Georgetown University Head Baseball Coach Pete Wilk announced today that former Major League Baseball Player and Hall of Fame member Dave Winfield will serve as the keynote speaker for the Eighth Annual First Pitch Dinner, being held on campus.

The University of Minnesota, in recognizing the 40th anniversary, brings back former teammates, staff and managers from the champion 71-72 basketball season back to Williams arena.

Chicago Ideas Week (CIW), Chicago, October 10-16th, created by Groupon Co-Founder Brad Keywell, is an annual, weeklong initiative bringing together globally recognized visionaries to speak on a variety of critical issues, social topics, and breakthrough concepts.

When he talked with a boy's parents after a Major League Baseball Game in the 1970's, budding star Dave Winfield realized his power off the field. "I'll never forget what the father told me that night. He said, My son wants to grow up and be just like you.

Ten years ago this summer, in 2001, Dave Winfield was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on his first ballot. Winfield amassed 3,110 hits in a 22-year major league career, hitting 465 home runs, driving in 1,833 runs and earning 12 All-Star selections. The seven-time Gold Glove Award winner was a key contributor for the 1992 World Series champion Toronto Blue Jays, playing alongside 2011 Hall of Fame inductee Roberto Alomar on a team assembled by general manager Pat Gillick, also a 2011 Hall of Fame inductee. Winfield also played briefly with the third member of the Hall of Fame’s Class of ’11, Bert Blyleven, when both were members of the California Angels."

Any baseball player who makes the Hall of Fame does so because of talent and sweat. Some also rely on adaptability. Few ballplayers exemplify that more than Dave Winfield.

Many scores and years after Lincoln abolished slavery, African-Americans still couldn’t do a lot of things and go a lot of places where white people worked, dined, resided and played. They could go to war. But they couldn’t play major league baseball.

Dave Winfield, former MVP of the 1973 College World Series, who went on to have a 22-year Hall of Fame baseball career with many teams including the Padres, Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays, was the primary speaker along with Dennie Poppe, VP Baseball and Football for the NCAA. Before a crowd of 22,000 and the final 8 teams of the baseball season including Texas,Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, North Carolina, California, Virginia and Florida, Winfield provided some words of wisdom for all those who are following the same path as he did.

College World Series (CWS) Legends Team member and Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield and GRAMMY®-winning recording artist Martina McBride headline the activities during the 2011 NCAA® Men’s College World Series® Opening Ceremonies on June 17 at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. The event, starting at 8:30 p.m., will highlight a full day of free activities including team practices, autograph sessions, the NCAA Fan Fest presented by Capital One and a fireworks spectacular.

Whether it's access to ball fields, the expense of equipment or opportunities in other sports, fewer African Americans are playing baseball today than in previous decades.

Dave Winfield continues his dedication to college baseball by keynoting fundraising efforts throughout the country. In February he will team up with coaches Bill Kinneberg at University of Utah for their annual fundraising campaign, and with John Anderson at University of Minnesota (Winfield's alma mater) to help bolster their fundraising efforts for the new Dick Siebert Field.

The Virginia baseball team held it's 8th annual "Step Up To The Plate" fundraiser in John Paul Jones Arena for the first time Friday night. A sold-out crowd was on hand to see Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield as the event's guest speaker.

Arline V. Allison was a lady that any of you would've wanted to know. Standing only 5' 1," her smile would light up a room and she had a personality that attracted and kept many lifelong friends. At least 500 people referred to her as "Ma." Her legacy lives on today in her two upstanding sons; Steve, who works for the St. Paul Sheriff's Dept. in Community Relations, and me, a former baseball player who now works with ESPN and the San Diego Padres. She also has a Legacy Award in her name with the annual Winfield Student Athlete Scholarship Award in St. Paul , for an outstanding mother of a winning student/athlete.

The Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation will honor Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with the Dave Winfield Humanitarian Award at their 8th annual In The Spirit Of The Game dinner/auction.

Emilio "Millito" Navarro boarded a jet in San Juan on Wednesday morning, three months before his 103rd birthday. He was bound for Orlando, Fla., bound for Major League Baseball's amateur draft, bound for the New York Yankees, his favorite team.  And Robinson Cano had better break out of that slump.