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Tampa Bay Rays, local credit union partner for charities

Starting in May, every hit the team gets means $78 for nonprofits around the area.


  • By Louis Llovio
  • | 5:00 p.m. April 19, 2023
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The Tampa Bay Rays may have one of the smallest payrolls in Major League Baseball, but a new deal means its players will be able to raise a bunch of money for local charities.

The agreement isn’t with the players association or the league, though. It’s with Suncoast Credit Union.

The local credit union announced a partnership with the team Wednesday where it will give money to local charities every time a player gets a base hit or hits a home run. That means Suncoast will set aside $78 for every single, double, triple and home run and hand that money over at the end of the month.

 


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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.

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