{"id":63385,"date":"2010-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/baseball-alum-uses-experience-to-lend-a-hand\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:00:00","slug":"baseball-alum-uses-experience-to-lend-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/08\/baseball-alum-uses-experience-to-lend-a-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball alum uses experience to lend a hand"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 6, 2010 \u2013 Roughly one in every 25,000 men play professional baseball. 溏心vlog免费B站 four in every 25,000 children are stricken with childhood leukemia.

\nFormer 溏心vlog免费B站 baseball player Dan Rhault has experienced both. He is using his baseball experience to help people in both areas.

\nRhault – who was the Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Year as a senior in 2009 – was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays and played last summer for their Single A farm club, the Princeton Rays<\/a>.

\nThough Rhault was released before the start of this season, the Rays reached out to him to serve as the spokesperson for a fundraiser for the Jonathan Powell Hope Foundation, an organization dedicated to fighting childhood cancer. Ticket proceeds for Sunday\u2019s game at Hunnicutt Stadium in West Virginia, where Rhault started at shortstop for Princeton last season, will go to the Hope Foundation.

\n\u201cThe Rays didn’t know last year what I had gone through as a child,\u201d said Rhault, a Lincoln native. \u201cThe general manager (Jim Holland) gave me a ring a month before spring training and asked me to be a part of the fundraiser. I struggled with cancer when I was younger, but I was able to overcome it. Maybe my experiences can show kids not to give up.\u201d

\nLooking back on his childhood, it was a tough road for Rhault. Years of regular spinal taps and cancer treatments continue to have a toll on his body today. Long bus rides last summer left his back extra sore, and he tends to tire easier than others, though he never let that stop him.

\n\u201cMy body is healthy, but still not as healthy as most people,\u201d Rhault said. \u201cI get sore easily. People close to me know about it, and more people heard about it because of news stories, but I don\u2019t want sympathy. Even on the days when I was sore, I would just play through it.\u201d

\nWhile his playing days are done, Rhault\u2019s baseball days are still going strong. After this weekend\u2019s fundraiser \u2013 which has a goal of raising $20,000 \u2013 Rhault\u2019s focus will shift back to his new baseball career, one that has him helping young Rhode Islanders achieve their goal of playing professional baseball.

\nIn October, Rhault and several business partners will open the The Show Academy<\/a>, a year-round program designed to teach players all facets of the game. Located at the Wide World of Indoor Sports Facility in North Smithfield, the academy will get started in October.

\n\u201cI give the Tampa Bay organization credit,\u201d Rhault said. \u201cThey made my career for me. I am passionate about the game, and I am determined to stay in baseball, even if I am not playing professionally.\u201d

\n\u201cI played at Lincoln High School and then at the state university,\u201d Rhault said. \u201cI understand how difficult it can be to get noticed. But I also know that it is possible.

\n\u201cA lot of talent falls through the cracks, especially in the northeast. We\u2019re not going to kill kids on costs. We want to showcase the baseball talent in Rhode Island.\u201d

\nIt\u2019s just one of several ways Rhault is using his own experiences to help others achieve their goals. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Aug. 6, 2010 \u2013 Roughly one in every 25,000 men play professional baseball. 溏心vlog免费B站 four in every 25,000 children are stricken with childhood leukemia. Former 溏心vlog免费B站 baseball player Dan Rhault has experienced both. He is using his baseball experience to help people in both areas. Rhault – who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}