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    Brain Aneurysm Awareness Day in Detroit

    Look out Detroit, Brain Aneurysm Awareness Day is coming to your neck of the woods.  That’s right, April 28th, Comerica Park will welcome The Joe Niekro Foundation as the Detroit Tigers take on The Minnesota Twins.  What makes this day so special is that Joe Niekro wore the jerseys from each of these franchises, having begun […]

    Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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    The Joe Niekro Foundation’s newest Board Member Dee Stargell Speaks of her life with Willie and the aneurysm that nearly took her life

    A few weeks ago I was contacted by Jimmy Scott, a reporter who had recently interviewed me on my life, Dad and the purpose and future of The Joe Niekro Foundation.  It was at that time that Jimmy informed me of a recent interview he had conducted with Dee Stargell, the former wife of the late baseball […]

    Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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    Charging from the Sidelines while Battling Back from an Aneurysm

    Everyday I seem to be hit from a different direction to hear of yet another innocent victim fallen prey to these sudden killers we call aneurysms.  Just yesterday, my dear friend, Jonathan Mayo, who writes for MLB and helps greatly with the foundation sent me an article of a young woman who that just a few months ago experienced a ruptured […]

    Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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    Legends Fantasy Baseball Camp is Coming!

    Grab your glove and dust off those cleats…Legends Fantasy Camp is hitting the streets.  The Joe Niekro Foundation and Character and Courage Foundation have teamed up to bring you a baseball camp unlike any other.  Learn the subtle nuances of the game from four Hall of Fame greats and six former major leaguers, as you […]

    Posted on Sunday, January 31, 2010
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    When you touch the heart of one, you touch the heart of thousands

    Yesterday, I had the amazing opportunity to speak to a group of students in the medical assisting program at Keiser University.  The class wasn’t huge, about 125 people, but what an extraordinary group of men and women.  As I stood at the podium in the front of the auditorium, I felt that every ounce of their attention […]

    Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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