• Home Run Readers
• Mathletics
• Fitness Sluggers
• Bay Area All-Star Scholarship Team

Teachers and administrators can enroll in the Oakland A's Home Run Readers Program to work together in promoting the importance of literacy and encourage reading in the classroom. Help your students set reading goals and work toward exciting rewards.

The California Police Youth Charities (CPYC) is a proud sponsor of the Home Run Readers program in an effort to build relationships between the law enforcement community and California youth.

Students who achieve their goals receive:

• Free A's giveaways
• A visit to the school from a member of the A's front office and a police officer from the CPYC.
• An entry into a drawing to be one of six schools visited by an A's player or coach
• An invitation to the Oakland A's Home Run Readers Day at McAfee Coliseum

This year, over 17,000 students in 95 Bay Area schools participated in the A's Home Run Readers program. NASDAQ and Exelixis are supporting sponsors of the Home Run Readers program.

Enrollment for the 2008-09 school year will begin in September.

Have you ever wanted to figure out Rich Harden's ERA or Eric Chavez's batting average? Then join the Ross Dress for Less, and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area /Oakland A's "Mathletics" program. The program consists of mathematics workbooks, for students in grades 1-8, using baseball statistics and their formulas.

One lucky school will receive a visit from an Oakland A's player

You can get the workbooks by either downloading them from the links below.

• Click to download the 1st - 4th grade workbook in PDF format
• Click to download the 5th - 8th grade workbook in PDF format

The Oakland A's are launching a unique health awareness program in 2008 to help combat childhood obesity. The A's Fitness Sluggers Program educates children by implementing healthy eating habits and enjoyable physical activity into their daily routine. Children ages nine through 12 can receive a workbook that contains guidelines on proper nutrition and physical activities. The workbook contains an area where children can log their physical activity as well as their food and drink consumption on a daily basis over a four-week period.

Each child who completes the program will receive a special certificate of completion and 100 of those children will be chosen to participate in a pre-game clinic with the A's strength and conditioning coach and will be honored in an on-field ceremony on Children's Health and Fitness Awareness Day to be held on July 12, 2008 against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

A's Fitness Sluggers workbooks can be obtained by stopping by the A's Community Fund Silent Auction table (behind section 120) during all 2008 weekend home games, by e-mailing community@oaklandathletics.com or you can download it by clicking the link below.

Click to download the Fitness Sluggers workbook: Download Workbook.

The Bay Area All-Star Scholarship Team (BAASST) is a partnership established in 1996 by the Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, Oakland Raiders, San Francisco 49ers, San Francisco Giants and San Jose Sharks. This unique committee is the first of its kind in the realm of professional sports. Each team will honor these students during a special pre-game presentation at their individual venues.

$3,000 scholarships will be awarded to six successful students residing within the Bay Area's nine counties. All public high schools within the vicinity are provided detailed information about this scholarship opportunity. All candidates must meet the following criteria:

• College-bound senior with a minimum GPA of 3.0.
• Display leadership qualities in the classroom and/or inspirational qualities on the athletic field.
• Demonstrate the value of education, good work ethic and community outreach.

The 2008 scholarship recipients:
Oakland A's: Joshua Ortiz - De Anza High School (Richmond)
Oakland Raiders: Lauren Hunt - Calistoga Junior/Senior High School (Calistoga)
San Francisco 49ers: Jasmine Nachtigall - Hillsdale High School (San Mateo)
San Francisco Giants: Elaina Chow - Galileo Academy (San Francisco)
San Jose Sharks: Mohamed Abdalla - Willow Glen High School (San Jose)