Mark Harmon's celebrity baseball game returns to OKC

Mark Harmon is returning to Oklahoma City!  The star of the CBS hit show "NCIS," will once again suit up a team full of former Major League ballplayers, athletes and Hollywood movie makers for the 8^th annual Mark Harmon Celebrity Weekend, a baseball game benefiting The Children's Center of Bethany.

Harmon's Bombers will take on the local Oklahoma Sports Science & Orthopedics team made up of a number of area neurologists, neurosurgeons and NEWS 9's own Doug Warner, who has played for the O.S.S.O. Outlaws during the last two annual match-ups.  He even hit a home run over The Brick's left field fence during last year's game.  However his heroics weren't enough to carry the Outlaws to victory, the Bombers won 12-7.

The proceeds from the game will help support all the good work being done at The Children's Center.  The Children's Center is a place of hope and healing for children with debilitating illnesses, who suffer from birth defects, or were injured in a traumatic accident, have drug-dependent parents or were physically abused or neglected.  The private, nonprofit hospital provides 24-hour medical care, rehabilitative therapies and special education for the children.

Show your support for The Children's Center, Mark Harmon and NEWS 9's Doug Warner by attending ‘Pitch in for Kids,' 8^th annual Mark Harmon Celebrity Weekend, May 31, 2008 at the Bricktown Ballpark. You can buy tickets to the big game by contacting Redhawks' baseball at 405-218-1000.  Your purchase will also get you into the Redhawks game that night against Omaha.