Sam Greenberg had a vision of diamonds and a match made in heaven.
And we saw firsthand in Detroit that baseball has a welcomed place in the efforts to enhance and improve the lives of people and families living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Sam is the founder and CEO of Mission Stadiums for Multiple Sclerosis (MS4MS), a non-profit organization committed to hosting events nationwide to increase MS awareness and raise money to support research at top MS research centers.
It was on Dec. 13, 2018, that Sam first reached out to us on Instagram to let us know how much we inspired him and invited us to share our story on the MS4MS blog. It turns out we were equally as moved by his story.
He was a senior at Southern Connecticut State University in 2011 when he led off with the MS4MS idea, inspired by his grandmother who lived with MS most of her life before she passed away in 1986.
In his quest to host events at more professional baseball stadiums, Sam set his sights this year on Comerica Park, home of our beloved Detroit Tigers. Of course we would love to participate!
We, and nearly 60 other MS warriors from Michigan, got way more than we ever could have imagined. Check out the highlights of our experiences and see:
• Why MS4MS is such an important organization for the MS community
• The ways you can get involved in supporting MS4MS
• And how these words from the movie Field of Dreams (as said by James Earl Jones’ character Terrence Mann) still ring true today, “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.”
Catch our Facebook Live interview with Sam
Listen to our A Couple Takes on MS episode about MS4MS