Black Keys are the key to $28,000 baseball fundraiser

The Black Keys sponsored West Akron Baseball League T-shirts raised $28,000 for the youth league where band members Pat Carney and Dan Auerbach once played. 

Jim Carney, Maura McEnaney, Patrick Carney with
West Akron Baseball League T-shirts

Firestone High grads Carney and Auerbach formed the Grammy-winning band that tours the world.

Steve Milkovich, WABL board member and vice president of T-Ball, said he’s seen the T-shirts springing up all over the country.

“How great is it that Jim Carney [Pat Carney’s father and former Beacon Journal reporter] is backstage at a “Saturday Night Live” performance and they’re wearing the WABL shirts?” he said.

So was Maura McEnaney, married to former BJ sports editor Ken Krause and living in Medford, Massachussetts.

To read the BJ article, click on http://www.ohio.com/news/black-keys-shirts-raise-28-000-for-west-akron-baseball-league-1.489230