MOBILE, Ala., April 13, 2010 - Mobile Gas and the Mobile BayBears Professional Baseball Club will dedicate the new Hank Aaron Childhood Home & Museum in GasLight Park, located on the grounds of Hank Aaron stadium and presented by Mobile Gas, on Wednesday, April 14 at 5:00 p.m. CST. Hank Aaron’s childhood home was relocated to GasLight Park in 2008. Over the past 2 years, the BayBears and local companies including Mobile Gas helped restore the Aaron home creating a museum dedicated to Aaron’s legacy.

“There is no greater ambassador for Mobile than Hank Aaron,” said LaBarron McClendon, Vice President of Marketing, Human Resources, and Community Affairs, Mobile Gas. “It’s been our pleasure to play a small role in preserving Mr. Aaron’s legacy in the community.”

The museum will be a permanent feature in GasLight Park. “Since our inception in 1997, the BayBears organization has tried to create a more valuable experience for BayBears fans each year, said Bill Shanahan, President and COO. “Never in the history of our nation has a major league baseball hall of famer’s childhood home been moved to a stadium grounds and restored as a museum. This makes us unique. We are fortunate to have a corporate citizen like Mobile Gas supporting this project,” Shanahan said.

For more information about the Hank Aaron Childhood Home & Museum or the Mobile BayBears, go to www.mobilebaybears.com or call 251-479-2327.

Mobile Gas is a natural gas utility serving approximately 95,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Mobile and the surrounding areas of southwest Alabama. The utility is a unit of Sempra Energy’s Sempra Pipelines & Storage subsidiary. Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE) is a Fortune 500 energy services holding company based in San Diego.

Media Contact: Wes Phillips
Mobile Gas
(251) 450-4799
www.mobile-gas.com

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