Buc home runs to benefit city parks - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Every time a Pittsburgh Pirates batter hits a home run, a city park gets a tree.Too bad the kids don't get a coach rather than an obstacle for their play spaces and fields.
That's the idea behind a partnership announced today between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.
By the way, I'm anti trees when it comes to putting them in open spaces, such as on the practice field next to the moved Schenley High School, where the soccer and baseball teams could have practiced prior.
It is crazy how the Pgh Parks Conservancy fixes up a lot next to a park on two sides but chooses to do nothing within the park itself.
These are RAD parks too. The RAD parks have lots of money.
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By The Tribune-Review
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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Every time a Pittsburgh Pirates batter hits a home run, a city park gets a tree.
That's the idea behind a partnership announced today between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.
For every home run hit by a Pirates player at PNC Park this season, the team will make a donation to the conservancy for the purchase of a tree native to Western Pennsylvania. The trees will be planted in Schenley, Riverview, Frick and Highland parks. The conservancy will maintain the health of the home-run trees.
"We are thrilled with this opportunity to work with the Pirates by planting trees to promote a healthy park and city," Meg Cheever, president and CEO of the conservancy, said in a news release. "Now, in addition to fireworks each time a Pirate home run is hit, fans can also cheer the fact that Pittsburgh just got a little bit greener with the addition of a new tree."
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