Our Men's Club had not attempted to attend a professional sporting event in the past because of the issue of selling enough tickets to have a bus take the group to the sporting event since our Men's Club has a majority of senior's who do not drive far distances ( ie, 50 miles to the stadium ). In previous years, I had tried to have the religious school sell tickets to the Jewish Heritage Baseball Game that had been publized by a Jewish radio show host to help fundraise for Jewish day schools but it never really got off the ground.
2012 had the Florida Marlins moving into a new indoor enclosed air conditioned stadium in Miami thus making the outing alittle bit more feasible in August ( ever try sitting outside in South Florida in August on a Sunday 1 pm afternoon to watch a baseball game - good luck roasting ).
Recently my Men's Club was barking alittle about what national does for our club as well as what the Florida Region does. Thus I had mentioned to our Club that we wanted to sponsor having our Men's Club attend the Jewish Heritage Day Baseball Game this year and invite the South Florida subregion of the FJMC to attend with us. Everyone agreed this would be a great function to have. I asked the sub regional vice president in our area if this was OK and he stated it would be a great regional function to do since our Men's Club Regional retreat had to be cancelled last year and the region had not been functioning that well. Publicity was sent out to the affiliated FJMC clubs in the South Florida subregion and the various presidents were contacted personally by myself. We ended up having 7 different FJMC clubs in the area participate. We ended up selling 250 tickets and had 3 buses start in Palm Beach Garderns and pick up clubs in Boynton Beach and Boca Raton. Clubs in Broward and Dade County ended up driving themselves to the game. It was a fantastic Regional event and everyone had fun. The Marlins Ballpark has a concession stand called " Kosher Corner" that was situated close to the seats so as kosher food would be available at the game as well.