iReport — When it comes to saving lives with the Florida Collegiate Summer League, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Winter Park Diamond Dawg or a Sanford River Rat. Baseball players, coaches and intern from the leagues six teams all rolled up their sleeves to give the gift of life during a summer league kickoff event.Adam Bates said it was the most impressive blood drive he’s been to in his 18 years as a blood donor.Bates wears a green wristband in honor of Connor Doyle. He’s a young baseball player who recently battled leukemia and needed transfusions.Several donors said they were giving blood in honor of someone they knew who had received a transfusion and others were donating for the first time.Even Florida Collegiate Summer League President Sara Whiting needed a blood transfusion after giving birth to her first child.She says, “It’s a gift not only to the people that will get these blood products, but a gift to me that the league still has that big heart that keeps on giving.”Together Florida’s Blood Centers and the Florida Collegiate Summer League helped save nearly 200 lives!