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In 1951 the United Cerebral Palsy
National Sports committee launched the
Home Run Baseball Bank Project. Headed
by Grantland Rice, dean of American
sportswriters, and Bob Hall, director
of athletics at Yale university as
co-chairman, the UCP National Sports
committee comprised more than 1,500
sports editors, writers, prominent
figures in the sports world and
sportscasters.
All major and minor league baseball parks had played host to leading
sports figures who had introduced the
idea from coast to coast. Anyone that
wanted to contribute $1.00 or more to
United Palsy, New York (1) NY.,
received one of these baseball banks.
The glass baseball banks, replicas of
regulation major League baseballs, are
equipped with a slot at the top to
receive coins or folded bills, and are
mounted on a black plastic stand. The
front sweet spot reads "Home Run Bank"
with the "CP" logo to the left, and
"United Cerebral Palsy" to the right.
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