WBT BEGINS CAMBODIA BASEBALL DONATION DRIVE

World Baseball Today is urging its listeners and readers to join in an effort to help build baseball in Cambodia. Alabama resident Joe Cook, a native Cambodian living in America since escaping the Khmer Rouge regime that murdered over a million Cambodians (including members of his own family), has been operating his Baseball Cambodia non-profit organization in an attempt to bring baseball to his home country of 14 million people.

Cook’s efforts have led to the building of a baseball diamond in the Cambodian town of Baribo, the formation of a Cambodian National Team that competed in the most recent Southeast Asian Games, and an upcoming series against a team from Vietnam in March that will mark the first time Cambodia has ever hosted an international baseball game.

However, donations of money and equipment are very much needed, and no donation is considered too small. World Baseball Today has donated a box of new Rawlings Senior League baseballs that will be used in the Cambodia-Vietnam series next month. Visit the http://www.cambodiabaseball.org/ website for details.