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Marilyn Bohl Donates To Uptown Long Beach Baseball

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The Uptown Long Beach 10U All-Stars needed help getting to Hawaii to compete in the Pacific South West Regional in Honolulu and our own Marilyn Bohl has stepped up for these youth baseball players.

Bohl met coach Jeff Champlin today and handed over a $5,000 donation to help Uptown LB afford the trip to Hawaii.

Bohl is the founding supporter at The562.org and Dirtbags advocate who has her name on Blair Field.

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JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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