Kids with bats and one helmet on the dirt infield in Constanza, mountains behind the outfield wall

Forty kids.
One bat.

EC Money collects the gear baseball families outgrow and puts it in the hands of kids in the Dominican Republic who have almost none. A dad started it. He delivers it himself.

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Constanza, Dominican Republic

Ninety seconds. Chris tells it himself.

No narrator, no script. These are the voice messages he sent a friend after the trip, over the photos and video he took on the field.

We play baseball. We have two kids in baseball.

I took my son to play in Constanza, up in the mountains of the Dominican Republic. Forty kids showed up. Between them they had one bat, one glove, and maybe one helmet. Some had no shoes.

Back home, every kid on my son's team swings a five-hundred-dollar bat. There are two or three thousand dollars of bats in our dugout on any Saturday.

What shocked me most wasn't the bats. It was the baseballs. A ball costs two dollars. For these kids it's four hours away in the capital, because nobody sells them in the campo. Think about a kid who doesn't always have food, and how he's going to get a baseball four hours away.

So I started asking the other parents in our league. Every one of them said yes. Old bats, gloves, cleats, helmets. In February I'm flying down, picking up the boxes myself, and handing a bat to every kid on that field.

We've been blessed. We want to give back. And I want my kids to see it.

Chris ColladoFounder, EC Money

View from the dugout through the fence: kids waiting to hit, caps hanging on the chain-link

How your old bat gets to Constanza

No warehouse, no middlemen. Three steps, and Chris does the last one himself.

Collect
Parents in our league and friends at work hand us the gear their kids outgrew. Bats, gloves, cleats, helmets, catcher's gear, balls. Used is fine. Usable is what matters.
Ship
The boxes go with a family shipper who already sends goods to the Dominican Republic every month, straight to the capital.
Hand-deliver
Chris picks up the boxes himself, drives the four hours to the field, and puts a bat in every kid's hands.
Next trip: February

¡Los mejores!

After the game, the kids in Constanza lined up for handshakes and started chanting los mejores, “the best, the best.” They don't have the gear yet. They already have the heart. That's who we're doing this for.

Filmed by Chris at the field in Constanza. Turn the sound on.

Pass it down.

Baseball families have always handed gear down. A dad's glove. A brother's bat. This just carries it a little farther.

Give a bat

Or a glove, helmet, cleats, catcher's gear, balls. Used is fine. Tell us what you have and where you are, and Chris will arrange pickup.

Wear it. Every order buys gear.

Caps and jerseys in the EC Money black and gold, printed to order and shipped straight to you, so nothing sits in a garage. Profits go to the next box.

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