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FMBA Presents former Major League All Star and 1993 World Series Champion,
Tony Fernandez

Sunday, June 24, 2012
Meet and Greet - 4:30pm
Dinner - 5:00pm
Kingswood Lodge

Former MLB All-Star Jason Dickson confirms his attendance 

FMBA's President and Executive Director of FMBA Camps, Paul Hornibrook,  announced today that All-Star shortstop and 1993 World Series Champion, Tony Fernandez  will be the headline coach at this year's June 2012 baseball camp for kids ages 8-14.  Tony won the World Series with the Toronto Blue Jays and was a four time Gold Glove award winner during his 17 year Major League career.  The Camp week will also be highlighted with a fund raising and camp kickoff dinner on June 24th at Kingswood Lodge.  Funds raised at the dinner will help support the TFFoundation, a foundation started by Tony to help underpriviledge kids in Dominican Republic, US and Canada.  "We are thrilled that Tony accepted our offer to come, we had such a great camp last year with coach Bill Swanson from Little League International and former Major League pitcher Jason Dickson, this just keeps the momentum going that we can have a high quality camp and teach the kids all aspects of baseball, sportsmanship and lifeskills," says Paul Hornibrook, "I know Paul Hodgson, former Blue Jay teammate, sent a few e-mails to Tony letting him know about our camp and Paul gave us a lot of creditbility."  Jason Dickson, former Major League All-Star pitcher will also attend camp again in 2012 and provide some great technical coaching for the kids.  The camp will also have NCAA Division 1 Coach Dwight Hornibrook as the speed, agility and conditioning coach for the week. 

                                                                  JASON DICKSON                       DWIGHT HORNIBROOK

Matt Stairs will be in Fredericton to do an autograph session Saturday November 19th from 1pm to 3pm at the Exhibition Grounds and is the special guest at the Annual Fredericton Sports Investment Dinner December 3rd.

The event is to support the local SPCA and Matt will be offering signed baseballs for a $5 donation to the SPCA and raffle tickets on the Matt Stairs collectables will be available for $2 each with $1 on each ticket going to the SPCA.  This will be the first autograph session in Fredericton since our hometown hero retired from 19 years of Major League Baseball. 

We encourage all FMBA players, parents and the general public to feel free to attend.

Also, Matt will be the special guest at this year's 31st Annual FSI dinner and auction held at the Aitken Centre on Dec 3rd.  The event begins at 3pm with a silent auction, dinner at 5pm, 6pm Matt Stairs and 6:30pm live auction.  Must be 19 years of age and over.  Tickets are $75.00 each. 

Matt Stairs, Margot Bird, Executive Director with the Fredericton SPCA and FMBA President Paul Hornibrook take a moment to pose for a photo at Saturday's autograph session at the annual SPCA Pet Expo held over the weekend at the Exhibition grounds.  Matt was in town to help the SPCA raise funds for the organization and support FMBA.  

The objective of KidSport NB is to assist children of families facing financial obstacles to participate in community sport programs. The KidSport goal is to provide these children with the opportunity to achieve physical, social, intellectual and moral development through participation in sport.

It is administered by Sport New Brunswick, a volunteer non-profit organization.

For more information, please visit KidSport™ New Brunswick website.

The Canadian Tire JumpStart program is specifically focusing on helping individual children become involved in organized sports and recreational activities to help them develop a healthier lifestyle in their younger years. The program assists financially disadvantaged families in getting their individual children aged 4-18 involved in sports and recreation programs.

For more information, please visit The Canadian Tire JumpStart website.