Baseball 4 Causes generously provides Home Runs for the Homeless with an iPad and a custom event scoring application to record scores, manage player and team data, track tournament progress, and support day-of-event operations. The technology allows volunteers to enter results instantly, reducing errors, eliminating manual calculations, and keeping the tournament running smoothly the entire day. 

For years, tournament scores were tracked manually using paper score sheets before being totaled by hand. While effective, the process required additional time between teams and made it difficult to track special award categories throughout the day.

To modernize the experience, DICORP developed a custom scorekeeping platform built with Anvilor, a low-code technology developed to simplify complex workflows. Scorekeepers entered each swing on an iPad while the application automatically calculated scores, applied tournament rules, and updated standings in real time.

The new system also introduced live leaderboards, allowing participants and spectators to follow the competition throughout the day. By reducing manual calculations, the platform shortened scoring time enough to schedule teams every 20 minutes instead of 30, increasing tournament capacity by approximately 50% and creating even greater fundraising potential for Harford Family House.

The iPad app feeds data from every swing directly into a central database, allowing scores and player statistics to be processed instantly throughout the tournament. This information powers a real-time leaderboard that updates continuously, giving players, spectators, volunteers, and supporters the ability to follow the action as it happens. Teams can track their standings, monitor friendly competition, and celebrate big moments as they unfold, while sponsors and community members stay engaged with the event from anywhere. At the conclusion of the tournament, the finalized leaderboard serves as the official record of results, recognizing top performers, highlighting team achievements, and preserving the accomplishments of the day.

Baseball 4 Causes helps expand the reach and impact of Home Runs for the Homeless by promoting the event before, during, and after tournament day. Through engaging digital content, social media,  interviews, and community storytelling, we help showcase the people and organizations that make the event possible. Following the tournament, our team develops a comprehensive recap landing page that captures the day's highlights, celebrates award winners, shares event statistics, and preserves memorable moments through photos and participant stories. By creating a lasting digital record of the tournament, we not only recognize the incredible efforts of volunteers, sponsors, players, and donors, but also raise awareness of Harford Family House's mission, inspire future participation, and encourage continued community support. Every story shared helps amplify the impact of the event, ensuring that its message reaches far beyond the baseball field and continues to make a difference throughout the year.

B4C doesn't just support the tournament, it also participates in it. Each year, two Baseball 4 Causes teams, DICORP & JHU Bomb Squad, take the field, competing alongside the rest of the community while raising additional funds to support Home Runs for the Homeless and Harford Family House.

Overall Team Standings. 

Batter with the highest score.

Police Officer with the highest score.

Female batter with the top score who hit baseballs. 

Female batter with the top score who hit softballs. 

Home Runs For The Homeless is an annual home run derby to benefit Harford Family House held at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, MD.  Baseball 4 Causes helps staff and volunteers organization and run the event more efficiently, allowing them to focus more on their mission to help provide housing assistance; and to help increase fundraising for the event and an enhanced experience for participants and sponsors.

Harford Family House, Inc. assists families with children and unaccompanied adults achieve independency through housing, support, and resources dedicated to improving the financial stability and mental wellbeing of its clients experiencing homelessness. 

Baseball 4 Causes supports the Cal Ripken Sr Foundation via our annual B4C Baseball Ripken Experience event.  Proceeds from this event benefit the CRSF who helps transform kids lives in underserved communities.  Through their transformational at-risk youth programs and Youth Development Parks, multipurpose parks, CRSF creates safe opportunities for youth in need to develop valuable life skills, build character, connect positively with local law enforcement, and learn how to make productive choices for their future. By partnering with youth-serving organizations and schools across the country, they provide educational life skills curriculum for adult mentors to use to better engage and teach the children they serve. Baseball 4 Causes is proud to be one of their dedicated partners and generous donors to support these opportunities to impact millions of young lives every year. 

Joshua Evan Hamer, born on April 2nd, 2001 in Denton, Texas, was a talented and joyful young man. With a passion for sports, particularly baseball, Joshua excelled academically and was loved by all. Tragically, on March 2, 2017, at the age of 15, he lost his life in a car accident on his way to school. To honor his memory, the Joshua Hamer Legacy Foundation was established in 2023 building upon the tremendous impact of the Joshua Hamer Memorial. This legacy scholarship program provides financial assistance to high school seniors in Cecil or Harford County, Maryland to attend college, regardless of gender. In its first year, the scholarship has already positively impacted 3 students, and the goal is to continue changing lives one student at a time.

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Several baseball players in our community made this effort possible through their generous support of these students.