SCORE International is a ministry to expose people to short term missions.

The purpose of SCORE International is to Evangelize, Encourage missionaries, and Equip participants to do the work of foreign missions.

Our goal is to produce career missionaries and/or create greater partnerships between local churches in the USA and foreign missionaries.

John Zeller Visits the Yankees

Andy Pettitte and John Zeller pose before the Yankees game on Thursday night.

Andy Pettitte and John Zeller pose before the Yankees game on Thursday night.

John Zeller, Executive Vice President of SCORE International, traveled to New York the last weekend the Yankees played at the Yankees Stadium in September 2008. “SCORE has a good connection with the Yankees, and I wanted to touch base with Andy Pettitte and some of the other players about our November Baseball Outreach in the Dominican Republic,” said Zeller. “Plus, I’m a diehard Yankee fan and wanted to see one more game in the old stadium.”
Many diehard fans cherished that last weekend of home games in “The House that Ruth Built.” The 85-year-old baseball cathedral opened with Babe Ruth hitting a home run in April 1923, it hosted 35 World Series, and it closed Sunday night with Andy Pettitte pitching a win.
During a 65-minute pre-game ceremony, all the greats were remembered. First baseman Tino Martinez said it was really emotional—especially in the locker room before the game. As Mickey Mantle’s son, David, suited up where his Dad had dressed before games, Martinez said, “I thought about all the history of the building, and I got emotional.”
Captain Derek Jeter gave the final words encouraging fans to take old memories, make new ones at the new stadium, and pass them both from generation to generation.
“It’s the nature of life,” commented Zeller as he remembered being in the stadium for one last game. “Life is about changes.” Everything wears out and eventually dies, but new life and new memories will spring up.