The Maryland Food Bank is now accepting something other than the traditional donations of money and food: baseball tickets.
The group, which supplies area soup kitchens and other feeding programs for the poor, lost a source of food when the baseball season was canceled by the players' strike. The group received surplus food from home games.
But a new program, organized by retired Anne Arundel County schoolteacher Gus Lundquist, enables baseball fans to send their unused season tickets to the food bank, which will obtain a refund from the team and use the money to feed the hungry.
