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Comedy night will raise funds for Steven Domalewski’s continued medical needs

Friends of Steven is a group dedicated to supporting the recovery efforts of Steven Domalewski, who was rendered severely handicapped following a sporting accident in June 2006. This marks the third event of its kind to benefit the Domalewski family, who’ve incurred enormous medical bills since the incident. Positive feedback of the previous outings prompted [...]

Directions to Comedy Night 3

Below are directions to our Comedy Night 3 event at St. Gerard’s (St. Joseph’s Rec Center). We recommend using these directions and not MapQuest/Google Maps/GPS. 1. From Route 46, Totowa area: Take Route 46 East or West to Union Blvd., Totowa, Paterson exit. ** Take Union Blvd. north 7 traffic lights and turn left onto [...]

Steven Domalewski in Prom Tuxedo

Steven attended a prom hosted by the Passaic County Elks Cerebral Palsy High School. He’s looking so good in his tuxedo that I had to share a couple pictures. Steven lately, has been making very noticeable improvements. Over the course of the new year, Steven did 40 consecutive hyperbaric treatments, two new medicines have been [...]

Domalewski Continues Progressing

Amidst a damp overcast morning, supporters set out to participate in a benefit walk at Rifle Camp Park, in Woodland Park, for Steven Domalewski, a young township boy left severely handicapped following an incident during a baseball game five years ago. In 2006, while pitching for the Wayne PAL, Domalewski was hit directly in the [...]

Hundreds Walk For Steven

Steven Domalewski went to the prom this year. Going to the prom is something that most teenagers probably take for granted. But for Domalewski, it is a testament to how far he’s come in five years. Domalewski got out of a car and walked up to the crowd at the annual Walk for Steven Sunday [...]

June 12, 2011 – Walk for Steven

The YM-YWHA of North Jersey Walk for Steven Domalewski will be on June 12, 2011 at 9am. The walk will be held at Rifle Camp Park in Woodland Park (formely West Paterson) New Jersey. More details to follow

Thank You From the Domalewski Family

Dear Family and Friends, Click here to view a PDF file of our Thank You. Your prayers, love, and support for Steven’s recovery means so much to us. Love, Nancy, Joe, Arlene, Jimmy and Steven Domalewski

Knights give Domalewskis a night out on the town

Benevolence comes in many forms and it seems as if the residents of Wayne Township are rich in philanthropy when it comes to the outpouring of support for the Domalewski family. Steven, while pitching in a Wayne PAL baseball game, was standing just 45 feet from home plate when he was struck in the chest [...]

Martha’s Vineyard Raffle Winner

Congratulations To The Giammetta Family of Wayne, NJ!

Steven Domalewski Steps Toward Recovery

What’s New: Steven Domalewski, disabled in a 2006 baseball accident, can now take steps around his Wayne home with help from his father. He no longer needs the medicine that stopped painful muscle spasms. And a pump, implanted to deliver muscle relaxant directly to his spinal cord six months after he was injured while pitching [...]

Family of Boy Hit By Baseball Holds onto Hope

She wraps her arms around her son, gently raising the spindly 14-year-old boy off a couch to his feet. She hugs him and rubs his back, whispering “I love you” over and over. Steven Domalewski moves his head to kiss his mother, but all he can manage are slurping sounds in front of her lips. [...]

New York City Council Approves Ban on Metal Bats

The New York City Council passed a bill today banning the use of metal bats in high school baseball games, securing enough votes to override a potential veto by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and setting up a possible legal challenge from the metal bat industry. Industry officials, who opposed the bill, said they believed the [...]

Council Moves Toward Ban on Metal High School Bats

New York City would become one of the first cities in the country to prohibit the use of metal bats in high school baseball games, under a bill that a City Council committee approved yesterday and that the full Council is considered all but certain to pass tomorrow. The issue has sharply divided youth baseball [...]

Eight Months After a Life-Changing Injury, a Homecoming

The painters finished retouching the kitchen last week. An electrician was in the basement. The hospital bed arrived Monday and was placed in Steven Domalewski’s new room. “Once Steven comes home, it’s going to be a madhouse,” Marie Fullerton, his aunt, said earlier this week. Much has been done, and yet much more must be [...]

A-Rod to Lead Stadium Honor For Hurt Hurler

A New Jersey Little League player who was seriously injured during a game will be honored at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night by his hero, Alex Rodriguez. But 12-year-old Steven Domalewski, still fighting to recover from the line drive that slammed into his chest, sending him into a rare form of cardiac arrest on June 6, [...]

Do Metal Bats Pose A Greater Risk?

Metal baseball bats were first produced in the 1970s, as an economical alternative to traditional wooden bats, which needed to be replaced every time one broke. But as The Early Show’s Dr. Emily Senay reports, today’s metal bats, often made with high-tech alloys, go a step beyond their aluminum ancestors. Some say the new bats [...]

Strides for Injured Li’l Leaguer

The 12-year old New Jersey boy whose heart stopped briefly when a line drive slammed into his chest during a baseball game sat up in bed for the first time – marking the most significant step yet in his amazing recovery. Steven Domalewski was pitching in a Police Athletic League game last month in Wayne, [...]

Baseball; An Issue of Life or Death

On a July night three years ago, a line drive rocketed off a metal bat and smashed into the left temple of Brandon Patch, an 18-year-old American Legion pitcher in Montana. Within hours, he was dead. In April 2005, a line drive off a metal bat slammed into the temple of Bill Kalant, a 16-year-old [...]

Hit in Chest by Line Drive, a 12-Year-Old Player Remains in a Coma

When Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez called 12-year-old Steven Domalewski, his father, Joe, answered. Steven, Domalewski’s youngest son, has been in a coma at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., since his resuscitation early last month after a line drive to the chest off a metal bat stopped his heart. But on July [...]

Balancing Play and Safety

The ball fields at Commack Park were filled with Little League baseball teams practicing for the tournament season one day in late June. The parents were getting ready, too. “I love this game,” Valerie Monroy said as she watched her 10-year-old son, William, go through infield drills with his teammates. “I think it’s so cute.” [...]

Team of Docs Playing Heart Heroes

STEVEN Domalewski, the New Jersey Little Leaguer whose heart stopped when a line drive slammed into his chest, has some angels in his outfield. Today, a team of elite doctors from Philadelphia, Washington and New York is going to try to help Steven. “They’re going to evaluate him to see if he’s a candidate for [...]

Ban Metal Bats?

There’s risk inherent in almost every sport we play, even baseball. Recently a 12-year-old boy pitching in a game in New Jersey was hit in the chest by a line drive. Steven Domalewski’s heart stopped for several minutes, and he’s been in the hospital ever since, fighting for his life. A state assemblyman decided a [...]

A Move to Ban Aluminum Bats in New Jersey

TRENTON, June 22 — A New Jersey lawmaker introduced a bill on Thursday that would prohibit the use of metal bats in youth and high school baseball leagues. The bill comes less than three weeks after a 12-year-old pitcher from Wayne was seriously injured when he was hit in the chest by a line drive. [...]

Flicker of Hope for Li’l Leaguer

WITH HIS FAMILY praying that he rallies from a freak ballgame accident that stopped his heart, a New Jersey Little Leaguer was showing “flickerings of hope” yesterday. Steven Domalewski remained in a coma, but continued to display the feisty spirit that has made him an ace pitcher at the age of 12. “We just don’t [...]

Boy in coma after line drive to chest

WAYNE, N.J. – There was no score in the fourth inning when 12-year-old Steven Domalewski took the mound on Tuesday night to try to help send his team to the playoffs. The batter hit a line drive to Steven’s chest, knocking him down and causing his heart to stop for a few minutes as he [...]

Safety of Aluminum Bats Is Being Discussed Again

Bill Kalant never had a chance to get out of the way of the baseball that put him, as doctors told his father, “on the cliff of death.” Kalant’s parents, sitting a few feet away at a game in late April, heard the familiar ping of a ball hitting a metal bat, then an instant [...]

A Line Drive Puts a Boy Into a Coma in New Jersey

WAYNE, N.J., June 9 — There was no score in the fourth inning when 12-year-old Steven Domalewski took the mound here on Tuesday night to try to help send his team to the playoffs. The batter hit a line drive to Steven’s chest, knocking him down and causing his heart to stop for a few [...]