2022 Baseball for Babies NICU Classic

In October 1998 Jonathan Harold weighed only 2 pounds and 7 ounces after being born 3 months early at Mercy Medical Center in Canton, OH. In 2017, as a senior of Lake High School in Uniontown, OH and a member of National Honor Society, he decided to create an event to give back to the NICU that took care of him.

Since 2017, the original fundraiser continues to expand thanks to Lake High School baseball coach Joe Anderson and members of Lake High School National Honor Society. All proceeds are donated to benefit neonatal care and maternity services.

All proceeds are split between participating hospitals to benefit their Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) and maternity services.

In order to maximize the amount of money being donated & allow more people to participate, we decided to utilize the GiveButter Platform to collect money rather than collecting in person. With that being said, you may notice fees when donating for credit card processing and tips to support the GiveButter Platform. Unfortunately to remove these features it requires additional monthly costs or increases the current fee from 0% to 5%. Donations including tips and fees help maximize the amount of money being donated but can be edited while making your donation if you do not want to cover the fees. Any donation is appreciated!

2022 Event Schedule:


4/29/2022
Perry @ Lake	5:00 PM
Louisville @ Canton McKinley	5:00 PM
Alliance @ Green	5:00 PM
Lisbon @ Minerva	5:00 PM
Copley @ Hudson	7:00 PM

4/30/2022
Lake Center @ East Canton	11:00 AM
Hudson @ Brunswick	11:00 AM
Olmsted Falls @ Parma Normandy	11:00 AM
Holy Name @ Hoover	11:00 AM
Firestone @ Canton McKinley	11:00 AM
Field @ Northwest	11:00 AM
Highland @ Nordonia	12:00 PM
Manchester @ Springfield	12:00 PM
Norton @ Wadsworth	1:00 PM
New Philadelphia @ Revere	1:00 PM
Stow @ Massillon	1:00 PM
St. Ed’s @ Medina	1:00 PM
Hoban @ Jackson	1:00 PM
Berea Midpark @ Boardman	TBD
Cuyahoga Falls @ Glenoak	TBD
Madison @ Benedictine (played at CWRU)	TBD

5/2/2022
Woodridge @ Streetsboro	5:00 PM

5/5/2022
Dover @ Lake	TBD

Event History:

2017

$534

2 Teams

NHS
Jonathan Harold

Hospital
Mercy Medical

2018

$1,137

6 Teams

NHS
Natalie Mizer

Hospital
Mercy Medical

2019

$5,760

18 Teams

NHS
Garrett Obourn,
Nick Miller

Hospitals
Mercy Medical,
Akron Children's

2020

Canceled due to COVID-19

40+ Committed

2021

$6,223.80

34 Teams

Hospitals
Cleveland Clinic Mercy,
Akron Children's

2022

43 Teams,
23 Games

NHS
Logan Brady,
Mason Champagne,
& Adam Lippe

Hospitals
Cleveland Clinic Mercy,
Akron Children's