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Dave Roberts Highlights Return of Spinners Hot Stove Dinner, January 11
Team kicks off 10th Anniversary of 2004 World Series Champions with charity dinner
LOWELL, MASS. - The Lowell Spinners, Class-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, announced they will host a Hot Stove Dinner event with 2004 World Series Champion and playoff hero Dave Roberts, Saturday, January 11 at the UMass-Lowell Inn & Conference Center.
This marks the return of the team’s Hot Stove event, a fundraiser for Lowell Spinners Charities, after a two year hiatus.
“We are thrilled to once again offer a Hot Stove event for our great Spinners fans,” said Spinners President and General Manager Tim Bawmann. “To be able to have Dave Roberts as the keynote guest is a great way to start the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Red Sox while also celebrating the 2013 World Series Champion Red Sox.”
In addition to Roberts, the dinner will feature visits from other local baseball alumni, both Spinners alumnus and otherwise. The team will present the Dick Berardino Alumni Award, given annually to a Spinners alumnus, currently in the Major Leagues, that best represents the qualities of productivity, work-ethic and coach-ability, the Peter Gammons Media Award and the Greg Montalbano Award.
New awards to be presented at the event include the The Lowell Sun High School Baseball and Softball Players of the Year and the Jr. Spinners Award, an award created to honor a player in the Spinners partnership Elite Baseball program.
“We have reformatted the dinner during its hiatus to be more of a celebration of baseball, rather than just a celebration of Spinners’ alumni,” said Spinners’ Vice President Jon Goode. “With this is mind we are looking to take a more local focus in some of our awards.”
The dinner will be hosted at the UMass-Lowell Inn & Conference Center, bringing the event back to its original roots. In addition to the dinner and awards presentation, rather than speeches, the event will be formatted as a “question and answer” session. There will also be an autograph session with all of our guests, but live and silent auctions and a Chinese raffle. The event will start with autographs at 6 p.m., with dinner starting at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the event are on sale now at www.LowellSpinners.com and by phone at (978) 459-1702. Tickets are $75, which includes dinner, autographs, a silent and live auction, awards presentation and Q&A sessions with the guests. More guests and award winners will be announced in the coming days.
Date and Time
Saturday Jan 11, 2014
