undergoing treatment, and is working to expand treatment options and eventually find a cure.

For more information on the Sam Foundation, Ewing Sarcoma, and Sam's courageous ongoing battle against the disease, visit www.samsteam.org.

The Campbell Baseball Heritage Fund was created as an effort to benefit the Campbell youth baseball community, both past and present, and while its primary purpose is to bring about and maintain a permament Campbell Baseball Hall of Fame, it will continue to be involved in efforts such as this.

WHERE TO FIND THE LAST BASEBALL TOWN

For those of you who want to buy The Last Baseball Town, my book about Campbell's baseball heritage, you can do so at Recycle Bookstore West at 275 E. Campbell Avenue in downtown Campbell. The book also can be purchased online, using this link: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Baseball-Town-unprecedented-unduplicated/dp/1439234442/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271051007&sr=8-1

 

Jeff Mitchell Memorial

All of the royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to a trust fund to assist Jeff’s wife Crystal and their son Jake.

Jeff Mitchell, who began his baseball career in Campbell Little League, was an All-West Valley Athletic League outfielder in 1986 as a senior at Westmont High School, where he helped the Warriors win a league championship. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, and then joined the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office as a deputy. He was killed in the line of duty in October 2006.

To honor Jeff, Westmont High in 2007 began conducting a Jeff Mitchell Memorial Alumni Game, the 2009 renewal of which will be played Saturday, May 2 at 2 p.m. at the Westmont baseball diamond. Proceeds from that event will go toward the creation of a scholarship for a Westmont senior baseball player who best exemplifies Jeff’s qualities. The school is located at 4805 Westmont Avenue, Campbell CA 95008. The remaining proceeds will go toward construction of a new Little League facility in El Dorado Hills, where Jeff’s wife Crystal and their 8-year-old son Jake reside. For more information, log on to www.jeffmitchellfield.com.

Additionally, all royalties from the sale of The Last Baseball Town will be donated directly to a trust fund set up to assist Jeff’s wife and son.

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