CVS Health Baseball Camp brings vets to Fenway Park
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVs Health and the Boston Red Sox helped veterans celebrate Memorial Day a little early this year. The CVS Health Baseball Camp marked its seventh year Thursday, bringing 20 veterans from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Fenway Park in Boston to work with Red Sox hitting coaches one-on-one.
Veterans got batting tips from Red Sox hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez, and were treated to lunch in the stadium, as well as a VIP tour and tickets to the evening’s game against the Texas Rangers courtesy of CVS Health.
“May is Military Appreciation Month so it is a privilege to bring our nation’s heroes to Fenway Park and provide them an exclusive day of skills, activities and entertainment with the Boston Red Sox,” CVS Health VP workforce strategies and chief diversity officer David Casey said. “This event is just one way that CVS Health honors our commitment to the men and women who serve our country, and we’re continually pursuing innovative ways to help the military community on their path to better health.”
Veterans who attended the event were from the Salute Military Golf Association of New England, which works to bring the game of golf to post-9/11 veterans in New England as a form of mental and physical rehabilitation.
“We’re extremely grateful for CVS Health and the Boston Red Sox for continuing this veterans-focused initiative for the seventh season,” SMGA New England operations director Jerry Shanahan, operations director of SMGA New England. “Our veterans couldn’t be more excited to experience Fenway Park like the major league players do, especially since many are lifelong Boston Red Sox Fans. These camps provide a fun, yet fulfilling, expression of gratitude for their sacrifices and, more broadly, honor the service of all veterans in this country.”
Among CVS Health’s other efforts to support military- and veteran-focused causes is charitable support for National Guard, Fisher House, Operation Military Embrace, Operation Homefront, Operation Reinvent and the USO. The company also has worked with nonprofit Golf For All on a series of veterans’ golf clinics.