Grip N' Rip Club News

Andy Katz

<a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=andykatz22"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=andykatz22"></script> <BR> <BR><BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.duquettesports.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/9532/files/dan_duquette_150_px.egg_53a38.png?1266356002' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Feb. 11, 2010--Grip N’ Rip Club Baseball Show</B></FONT><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club hosted over 200 members of the local baseball community and over a dozen baseball companies at Game On!, inside Fenway Park. <BR><BR> The event was run in partnership with<BR> <a href="http://www.duquettesports.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Dan Duquette Sports Academy</a> and <BR><a href="http://www.youkskids.org"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a>. The former GM of the Boston Red Sox answered questions from the crowd. Guests hit in the Fenway Park batting cages. And, members of various youth and amateur leagues took the opportunity to network with each other. <BR><BR> $3775 was raised to send children from Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a> to overnight sports camp this summer. <a href="http://www.northeastprophoto.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?action=viewphotos&size=thumbnails&thumbpagenum=1&eventid=27100&eventstatus=0&categories=no&keywords2=no&groupid=%200&bw=false&sep=false&ckw=false"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[View photos of the event]</a>. <BR> <a href="http://www.baseballjournal.com/news/2010/03/03_localamateur.php"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">New England Baseball Journal Article</a> <BR> <a href="http://bostonsportsu18.com/?p=5131"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Boston Sports U18 Article</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.checkswing.com/group/gripnripclub"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/9532/files/large_checkswing_badge.jpg?1260977213' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 16, 2009</FONT></B><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club will be bringing you select tips and strategy advice from CheckSwing.com- a social network for ballplayers and coaches. Through a special arrangement, ballplayers and coaches from CheckSwing will be featured on our <a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/baseball-tips"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">baseball tips and strategy page.</a> <BR><BR>Anybody can join our <a href="http://www.checkswing.com/group/gripnripclub"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Group on Checkswing</a> to connect with us and other ballplayers and coaches. </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.athletic-evolution.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/athletic_evolution_resize_130.egg_7bce2.jpg?1260065187' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 5, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.athletic-evolution.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Athletic Evolution</B></a> in Woburn will be selling GNR memberships at their front desk starting in mid-December. Those purchasing at AE will be entered to win an autographed Jason Varitek baseball. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Athletic+Evolution,+Woburn,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.489543,77.255859&ie=UTF8&ll=42.506464,-71.13862&spn=0.030435,0.075445&z=14&iwloc=A&iwstate1=dir"target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Directions</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.beaconhillathleticclubs.com/clubs-brighton-center.php"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/BHAC_resize_150.egg_5f3c4.jpg?1259550814' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 3, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.beaconhillathleticclubs.com/clubs-brighton-center.php"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Beacon Hill Athletic Clubs</B></a> in Brighton will be selling GNR memberships at their front desk starting mid-December. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&sll=42.303699,-71.415624&hl=en&gl=us&q=Beacon+Hill+Athletic+Club&ie=UTF8&sspn=0.006295,0.147887&ei=oda4StaXMKiUyQSFyfi0BA&cd=3&usq=Beacon+Hill+Athletic+Club&geocode=FZ8whgIdDTHC-w&cid=10793634987918173967&li=lmd&ll=42.350631,-71.159542&spn=0.007628,0.018454&z=16&iwloc=A&iwstate1=dir"target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Directions</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.985thesportshub.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/sports_hub_resize_100.egg_5a1e9.jpg?1259551372' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 1, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.985thesportshub.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">98.5 The Sports Hub</B></a> is an official sponsor of the Grip N' Rip Club. You will see The Sports Hub logo printed on our membership cards. </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/christophershavengolf.jpg?1261189870' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">September 1, 2009</FONT></B><BR>At the <a href="http://www.chgolfclassic.com/index.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Christopher's Haven Golf Classic</a>, the Grip N’ Rip Club set up shop on the 16th tee and raised over $1000 for <a href="http://www.christophershaven.org/"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Christopher’s Haven</a> through Grip N’ Rip Club membership sales. Special thanks to Adam Waitkevich from Morgan Stanley for organizing the event and Julie Tremblay from Mortgage Dreams LLC for volunteering her time all day at our booth. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gripnripclub?v=photos&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=69389&id=51116573476"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Photos] </a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/BattingForBooks.jpg?1261188352' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">June 18, 2009</FONT></B><BR>The Grip N’ Rip Club worked with <a href="http://www.bedfordbaseballsoftball.com/"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Bedford Babe Ruth</a> to collect books for the Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i> Batting For Books campaign. The campaign was designed to collect 100,000 books for Boston Public Schools, where there is a serious shortage of books in their libraries. <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Press Release] </a> ¦  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gripnripclub?v=photos&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=69389&id=51116573476"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Photos] </a> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/youklogo.gif?1260973301' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <b><FONT SIZE="1">Feb. 18, 2009</FONT></b><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club announces a partnership with <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a> to raise money for children's charities. The Club will make a donation for every member that signs up for the club. <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Press Release]</B></a></TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/GNRlogoresize200.egg_ebbc9.jpg?1261190822' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <b><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 10, 2008</FONT></b><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club launches its <a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/fundraising"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">fundraising program</a> for youth baseball and softball leagues. Every membership sale through a league's custom Grip N' Rip Club web page generates revenue for their program.<BR><a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/testimonials#leagues"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[The Wakefield Babe Ruth experience]</B></a></TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR>

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Grip N' Rip Club News 2010-03-05T21:28:47-05:00 <notextile>  <a class="addthis_button" href="http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=andykatz22"><img src="http://s7.addthis.com/static/btn/v2/lg-share-en.gif" width="125" height="16" alt="Bookmark and Share" style="border:0"/></a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=andykatz22"></script> <BR> <BR><BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.duquettesports.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/9532/files/dan_duquette_150_px.egg_53a38.png?1266356002' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Feb. 11, 2010--Grip N’ Rip Club Baseball Show</B></FONT><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club hosted over 200 members of the local baseball community and over a dozen baseball companies at Game On!, inside Fenway Park. <BR><BR> The event was run in partnership with<BR> <a href="http://www.duquettesports.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Dan Duquette Sports Academy</a> and <BR><a href="http://www.youkskids.org"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a>. The former GM of the Boston Red Sox answered questions from the crowd. Guests hit in the Fenway Park batting cages. And, members of various youth and amateur leagues took the opportunity to network with each other. <BR><BR> $3775 was raised to send children from Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a> to overnight sports camp this summer. <a href="http://www.northeastprophoto.com/mp_client/pictures.asp?action=viewphotos&size=thumbnails&thumbpagenum=1&eventid=27100&eventstatus=0&categories=no&keywords2=no&groupid=%200&bw=false&sep=false&ckw=false"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[View photos of the event]</a>. <BR> <a href="http://www.baseballjournal.com/news/2010/03/03_localamateur.php"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">New England Baseball Journal Article</a> <BR> <a href="http://bostonsportsu18.com/?p=5131"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Boston Sports U18 Article</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.checkswing.com/group/gripnripclub"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/9532/files/large_checkswing_badge.jpg?1260977213' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 16, 2009</FONT></B><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club will be bringing you select tips and strategy advice from CheckSwing.com- a social network for ballplayers and coaches. Through a special arrangement, ballplayers and coaches from CheckSwing will be featured on our <a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/baseball-tips"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">baseball tips and strategy page.</a> <BR><BR>Anybody can join our <a href="http://www.checkswing.com/group/gripnripclub"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Group on Checkswing</a> to connect with us and other ballplayers and coaches. </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.athletic-evolution.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/athletic_evolution_resize_130.egg_7bce2.jpg?1260065187' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 5, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.athletic-evolution.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Athletic Evolution</B></a> in Woburn will be selling GNR memberships at their front desk starting in mid-December. Those purchasing at AE will be entered to win an autographed Jason Varitek baseball. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Athletic+Evolution,+Woburn,+MA&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.489543,77.255859&ie=UTF8&ll=42.506464,-71.13862&spn=0.030435,0.075445&z=14&iwloc=A&iwstate1=dir"target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Directions</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TR> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.beaconhillathleticclubs.com/clubs-brighton-center.php"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/BHAC_resize_150.egg_5f3c4.jpg?1259550814' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 3, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.beaconhillathleticclubs.com/clubs-brighton-center.php"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Beacon Hill Athletic Clubs</B></a> in Brighton will be selling GNR memberships at their front desk starting mid-December. <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&sll=42.303699,-71.415624&hl=en&gl=us&q=Beacon+Hill+Athletic+Club&ie=UTF8&sspn=0.006295,0.147887&ei=oda4StaXMKiUyQSFyfi0BA&cd=3&usq=Beacon+Hill+Athletic+Club&geocode=FZ8whgIdDTHC-w&cid=10793634987918173967&li=lmd&ll=42.350631,-71.159542&spn=0.007628,0.018454&z=16&iwloc=A&iwstate1=dir"target="_blank" style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Directions</a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.985thesportshub.com"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/sports_hub_resize_100.egg_5a1e9.jpg?1259551372' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 1, 2009</FONT><BR><a href="http://www.985thesportshub.com"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">98.5 The Sports Hub</B></a> is an official sponsor of the Grip N' Rip Club. You will see The Sports Hub logo printed on our membership cards. </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/christophershavengolf.jpg?1261189870' alt='' /></a></center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">September 1, 2009</FONT></B><BR>At the <a href="http://www.chgolfclassic.com/index.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Christopher's Haven Golf Classic</a>, the Grip N’ Rip Club set up shop on the 16th tee and raised over $1000 for <a href="http://www.christophershaven.org/"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Christopher’s Haven</a> through Grip N’ Rip Club membership sales. Special thanks to Adam Waitkevich from Morgan Stanley for organizing the event and Julie Tremblay from Mortgage Dreams LLC for volunteering her time all day at our booth. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gripnripclub?v=photos&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=69389&id=51116573476"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Photos] </a> </TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/BattingForBooks.jpg?1261188352' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <B><FONT SIZE="1">June 18, 2009</FONT></B><BR>The Grip N’ Rip Club worked with <a href="http://www.bedfordbaseballsoftball.com/"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Bedford Babe Ruth</a> to collect books for the Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i> Batting For Books campaign. The campaign was designed to collect 100,000 books for Boston Public Schools, where there is a serious shortage of books in their libraries. <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_061809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Press Release] </a> ¦  <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gripnripclub?v=photos&ref=ts#/album.php?aid=69389&id=51116573476"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Photos] </a> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/youklogo.gif?1260973301' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <b><FONT SIZE="1">Feb. 18, 2009</FONT></b><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club announces a partnership with <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">Kevin Youkilis <i>Hits For Kids</i></a> to raise money for children's charities. The Club will make a donation for every member that signs up for the club. <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[Press Release]</B></a></TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> <TABLE width="600" BORDER="0" BORDERCOLOR="BLACK" CELLSPACING="2" CELLPADDING="5"> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <a href="http://www.youkskids.org/html/press_releases_021809.html"target="_blank"> <center><img src='http://static.shopify.com/s/files/1/0021/1792/files/GNRlogoresize200.egg_ebbc9.jpg?1261190822' alt='' /></a> </center> </TD> <TD WIDTH="250" VALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <b><FONT SIZE="1">Dec. 10, 2008</FONT></b><BR>The Grip N' Rip Club launches its <a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/fundraising"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">fundraising program</a> for youth baseball and softball leagues. Every membership sale through a league's custom Grip N' Rip Club web page generates revenue for their program.<BR><a href="http://www.gripnripclub.com/pages/testimonials#leagues"target="_blank"style="font-weight:bold;color:#006cb6;">[The Wakefield Babe Ruth experience]</B></a></TD> </TR> </table> <hr/> <BR> </notextile>