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Pirates Charities, Pittsburgh police team up during Citiparks' Grab-and-Go event

Kevin Gorman
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Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Bailey poses for a photo while distributing baseball cards with Pittsburgh Pirates and Police at Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Pittsburgh police Officer Michael Bailey signs a baseball cards with Pittsburgh Pirates and Police on either side at Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Free meals are distributed at Pittsburgh Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Eat’n Park cookies and baseball cards with Pirates players and Pittsburgh Police are given out to city schoolchildren at Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Free meals are distributed at Pittsburgh Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Free meals are distributed at Pittsburgh Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.
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Free meals are distributed at Pittsburgh Citipark’s Grab-and-Go program at Paulson Recreation Center on Friday, May 29, 2020.

Pittsburgh Pirates bench coach Don Kelly and Pittsburgh police Chief Scott Schubert didn’t just distribute lunches to children at Paulson Recreation Center.

They also handed out baseball cards.

Pirates Charities and the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Officers teamed with the Topps Company to launch a program earlier this month that features Pirates players and Pittsburgh Police officers on six trading cards, designed to encourage positive behavior.

The cards were distributed during Citiparks’ Grab-and-Go program, which provides free lunches to children from Pittsburgh Public Schools at four locations during the week. Free masks also were available through the Pittsburgh Police “Need a Mask, Take a Mask” program.

Kevin Gorman is a TribLive reporter covering the Pirates. A Baldwin native and Penn State graduate, he joined the Trib in 1999 and has covered high school sports, Pitt football and basketball and was a sports columnist for 10 years. He can be reached at kgorman@triblive.com.

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