(Newswire.net — February 23, 2016) — Toronto, ON, Canada – Two legendary Toronto Blue Jays World Series Champions from 1992 and 1993, Kelly Gruber and Mark Eichhorn, are teaming up yet again. This time it’s to share further their commitment to helping others, not only coaching youth, boosting athletic performance and giving motivational speeches, but improving lives for people of all ages and life stages as they forge a longtime partnership with Aroga Worldwide and Aroga Holdings Corp.
These popular Major League Baseball stars will Tour Canada from the east coast to the west coast sharing the greater vision of the Aroga group of companies, their health-enhancing and life improvement products, and Aroga’s commitment to making a meaningful difference in people’s lives. They will also be endorsing as celebrity spokesmen the benefits of Aroga Worldwide’s quantum infused holograms.
Gruber and Eichhorn are joining world record-setting, ultra-distance runner, founder of the Global Friendship Run and Aroga Global Ambassador, Stan Cottrell, in spreading messages and means of hope and help. They will also be assisting Aroga in raising funds for the Global Friendship Run events and its primary beneficiaries, the 143 million orphans and abandoned children in the world.
Commenting on the new relationship, Mr. Grove Bennett, Chairman and CEO of Aroga, said: “At Aroga, we are committed to finding ways of assisting every person to reach goals and obtain an independent lifestyle, whether through our assistive technologies, improving health and wellness, or giveback activities in the community. Our work with Kelly and Mark will assist us in sharing the story of how beneficial Aroga Worldwide’s non-invasive energy holograms can be, whether it’s for increased energy and stamina, pain reduction, or improved sleep. Both Kelly and Mark bring an enormous amount of focus on the work that the Aroga family of companies has been performing, and will assist us further in our outreach activities and in our support of the Global Friendship Run’s orphan initiatives.”
Kelly Gruber, American League Baseball All-Star
Baseball great, Kelly Gruber’s, impact has been widely felt from his stellar baseball years at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, where his number has been retired, to the Toronto Blue Jays and American League acclaim, and now throughout North America helping charities and youth even before “discovering” Aroga.
Probably the most memorable event in his sports career occurred in the 1992 World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays, which the Jays took in six games. Who could forget Kelly Gruber’s stellar diving tag on Deion Sanders’ foot in the fourth inning of Game 3?
It should have been the third out in a triple play, only the second such play in World Series history, but despite photographic evidence confirming the out, the second-base umpire ruled Braves’ runner Sanders safe. Nevertheless, and in spite of tearing his rotator cuff on that play, the fair-haired favorite, Gruber, hit a home run in the eighth inning to tie the game, and the Blue Jays went on to win.
Yes, this AL All-Star has come a long way since first leaving Texas. A first round draft pick in 1980 by the Cleveland Indians, he went to the Toronto Blue Jays in the “Rule 5 draft” in December 1983, saw his first Major League play in April 1984, and earned an everyday spot with the Blue Jays in 1987. Then on April 16, 1989, Gruber was the first Blue Jay in history to “hit for the cycle” when he got four hits in six at-bats with six RBI and four runs scored. His cycle: home run, double, triple, single. The rest is history.
In Gruber’s best season, 1990, his hitting average was .274, including 31 home runs, 118 RBIs and 14 stolen bases. That year he won the Gold Glove and Silver Slugger awards and placed fourth in the League’s MVP balloting. He is also considered by many as perhaps the best third baseman in Blue Jay history.
Yet Gruber contends his best game has not yet been played. The playing field is different now, but the “game of life” is an ever bigger one. And he’s still a winner. Sure, a 1993 spinal bone spur threatened paralysis and ended his baseball career. But the surgery was successful, and “Xanthos” (so called by the Toronto media because of his flowing blonde hair) is still sharing winning strategies and good health tactics with people across Canada and beyond.
Gruber stays quite busy these days making public appearances as a motivational speaker for charitable organizations, holding baseball seminars throughout North America, and now proclaiming the health and performance benefits he derives from the energy holograms provided by Aroga Worldwide. He seeks to help people throughout the continent, and this new relationship with Aroga to share its life-enhancing products, services and programs, in collaboration with Mark Eichhorn, is a perfect match.
Mark Eichhorn, Blue Jay Great
A native Californian from San Jose, Mark Eichhorn shares his Toronto Blue Jays teammate, Kelly Gruber’s, focuses on youth, health and vitality, and joins him in embracing the Aroga vision and products. Currently, he helps out at “Kelly Gruber’s Baseball Camps” and coaches a high school baseball team in California.
Eichhorn, rated a “Top 55 All-Time Greatest Blue Jay,” is best known for his side arm, “submarine” type pitches and for his remarkable success as an all-purpose reliever for any situation. Interestingly, his pitching style caused a huge split in his stats; righties couldn’t hit him at all, while lefties did pretty well against him. One admirer on YouTube said, “They used to call his pitch the Frisbee pitch.”
In 1986, achieving the best ever season for a Blue Jay relief pitcher, he pitched in 69 games, threw an amazing 157 innings and finished with an outstanding 1.72 ERA, a season record 14-6 and 10 saves. He gave up only 105 hits in those 157 innings, striking out 166 while walking 45. Fangraphs has him at a 5.3 WAR that year. The Sporting News selected him as the Rookie Pitcher of the Year. He also finished 6th in Cy Young voting and 3rd in Rookie of the Year voting.
In 1987, Eichhorn made the most appearances and faced the most batters of any American League reliever. He was injured in 1988, but went on to pitch in a short stint with the Atlanta Braves before the Angels signed him as a free agent. Eichhorn had 2-1/2 good seasons there, and appears on the “Halos Haven Top 100 Angels” list. But Toronto got him back late July 1992 in time to make his mark in the World Series. In the two World Series wins for the Blue Jays (1992 and 1993), Eichhorn pitched an average 4.1 shutout innings over 4 games.
Like his friend and teammate, Kelly Gruber, Mark Eichhorn is enthusiastic about the new relationship with Aroga Worldwide, saying: “I am devoted to helping others live better, healthier, easier lives, and Aroga’s products do just that. They will not only help the kids I coach and their parents, but people everywhere. So I am excited about this new endeavor with Kelly and Aroga, the opportunity for us to help potentially hundreds of thousands of people across Canada and the United States, and about helping however I can with Stan Cottrell, the Global Friendship Run, and its direct support for the world’s orphans.”
Aroga, Improving Quality Of Life
Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Aroga Holdings Corp.’s (www.Arogacorp.com) family of companies are 100% committed to a vision of improving quality of life, health and wellness, and to the overall quality of education systems for each and every person. The name, Aroga, even means “healthy” or “well” in Sanskrit.
A publicly traded company, Aroga Holding Corp. is listed on the OTC and can be found on the EDGAR filing platform. Its Chairman, Grove Bennett, announced that in the second quarter 2016, Aroga will be launching its own ticker symbol for this dividend-bearing stock.
Under Bennett’s leadership, Aroga has become an exciting company to watch, especially as more sports and health-oriented celebrities such as Cottrell, Gruber and Eichhorn embrace its vision. Bennett has structured Aroga’s family of seven synergistic companies to foster collective sharing and collaboration, positioning Aroga well to advance this vision.
Its subsidiary focuses include health, wellness and personal financial growth through Aroga Worldwide and its energy holograms, accessible education platforms with the Aroga Academy, and improved education lifestyle with Aroga Technologies, Canada’s largest independent distributor of Assistive Technology products and services. Aroga’s information technology infrastructure is poised to support this group of companies and many more with Aroga Starnix, a 16-year-old IT company focused on Linux and open source development, as well as its access to global software and hardware distribution through the Google agreement in Aroga Proximita.
Aroga Worldwide, Supporting Orphans
Aroga Worldwide will also be making contributions from sales of its energy holograms to the Global Friendship Run for the world’s orphans, working through Aroga’s Global Ambassador, Stan Cottrell, ultra-distance world record-holding runner, founder of the “friendship run” concept and the multi-year Global Friendship Run. In addition to all else, Aroga sees the new alliance with Kelly Gruber and Mark Eichhorn as a means to further that goal, helping save precious children from dire conditions and from future sex trafficking and crime.
The company encourages public direct contributions to this orphan effort through http://give.mobi/run. As part of this multi-year, worldwide initiative and in coordination with teams of business, civic, governmental, evangelical and charitable entities, Stan Cottrell will be anchoring 500-mile relays in Ethiopia and Malawi this May, along with orphans outreach, motivational speaking and other events. Aroga will be there in support.