ICYMI Support pours in for 12-year-old Hammonds Plains baseball player who suffered stroke | SaltWire
Satchel Tate, 12, in his hospital room at the IWK Health Centre. Tate, who plays for the Hammonds Plains A's under-13 AA team, suffered a stroke during a baseball tournament in Bridgewater on July 30.Whether it’s major league or little league, baseball in Canada can be a very small community.
“Any sport ,when something happens that’s traumatic to any player, people become one community and want to do things,” said Holly LaPierre, president of Hammonds Plains Minor Baseball. On Friday, Jamie Campbell, host of Blue Jays Central on Sportsnet, got involved. After clearing it with Tate’s family, LaPierre contacted Campbell, who proposed tweeting something about Tate.