Garth Brooks‘ charity Teammates for Kids Foundation recently joined forces with Adam Wainwright’s Big League Impact (assisted by Kyle Gibson) and Major League Baseball to form the Home Plate Project in support of hunger prevention in the 30 major league baseball cities!

Efforts began in August with initial contributions of $900,000, of which $300,000 was donated by players!

Locally, the Miami Marlins Foundation and Feeding South Florida are partnering to create the Miami Marlins Home Plate Meals Food Pantry. The Marlins will build a dry food pantry at a neighborhood Title I school and augment once a month during the school year with a farmer’s market distribution. Martin Prado will join in the physical construction of the food pantry at the school and the mobile food distribution.

The Tampa Bay Rays are supporting the launch of the new school pantry program at Campbell Park Elementary (St. Petersburg), in partnership with Feeding Tampa Bay. The program will serve 655 students for the school year, and Tommy Pham and Charlie Morton took part in a presentation to the nonprofit at the Red Sox vs. Rays game on September 21!

We participated in the Media Conference Call that announced the program, which you can listen to in it’s entirety below.  We asked a question at the 9:30 mark which elicited a great response from Garth himself!

To find out more about the Home Plate Project, please click here!