MCLE Auctions Red Sox Playoff
Tickets to Benefit Monroe Inker
Scholarship Fund!

Auction open until 3:00 pm, Thursday, October 1, 2009
Minimum Starting Bid: $4,220

In March, MCLE auctioned a pair of 2009 season tickets to all Boston Red Sox regular season home games, the proceeds from which benefited the Monroe L. Inker Scholarship Fund, which was first established in 2006 to honor the life and work of one of the Commonwealth's most distinguished family law attorneys.  The Monroe L. Inker Scholarship Fund, as a result of successful auctions over the past three years, now endows 30 scholarships every year, in perpetuity - all in Monroe's name.

Now, as the 2009 season approaches its end, the resurgent Red Sox - and Red Sox Nation along with them - are on the verge of another playoff berth.  Once again, MCLE is honored to offer for auction, to the highest bidder, Monroe Inker's pair of Red Sox tickets to all home playoff games (total face value of $4,220).  These are great seats, which Monroe himself occupied for nearly 50 years.  The amount of the winning bid in excess of the face value of the tickets will be designated as a tax-deductible contribution to the Monroe Inker Scholarship Fund.  The details of the bidding are as follows:

Item: Red Sox tickets consisting of 2 seats to all 2009 home playoff games (11 possible games in all)

Location of Seats: Loge Box 116, Section 16, Row HH, seats 3 and 4

First Home Game: To be announced
• Division Series: October 7th or 8th - October 14th, as needed

League Championship Series: October 16th - October 25th, as needed

World Series: October 28th - November 5th, as needed
 • American League team to host Games 1, 2, and, if necessary, 6 and 7

Bidding Ends:  Thursday, October 1st at 3:00 pm

Minimum Starting Bid: $4,220 (face value of tickets)
• This amount includes 2 seats to all possible home games
• If for some unfortunate reason, the Red Sox fail to make the playoffs, the full
  amount of the winning bid will be returned.  However, if the Red Sox make the
  playoffs (regardless of the number of home games played), the amount of the
  winning bid in excess of the face value of the tickets will be retained by MCLE
  for the benefit of the Monroe Inker Scholarship Fund.
• Any refund for unused games (in the amount of the face value of the remaining
  unused tickets) will be forwarded to the winning bidder.

Memories of Fenway at playoff time to cherish forever: Priceless!

To place your bid, please email it to sricciardone@mcle.org.  Bidding will remain open until 3:00 pm on Thursday, October 1, 2009.  The winner will be notified by email immediately thereafter.

Throughout the bidding process, MCLE will post developments in the bidding on its website at www.mcle.org and keep auction participants informed of new high bids as they are received.

Once payment of the winning bid is received, MCLE will deliver the full set of playoff tickets to the winner.

Fending off the feisty Texas Rangers in the wild card race and having put it all together during the last month of the season, the Sox battle it out down the stretch with their eyes on and bats poised for the Fall Classic.  Red Sox fever is running high.  Here's your chance to be part of the action!

This is a wonderful opportunity to honor Monroe, support MCLE's scholarship program, and experience historic Fenway Park during the most magical time of the year!

Sal Ricciardone, Esq.
MCLE Director of Philanthropy

MCLE's named scholarship funds, created with a minimum $25,000 endowment, honor those attorneys and judges whose lives and work exemplify the best of Massachusetts' rich legal heritage and provide essential funding for legal services, pro bono advocacy, and needs-based scholarships to MCLE programs.