Basketball Solicitation Letter: Fill & Download for Free

I once found a wallet early in the morning on my way to the market. I'm looking at it and my mind was flooded with questions.Does it have money inside?Was it a prank ?or bait?I had to decide if I want to leave it for someone else to see or pick it up; I did the latter and found IDs with an address. And about thirty pesos, nothing else.The address on the IDs seemed familiar to me, so I decide to take it with me and figured I'll go look for the owner later that day. I asked my mom where the place is, and she tells me it's about a half an hour walk from our house (this was in the 90’s).Ugh. I mean, I'm not going to ask anything in return but half an hour walking?A couple days passed and I forgot about the wallet. Closer to the end of that week, me and my buddies planned to go solicit funds for our basketball uniforms. Where I grew up this is a common thing, we would knock door to door with a letter stamped by our local official asking for money. I thought I would go alone and head towards that half an hour away address and get it over with.I found the address, it was a townhouse that seemed like a place where above midclasss folks live. I'm thinking maybe they will offer me a cold drink as gratitude, and then I will show them my letter. Good idea.I rang the doorbell and was met by a bulky, 40ish looking guy. I recognize the face matched the one headed towards me; suddenly it dawned into me that he might think I stole it from him and beat me up - I didn't rehearse any of this and this is not how it played in my head. I should've taken a friend with me.“Sir, I found your wallet in the market place last Tuesday morning.”“Where did you find this?” he asks me back, maybe to confirm if my story checks out.“It was at the tail end of the jeepney (local transport here in Manila), around 5 in the morning infront of the marketplace.”He looks at me for a few seconds, I didn't know what to say next so looked away and just hurried to get the wallet strapped to my waist by my underwear garter ( no pockets, was wearing basketball shorts) and stepped back a few steps.“Did you find anything?”“I saw the 30 pesos but it's still there. I only opened it to check for IDs.”I thought of possible comebacks from him to pin me into pickpocketing. In my head I was already planning to run towards the gate. What if they had a dog? A big dog?“ I mean, did you find anything else?”“Nothing else sir.”He takes his wallet and opens a secret compartment - and pulled a small plastic bag that looked like one of those emergency sewing kits you get from hotels.He saw me looking at his hand. He looked up, saw my blank face and was probably thinking i didn't know what he just pocketed.“You didn't see this?”“No sir.”“Did you tell anyone about this?”“No sir.”He made this gesture with his thumb and I still didn't know what he was telling me. Finally he tells me it's meth (in local terminology), took me another minute to process what he was telling me and then realized I know too much now.“What's that in your hand?”I showed him the solicitation letter, and that we are looking for sponsors. Turns out he owns a scrap metal business - he gives me a couple of thousand pesos which is more than enough to pay for half of the uniforms.I said thanks, and he gives me this look that says we're even. Without the idea of getting beat up (or probably murdered) lurking in my head I caught that reassuring smile in his face and understood right away that we both got a good deal.Me and my teammates would visit him everytime we won games, looking for free snacks and drinks.His business closed after a few months and never saw him again.

Try meeting major league baseball players after the game when they leave. In the NFL volunteer for basketball games that the teams play to raise money for charity. Or you can write a letter to your favorite team and ask if some players are willing to pitch in and help your cause. You will find most players when they know money is earmarked for charity are most generous. The most generous I personally know plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates and is Andrew McCutcheon. He is generous and a prince for needy people. Try the Pittsburgh Pirates especially since they are out of the race to win the central.Good Luck.William

My prediction is the FBI will find nothing new but someone, somewhere will conjure up another allegation of sexual misconduct because obviously we are to believe this person who has been a federal judge for 12 years, worked in the white house, was a girls basketball coach, has been married to the same woman for 17 or so years, has been managed to conceal the fact that he is a serial sexual predator from everyone.. and no one had a clue, including the FBI agents who conducted the prior 6 background checks… Or we can believe that the Democrats who said immediately upon nomination that they would block his nomination by any means necessary meant what they said and “any means necessary”, includes defamation and lying. Hmmmm…It seems to me a bit easier to believe that Senator Blumenthal who brazenly lied about being in Vietnam( See An open letter from 14 Medal of Honor recipients to Sen. Blumenthal over his hypocrisy on Gorsuchand Senator Harris who lied about Kavanaughs testimony and got 4 Pinnochios for her efforts from the Washington Post ( see Senator Harris Gets Four Pinocchios for Kavanaugh LieDick Durbin compared American soldiers at Guantanamo to Nazi’s ( seeIllinois senator apologizesfor Guantanamo-Nazi remarks.And so forth.. it seems that this gang of miscreants is not above lying… just saying… and it seems more likely that they will solicit lies in and effort to destroy someone by “any means necessary” than someone like Kavanaugh is a serial sex offender.