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09-06-2005, 08:20 PM
Schillings care for family from New Orleans
September 6, 2005
BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and wife Shonda paid to fly a New Orleans family of nine to Boston and pledged to provide them with housing for a year.
The Fields family, with seven children between the ages of 5 and 12, fled New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina struck. They spent the past week at an Atlanta hotel with the help of a charitable organization.
``When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation,'' Shonda Schilling told The Boston Globe. ``We decided we wanted to bring an entire family here and put them up.''
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The families connected through a Web site, openyourhome.com, which matches displaced families with people willing to house them. The Schillings registered Friday and on Saturday anonymously arranged for the family to fly to Boston.
``He said, 'I would like to help you,''' Efrem Fields, 31, told The Globe in a phone interview from his hotel. ``He didn't say who he was.''
Fields and his wife, Shelita, 28, and their kids met the Schillings at the hotel. Fields said his new friend looked familiar.
``I said 'Wait a second, I know this guy,''' said Fields, a baseball fan. ``Schilling ... Schilling, there's only one Schilling I know, and he's a baseball player. It blew my mind.''
September 6, 2005
BOSTON (AP) -- Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling and wife Shonda paid to fly a New Orleans family of nine to Boston and pledged to provide them with housing for a year.
The Fields family, with seven children between the ages of 5 and 12, fled New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina struck. They spent the past week at an Atlanta hotel with the help of a charitable organization.
``When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation,'' Shonda Schilling told The Boston Globe. ``We decided we wanted to bring an entire family here and put them up.''
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The families connected through a Web site, openyourhome.com, which matches displaced families with people willing to house them. The Schillings registered Friday and on Saturday anonymously arranged for the family to fly to Boston.
``He said, 'I would like to help you,''' Efrem Fields, 31, told The Globe in a phone interview from his hotel. ``He didn't say who he was.''
Fields and his wife, Shelita, 28, and their kids met the Schillings at the hotel. Fields said his new friend looked familiar.
``I said 'Wait a second, I know this guy,''' said Fields, a baseball fan. ``Schilling ... Schilling, there's only one Schilling I know, and he's a baseball player. It blew my mind.''