An Early Stretch to Focus on Cancer
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Major League Baseball will announce today that in its effort to raise awareness of prostate cancer, all traditional seventh-inning activities scheduled for Father’s Day will instead be done during the sixth inning, symbolizing the fact that one in every six American men will ultimately develop prostate cancer. . . .

All sixth-inning stretches Sunday will include a public-service announcement encouraging fans to be tested for prostate cancer and to make family and friends aware of the disease. . . .

To mark the occasion, most players will wear blue wristbands. A blue-ribbon logo will be displayed on the uniforms of coaches, managers, umpires, ball boys and girls, and grounds crew members. . . .

Gillette, which is sponsoring the event, will donate $10,000 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation for each home run hit by any player batting sixth in the lineup during his first turn at bat Sunday. . . . Major League Baseball Charities [have] donated $50,000 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation and that the public could go to the Web site prostatecancerfoundation.org to make donations.
Source: An Early Stretch to Focus on Cancer – New York Times. June 15, 2006