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Kluber’s Kids A Home Party: Adrian
August 18th, 2020
Dallas, Texas
On select home games throughout the
season, Corey and Amanda usually host a child from DFW-area children’s
hospitals at Globe Life Field for a dream day at the ballpark. As part of this
longstanding program, the child and his or her family and friends will meet
Corey and Amanda, watch batting practice on the field, shop at the team shop,
enjoy a classic ballpark dinner and stay for the game.
However, this year’s program looks
a little bit different due to the MLB’s coronavirus rules. Corey and
Amanda have elected to host Kluber’s Kids At-Home Parties instead. The Kluber’s
first at-home participant was Adrian, who enjoyed the program on Tuesday
afternoon!
Adrian, a Ft. Worth resident, is
very thankful to be the first Kluber’s Kid this season. Adrian is a huge
Rangers fan and enjoys playing baseball, too. He is an outstanding 2nd
Baseman. He is 11 and has battled kidney disease from the age of 3. He had a
full kidney replacement at age 10. The donor? His very own brother!
He was only back in school about 60
days this year before the COVID quarantine shut the school down. He will
continue with online classes this fall. On August 18th, Adrian had
his first day back to school and wasn’t too thrilled with that virtual
experience. However, on that same day, the Kluber Family Foundation was able to
celebrate Adrian’s strength!
Adrian and his family received an
at-home baseball-themed watch party to enjoy the Rangers vs. Padres game on
Tuesday afternoon. The watch party was catered by Pluckers Wing Bar and came
complete with a #28 Kluber jersey and a special video message from Corey and
Amanda themselves.
In addition, Adrian and his family
also received Kluber’s Kids t-shirts, Rangers hats, cardboard cutouts at the
Globe Life Field, and vouchers for tickets to a Rangers game next season. To
top it off, Adrian and his family were highlighted as part of the Rangers
broadcast during the game.
This special experience brought
smiles to the faces of Adrian and his family during what has been a challenging
year. The Kluber Family Foundation was honored to treat Adrian to our first
Kluber’s Kids program of the 2020 MLB season!
Click here to view
photos from Tuesday’s Kluber’s Kids program.
Cleveland Indians Pitcher Corey Kluber and Wife Amanda Launch 'Kluber's Korner' Program at UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Posted By:
Austin Alley
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
CLEVELAND (JUNE 25, 2019) – On Tuesday morning,
June 25th, Cleveland Indians Pitcher Corey Kluber and his wife, Amanda, paid
the patients and families at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies &
Children’s Hospital a visit to unveil their inaugural Kluber’s Korner tech
lockers in the Trisha O’Brien Pavilion as part of the Kluber Family
Foundation’s community outreach. These mobile lockers feature 30 portable DVD
players, eight HP Chromebook laptops and more than a dozen Nintendo Switch
gaming consoles with games.
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Children
undergoing treatment at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital enthusiastically
greeted the Klubers as they entered the Trisha O’Brien Pavilion, indicating
their excitement to have one of the American League’s best pitchers paying them
a visit. The Klubers reciprocated the excitement by taking some time to break
in the new devices and play Nintendo Switch games with the patients.
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Kluber spoke
at length about the importance of the foundation’s mission and outreach with
the program’s emcee, Cleveland Indians on-air reporter Andre Knott.
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“We’re
truly inspired by seeing what these kids deal with every day,” Kluber said. “One
of the main things that always stands out to us is the amount of time that a
lot of these patients are spending in the hospital. We wanted to find a way to
make that time they spend here a little more enjoyable.”
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“We’re
truly inspired by seeing what these kids deal with every day,” Kluber said. “One
of the main things that always stands out to us is the amount of time that a
lot of these patients are spending in the hospital. We wanted to find a way to
make that time they spend here a little more enjoyable.”
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The Klubers were joined by Patricia DePompei, President & CEO of UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, and the foundation’s Legacy Donors for a ribbon cutting, officially launching the Kluber’s Korner program. Following the ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Klubers visited the in-patient floor playroom to meet the patients and families who were unable to attend the launch.
“It truly brings me so much joy to get to meet these families,” Amanda Kluber said. “Once I started visiting these hospitals and seeing what these patients go through, it ignited something in me, and I developed a passion for this mission.”
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“We are
honored to welcome Corey, Amanda and The Kluber Family Foundation into the
Rainbow family. With their generous gift, patients will gain access to
technology and games to educate and entertain them during their stay at
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital,” says President
DePompei. “Partnerships in philanthropy and our community allow us to raise the
bar in patient experience. It is a privilege to be the first recipient of The Kluber
Foundation’s Kluber’s Korner.”
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Internationally
renowned, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital is a full-service
children’s hospital and pediatric academic medical center with experts in 16
medical divisions and 11 surgical specialties who offer nationally ranked care
not available at other institutions in the region, including a center dedicated
to adolescent and young adult cancer treatment and Northeast Ohio’s only
single-site provider of advanced maternal fetal medicine and neonatology
services.
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Kluber’s
Korner is the signature community outreach program of the Kluber Family
Foundation, whose mission is to impact the lives of families who have seriously-ill
and chronically-ill children by providing them with daily support through life-improving
resources and life-changing experiences. These two Kluber’s Korner tech lockers
at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, which will be ultimately reside
in the facility’s Family Resource Center, could touch the lives of up to
350,000 pediatric patients and family members on a yearly basis.
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