Cape Cod Dad Honors Fallen Son with Second Fundraising Tour of MLB Stadiums in 2025

BOSTON - March 28, 2025 - PRLog -- In 2024, Scott Yelle completed the tour of Major League Baseball stadiums he began with his late son Jackson. At each stop—18 in total--he dropped off a $1000 check for the MLB Nike Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI)program in each city. In April 2025, Scott will start a tour of the first 12 stadiums he and his son visited, making a donation from the Jackson Yelle Foundation at each stop. The first being at Fenway Park in Boston on April 12.

Jackson Yelle, a baseball player at Elon University in North Carolina, was struck by an impaired hit-and-run driver on April 30, 2023. He was 21. That same year, the Yelle family formed the Jackson Yelle Foundation, 501(c)3 non-profit organization, to put good into the world by giving to causes Jackson would care about.

"Jackson had a zest for life and baseball. Helping other young men and women grow through the game he loved is something he would endorse wholeheartedly," said Scott Yelle, a sales and marketing consultant and charter boat skipper from Eastham, Massachusetts. "On April 12, we'll kick off this year's fundraising effort by sponsoring a workshop for Boston's Nike RBI, which is overseen by the Red Sox Foundation. We will also be making a $7,000 donation to the Boston MLB Nike RBI. The Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport will be the main presenter at the workshop. After that, it's a two-month odyssey to visit the stadiums Jackson and I first visited."

The Nike RBI program supports the development of young men and women through baseball and softball. Since its inception, the Nike RBI program has served approximately two million young people. Many Nike RBI alumni have played in MLB, including Jackie Bradley, Jr. (most recently with the Kansas City Royals), Hunter Greene (Cincinnati Reds), Alek Thomas (Arizona Diamondbacks), and Dominic Smith (New York Yankees).

In addition to making a donation via https://jacksonyelle.com/, you can make a check payable to "Jackson Yelle Foundation" and send to Jackson Yelle Family Foundation PO Box 86, North Eastham, MA 02651.

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