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2nd Annual Autism Speaks Celebrity Softball Game
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Autism Speaks held its 2nd Annual Celebrity Charity Softball Game on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007 at KeySpan Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, raising more than $5,000 in the process. Fans gathered at the stadium, the home of the minor league Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team, as a team from New York TV station CW11 took on team NBC. Team CW 11 defended their title and beat Team NBC 2-0. Among the players on hand to raise money and awareness were 30 Rock's Jack McBrayer and Lonny Ross; former Saturday Night Live cast member Horatio Sanz; The Real World and WWE Smackdown Superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin; actress and VH1 Top 20 Countdown host Alison Becker; Access Hollywood's Tim Vincent; CW11 Morning News reporter Lolita Lopez; Twisted Sister's Dee Snider; Steel Heart's Mili Matijevic; and 8 year NFL veteran and former NY Giants cornerback Jeremy Lincoln.
Jack McBrayer of 30 Rock takes the field
Highlights from the Softball Game
(Windows Media Video, ~3 minutes)
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