2019 Pitch & Hit Club 73rd Annual Awards Banquet

The Pitch & Hit Club is pleased to announce Ken "Hawk" Harrelson will be inducted into our Lou Boudreau Hall-of-Fame at our 73rd Annual Awards Banquet.

Harrelson played for four teams: the Kansas City Athletics, Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians.

Ken Harrelson, Red Sox The highlight of his playing career was 1967 when the Red Sox brought him in to replace the injured Tony Conigliaro and he helped the team win the pennant. They lost the World Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals. The following year he had his finest season making the American League All-Star team and leading the league with 109 RBI's.

Ken Hawk Harrelson In his nine-season career he slammed 131 home runs and 421 RBI's.

Hawk began his broadcasting career in 1975 with the Red Sox. He served as the White Sox announcer from 1982-85, and briefly left the booth to become GM in 1986. During the 1987-88 seasons he was play-by-play man for the New York Yankees. He returned to the White Sox in 1990.

BANQUET TICKETS

This years banquet will be held at the Tinley Park Convention Center. Tickets can be purchased at our website with a credit card, pitchandhitclub.com. Tickets are $75 per person or a table of ten for $750.00.

Tickets can be purchased using the online form below.
Questions? Please contact Bill Motluck at motluckw@sbcglobal.net or call (708) 805-1928.

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Banquet Ticket - Non-Member: $100 each

Banquet Ticket - Table of 10: $750 per table

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November Meeting at Slammer's Baseball Academy

The Pitch and Hit Club wants to give a big shout-out and thank you to the Slammers Baseball Training Academy for hosting our November 3rd meeting on Saturday morning in Lake Forest. Our thanks for the talks from Neal Cotts, Gary Bennett, and Ed Tolzien (all pictured). We hope to come back and make this a regular thing and appreciate the support.

Membership

With the baseball season over, it's time to remind you to send in your 2018 dues for the Pitch and Hit Club. DUES HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO $25.00. Whether you are currently an active member or a past member who has been inactive, we encourage you to become a part of the club. Click here to renew your membership.

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE PITCH & HIT CLUB HAS EXPANDED ITS MEMBERSHIP FORMAT & FEE?

When the Pitch and Hit Club was organized 75 years back, the area scouts stepped up in order to stay in touch with one another and then honor their scouting accomplishments. Soon the club added members of the front offices adding professional members from each the white sox and cubs organizations. Over the 75 years change has occurred in how each major league team has evolved with their scouting staffs. A few years ago we thought it might be a good idea to bring in some newer and innovative faces (both men and women) where we expanded our look to include the local college and high school coaches (former and present day) along with the professional staff's of the Chicagoland affiliated and independent baseball organizations, some members that are professional baseball agents and even some former and current minor and major league ball players.

Yes, things have changed, but for the good. It is time to join or re-join and see what the Pitch and Hit Club of Chicagoland is doing to day for baseball in the area.

Please note that this is far from the "good ole boys club.....It is an organization of hardworking people that want to keep the game growing and our organization growing in many beneficial ways to pass this along in the future.

With strong membership over the past few years, we have been fortunate enough to accomplish these things (a few areas are listed below) :

College Scholarships
Showcases for local high school player for a multitude of professional scouts.
Donations to MLB Scouts association
Donations to White Sox Charities
Donations to Cubs Care
Donations to Grandkids (part of the Curtis Granderson Foundation)
Donations to the Chicago Food Depository

In addition to all this we lowered our yearly membership fee to $25.00 where we usually have at least 6-7 meetings a year and we serve a light meal beforehand. Honestly our fee is a steal. It is time that we share this with our friends on Facebook, Snapchat, and other social media outlets

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR OUR MEMBERSHIP FORM WHICH IS EASY TO COMPLETE.

BE PART OF A TRADTION RICH ORGANIZATION
75 YEARS STRONG & GROWING.

Meeting Schedule

Please note meetings are held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month. Please check the meetings tab for updates and more information.

Meetings start at 6:30 with a light meal followed by club business and a guest speaker.

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The mission of the Pitch & Hit Club of Chicago is to expand, develop and promote the great game of baseball at all levels. We are particularly interested in reaching out to the youth of our communities to increase involvement in baseball here in the Chicagoland area. We continue our 7 decade tradition of honoring the people who have given so much to the game from the youth and amateur levels all the way to the major leagues! Our upcoming annual awards dinner in January 2017 will be our 71st event honoring true baseball heroes!

Thanks to the hard work of our Board and Club Members along with the support of the community, we are able to continue our time honored commitments, donating a portion of our dinner proceeds to numerous great baseball-related causes such as The Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation, Cubs Charities, White Sox Charities, Joe Maddon's Respect 90 Foundation, and the Grand-kids Foundation (Curtis Granderson). As club president, I pledge to continue the good work done by previous presidents and club members dating back to our club's inception in 1942.