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Johnny Damon        

Former MLB All Star, World Series Champion with the Boston Red Sox

Devon Rose (1/4/07)...Johnny also has twins, Madeline and Jackson (4/22/99)...graduated from Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Fla. in 1992...was named to the USA Today High School All-American team, and was the Florida Gatorade Player of the Year as a senior...teamed up with Puma to participate in a fundraiser where a percentage of shoes sold resulted in a donation to the tsunami relief fund...co-hosted the "Pitching In For Kids" Charity Golf Tournament in Florida with Tim Wakefield...In 2006, became the Yankees Home Run Captain for the Children's Health Fund (CHF), which brings quality care directly to the nation's most medically disadvantaged children in rural and urban areas...Johnny donates money for each home run the Yankees hit collectively as a team in both the regular and post-season...he is a national spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), which provides programs and services designated to ease the burdens of severely injured service men and women and their families, and aids in the recovery process and smooth the transition back to civilian life...services include benefits counseling, rehabilitation, adaptive sports opportunities and advocacy initiatives...visited children suffering from cancer during the season at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center...Founded the Johnny Damon Foundation in 2006 which assists local and national programs that provide leadership and growth opportunities for disadvantaged children at risk...in November 2006, Johnny hosted his first Johnny Damon Celebrity Golf Classic, raising money for Orlando, Florida area based charities, such as Winnie Palmer Children's Hospital, as well as the WWP...Johnny is the commissioner of the Professional Baseball Gaming League (PBGL), an offseason competition of Major League players facing off in online video games...teamed up with hip hop mogul and commissioner of the Hip Hop Gaming League, Snoop Dogg, in the Battle of the Commissioners, in a match for charity during PBGL Finals weekend in Miami in February 2007.

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