KTU Cares Presents All-Star Celebrity Softball Game to Benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund

KTU Cares Presents All-Star Celebrity Softball Game to Benefit the American Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund

NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Clear Channel Radio's (NYSE:CCU) The Beat of New York, 103.5FM The New KTU (WKTU-FM), is teaming up with Jeff Marchetti, The American Red Cross in Greater New York, The Staten Island Yankees, Foot Locker, Under Armour Performance Apparel and many celebrities for a star studded softball game to raise money for the Hurricane Relief Funds. The KTU Cares presents "All Star Celebrity Softball Game" will take place at Richmond County Bank Ball Park, home of the 2005 New York Penn League Champions Staten Island Yankees on Saturday, October 15th, 75 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY. Doors open at 11:00AM. The game starts at Noon. (Rain date: Sunday, October 16th)

Jeff Marchetti of HBO's hit series The Sopranos, along with some of his celebrity friends including: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Steve Buscemi, Robert Iler, 'Little' Steven VanZandt, Maureen VanZandt, Tony Sirico, Vincent Curatola, Aida Turturro, Steven Schirripa, John Ventimiglia, Joe Gannascoli, Vincent Pastore, Susan Sarandon, Chris Noth, Jon Seda, David Eigenberg, Dan Grimaldi, Bobby Funaro, Arthur Nascarella, Carl Capatorto, Spike Lee, Emily Frances, Will Janowitz, Peter Bogdanovich, Lawrence 'LT' Taylor, Mario Cantone, Sharon Angela, Tim VanPatten, Frank Vincent, Eddy Izzard also KTU's Goumba Johnny, Baltazar, Speedy, Diane Prior, Broadway Bill Lee, Vic Latino, Showboat and other film, television, and music industry celebrities will take the field for a charity softball game.

Tickets to the event will be General Admission only for $10.35 and will be available to the general public this week at the Staten Island Yankee Box Office, by calling (718) 720-9200 or at http://www.siyanks.com/

The "All-Star Celebrity Game" will donate to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund for support of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts 100% of the proceeds from the event from now until October 15, 2005. For more information about the American Red Cross in Greater New York, please call 1-877-REDCROSS, or visit http://www.redcross.org/

For continued updates and additional information on the softball game, listen in to KTU at 103.5FM or log on to http://www.ktu.com/

Source: WKTU-FM

CONTACT: Josefa Paganuzzi, +1-212-398-8061, josefapaganuzzi@clearchannel.com, or Don MacLeod, +1-212-822-4535, both for WKTU-FM

Web site: http://www.ktu.com/ http://www.redcross.org/ http://www.siyanks.com/

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