{"id":6219,"date":"2011-01-08T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2011-01-08T19:28:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T03:28:40","slug":"prayers-for-umpire-milt-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=6219","title":{"rendered":"Umpire Milt Hand – Updated"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Umpire Milt Hand (center) just prior to the 2009 ISC II Tournament of Champions Championship Game (click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Update: January 8, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of you have been following Milt’s progress on the caring pages site.\u00a0 I know he loves to read your comments.\u00a0 Although he is on the road to recovery, this will be a very long process incurring many expenses not covered by insurance for both him and wife,\u00a0Sheree as she cares for him.\u00a0 Even when Milt is released from the hospital he will need to remain in Iowa City for\u00a0outpatient care.\u00a0 Sheree is staying in Iowa City as well, but must travel between there and the Quad Cities several times a week to maintain the household. The Quint Cities Metro Umpires Association Board has established an ongoing fund at IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union to help defray these costs.\u00a0 Anyone wishing to contribute to this fund is encouraged to send donations to:<\/p>\n

IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union
\nP.O. Box 1010
\nMoline, IL 61265<\/p>\n

Please make checks payable to the Milt Hand Benefit Fund<\/strong> and include the account number 70149337 on the memo line to\u00a0ensure that\u00a0your gift gets to Milt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This fund will remain active throughout Milt’s treatment and recovery. If you have any questions, please contact me.<\/p>\n

I would like to thank you now for your love, prayers and support for Milt and his family.<\/p>\n

God bless you all,
\n-Denny Mesick,
\nPresident QC Metro Umpires Association,
\nDeputy UIC for Illinois ASA Softball
\n309.799.8602
\n309.738.6906
\nmesick4 (@) mchsi.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

December 14, 2010 <\/em><\/p>\n

Prayers for umpire Milt Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: We share the following from ISC Deputy UiC Les Novak. Milt was instrumental not only on the field in doing a great job umpiring at the ISC II ToC in 2009, but also contributed significantly off the field with the host committee as well. We send him our prayers and best wishes so that we may see him when we return to Quad Cities in August.<\/em><\/p>\n

I wanted to pass along some information that I received regarding Milt Hand, one of our softball umpires that works in the Iowa Conference, Big Ten, Missouri Valley and also had the plate on the final ISC II championship game at Quad Cities in 2009.<\/p>\n

If you do not know Milt, he has been retired for a few years from the City of Moline where he was the Director of Parks and Recreation for many years. For those of you who know Milt and have had a chance to be around him or work with him, you know he is a true gentleman in every sense of the word, not to mention an excellent softball umpire.<\/p>\n

Sheree Hand (Milt Hand\u2019s wife) called yesterday to say that Milt had not been feeling well for some time and his red blood cell count was not what it should be. The doctors have diagnosed now that Milt has leukemia. He is in the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City and will be there at least a month. He is too ill for visitors or phone calls at this time, but would welcome cards, emails and certainly prayers.<\/p>\n

His address at University of Iowa Hospitals is:<\/p>\n

Milt Hand
\n7RCS
\nUniv. Hospital
\n200 Hawkins Dr.
\nIowa City, IA 52242<\/p>\n

His home address is:
\n8717 Ridgewood Road
\nRock Island, IL 61201<\/p>\n

If you want to send any e-mails, Sheree will be sure that they get to him. Milt\u2019s email address is: mhumptoo ( at ) netzero.net<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: January 8, 2011 Many of you have been following Milt’s progress on the caring pages site.\u00a0 I know he loves to read your comments.\u00a0 Although he is on the road to recovery, this will be a very long process incurring many expenses not covered by insurance for both him and wife,\u00a0Sheree as she cares […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-isc","8":"category-isc-ii","9":"category-people","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6899,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}