A record-setting 24-Hour Baseball Game will take place in Tucson, Arizona on October 18-19. The event is being organized by American Women’s Baseball and Tucson-based Live the Dream Athletics to raise awareness of the AIDS crisis in Africa.

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The Location
The game will be played at Tucson Electric Park. The stadium is the spring training home to both the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Chicago White Sox. The game will make history as the longest women’s baseball game ever played. A record of the game, as well as its participants and major contributors, will be permanently archived in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

The Objective
The main objective of the game is to raise $100,000 for the health care of African women and their children as they fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. 1 in 4 Africans are infected with HIV/AIDS. 13 million are children. Over 6,500 people die every day.

U.S. Doctors of Africa
Through US Doctors for Africa, the funds raised will support volunteer American doctors in Africa. Their specific goal is to help birth healthy babies. Approximately $150 provides the medicine and safeguards needed to ensure a new baby is born free of HIV.

Participants
Over 100 women from across the United States will participate in the game and raise money. Preliminary events have been held in Chicago, Denver, New York, Pawtucket, Washington DC, Seattle, California, and Arizona.

Members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) will serve as coaches. These women were made famous by the movie A League of Their Own.

Apple Computer will support the game with a twenty-four hour live Internet radio broadcast. Film star and humanitarian Steven Seagal will serve as an honorary spokesperson.