As a lifelong Tigers (and yes,even Lions) fan, this announcement is very exciting for me! Personally, I’ve been a Tigers fan since the days of Alan Trammel. As a kid, I remember collecting all the Detroit Tiger cards I could find, trading any and all cards; I had to get more Tigers. As an adult, in retrospect, this was probably not wise and certainly not lucrative, but that’s the magic of being a kid, none of that matters. All that mattered was collecting the whole team each and every year!

So it is with exceptional personal excitement that I bring to you, in words and in pictures, CURE’s trip to visit, and examine, the Detroit Tigers at their facility in the Dominican Republic!

Our CURE Staff, Dan, Francel, Sue and Robbie, went to the Detroit Tigers Academy on the morning of April 25th and performed 26 new player orthopedic exams. The Tigers’ U.S. physician, Dr. Sal Montenegro, was extremely pleased with the CURE team and feels the Tigers have someone they can really count on in the DR to take care of their players! This is the first major thing we have done with Detroit thus far, and it was successful!

The fees that our DR staff collected from the Tigers organization for performing the examinations will go directly to help pay for the care of the kids we treat in our hospital in Santo Domingo; overall, it was a win-win. The Tiger’s players received excellent treatment, and kids in the DR will benefit.

Here are a few pictures from the event, as well as the CURE staff posing in front of the Detroit Logo, to give our readers are firsthand view of our visit!