by Ray Glier, Special for USA TODAY Sports JACKSONVILLE -- Gina DeJesus was one of three girls abducted and held victim for years by notorious Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro. He allowed his victims to watch television and, one night during her ordeal, DeJesus saw her mother,...
By Emelia Hitchner, St. Augustine Record For the families of missing children, hope can be a fleeting emotion. Long after news stations have moved onto fresher stories and fliers have faded from weather and time, the sense of loss lingers. That was the case, at least, before one...
BairFind provides information that fans can see at games. By Sheryl Krieg, skrieg@news-sentinel.com As a father of two grown children, Mad Ants President Tim Bawmann can only imagine what parents experience when they try to locate their missing children. To raise awareness of their plight, he has formed...
By Josh Norris, Baseball America Every minor leaguer across the country spends their time working toward getting the call. Every swing in batting practice, every grounder fielded, every hour they spend on a cramped bus in the middle of the night is done in pursuit of...
by Jarah Wright, Ballparkdigest.com Former minor league pitcher Dennis Bair didn’t expect missing children to become his life’s work. However, a chance viewing of a documentary one off-season set in motion a chain of events that changed his career trajectory. Bair was drafted by the Chicago Cubs...
By Elizabeth Tyree & Valerie Bragg DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) - Two of the missing children featured at the Danville Braves ballpark have now been found. The Braves, along with other minor league teams, partnered with the Bair Foundation. Each team displays four children who are missing in Virginia. Now...
By Michael Livingston, GoDanRiver.com Samantha Clarke, Shimeaka Gibson and more than 360 children are missing from Virginia — and during their season this summer, the Danville Braves helped to raise awareness about them. Clarke and Gibson were two of the four missing children seen on a wooden A-frame at Legion...
By The Lowell Sun LOWELL -- A Florida-based nonprofit group that works with minor league baseball teams to help find missing children says four missing kids who had their pictures posted at LeLacheur Park this season have been found. Edward Vasquez, 15, of Springfield; Skyelee Housman, 17, of...
by Jim Molis, Jacksonville Nonprofit News, Every picture does tell a story. For Dennis Bair, that picture used to be an autographed photo of professional football legend Rocky Bleier. The photo depicts Bleier rambling downfield as a running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers during their dynasty years in...
By Loren Thomas, WLTX-TV 19 Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Two missing Columbia teenagers have now been found thanks in part to a program designed to get their faces out to where most people will see them. The program is under the BairFind Foudation, which partners with the National Center...
