PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- After Saturday's rain forced a postponement, the Striking Out in the Berkshires Jimmy Fund fund-raiser will try again on Saturday, July 1 at Clapp Park.

 

Players of any ability are welcome to participate in a charity baseball and softball games.

 

So are players with no ability at all.

 

"I've had some people call and text me and ask, 'Do you have to be a baseball player?' No, you don't," organizer Joe DiCicco said last year of the Striking Out Cancer in the Berkshires event. "It's about fun and about raising money for a good cause."

 

DiCicco started Striking Out Cancer in 2021 in honor of his wife, who was a patient at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute prior to her passing in 2000.

 

DiCicco modeled the event on other daylong sporting event fund-raisers and believed at the time the Clapp Park event was the first of its kind in New England: a continuous game with players rotating in throughout the day as needed to fill out the lineup card.

 

This year's third annual edition begins at 9 a.m. on July 1 and is scheduled to run through 5 p.m.

 

Players are asked to make a $10 donation to Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund, which gives them the chance to take the field and receive a T-shirt commemorating the fund-raiser.

 

For information, contact DiCicco at 518-390-2512 or email jdicicco7@aol.com.