Twenty-eight years ago today, a scared cat found her way onto the field during a televised Oakland Athletics game in Oakland. The rest, as they say, is history.
Posted by Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation on Monday, May 7, 2018
On May 7, 1990, a scared cat ran onto the field during an Oakland Athletic’s baseball game. The entire game was being televised, so the whole world saw this cat run all across the field before making her way to the dugout.
That’s when the A’s manager, Tony La Russa, decided to take the stray cat in and named her Evie. Before deciding on keeping her, Tony and his wife looked at local shelters and discovered that there were no no-kill shelters in their area. So Tony and his wife kept Evie and decided to open their own shelter, Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation.
This incredible organization has saved over 38,000 animals who would’ve been put down at kill shelters. But it all started with one scared cat running onto the field of a ball game. What an incredible story!