Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society

The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) serves as an educational resource for all Major League and Minor League Baseball athletic trainers. PBATS serves its members by providing for the continued education of the athletic trainer as it relates to the profession, helping improve his/her understanding of sports medicine so as to better promote the health of his constituency -- professional baseball players. PBATS also serves as a resource to educate those outside the professional baseball athletic trainer community about the profession and about the athletic trainer's integral position within the sports medicine team.

PLAY, which stands for Promoting a Lifetime of Activity for Youth, is a public awareness campaign of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society® (PBATS), in conjunction with the Taylor Hooton Foundation (www.TaylorHooton.org). The PLAY campaign promotes living healthy and active lifestyles among children in America.

Maroon PR manages media relations and social media efforts for the PBATS' PLAY campaign. This year PLAY will visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, conducting events with the athletic training staff and players from those teams to educate children about living healthy lifestyles. Maroon PR will conduct media outreach in those markets and bolster social media efforts for PBATS to garner exposure for their program in an effort to continue building notoriety for PLAY throughout the United States.