BLUE for Pink - Umpires Against Breast Cancer Campaign

Fewer than one in five eligible women get the lifesaving breast cancer screening and treatment they need although with mammography, it can be found early when the chances of surviving it are high.

After receiving our first shipment of pink umpire shirts last week and getting our ducks in a row with a campaign logo and with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, we have officially launched our "BLUE for Pink - Umpires Against Breast Cancer" education and fundraising campaign.

As part of this campaign, we, along with Dalco Athletic, will donate $3 for every pink referee shirt you purchase to Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Our goal from the sale of these shirts and our pink umpire whistles are that we will raise $5,000 from now through 2011.
View all pink products here.

Thanks to our Facebook fans for helping in designing our logo and for coming up with our shirt's trim patterns (especially Brandon Barelmann). That process was a lot of fun.

Thanks, of course, to Dalco as well, who manufactured the shirt, and Mike Carter of Dalco who was very agreeable to the design as well as the charity initiative.

Show your support as an Umpire Against Breast Cancer, Komen for the Cure and breast cancer education, screening, and treatment programs of which 75% will go to local and 25% to national efforts. Help us spread the word with your officiating or umpiring crew or association. There is a printable and/or sendable press release here.

A special word to female umpires: help reduce your risk of having breast cancer with regular physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and limiting the amount of alcohol you drink. If you over 40, be sure to get a yearly mammogram.

All umpires, encourage all the important women 40 and over in your life to get yearly mammograms.