Charity Stripe: Cardinals-Themed Cancer Center Being Built

Choi Would Donate FedEx Cup Prize Money To Charity

Cardinals Minority Owner David Pratt's $1M donation to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center will be used to build a Cardinals-themed Pediatric Cancer and Hematology Center. The center will include murals depicting Busch Stadium’s brick archways and a baseball diamond outline on the floor (Cardinals)....MLB has pledged $100,000 as an initial donation to ThinkCure, the new cancer research partnership between the Dodgers, the City of Hope and the Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (MLB)....White Sox players’ wives are selling limited-edition White Sox tank tops for women. Proceeds from sales will go to Chicago White Sox Charities and benefit Gilda’s Club Chicago and Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation (White Sox)....Yankees manger Joe Torre’s charity golf tournament at Trump National Golf Course on Monday raised $400,000 for his Safe At Home Foundation (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 8/1)....PGA Tour member K.J. Choi said that if he wins the inaugural FedEx Cup, he wants to use the $10M prize "to start his own foundation.” Choi: “I want to give it all to charity, 100[%]. ... I want to help a lot of the unfortunate kids around the world” (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 8/2).