This past Wednesday was the Oakland Coliseum’s most exciting event.

Squealing groups of happy people. With their cameras ready, the crowds are begging to get a look. Throughout the halls, loud yells of “MVP! MVP!” can be heard.

The superstar was standing inside the old building. Also, baseball had nothing to do with it.

When the Eat. Learn. Play foundation turned three years old, Curry and his wife Ayesha went to an Oakland Athletics game to enjoy. They also took with them more than a thousand Oakland kids who were going to city camps. They also brought life back to the dull Coliseum, making it an exciting and inspiring place to spend the day.

He says this is the guard for the first time in almost six years that the Golden State Warriors will be at the Coliseum. “But I saw J. Cole sing next door last fall.”

At the time, it was Oakland Arena, which is where Curry used to work. Curry still loves Oakland, California, a lot, even though it’s where he now works and where he won another title. to use a cliché, have deep roots in Oakland.

The nonprofit organization Eat. Learn. Play. in Oakland works to improve the lives of kids who don’t have much. The three main parts of the program are exercise, teaching, and diet. The Currys have promised to give seven figures every year to cover costs and make sure that all the money goes straight to programs that help kids.

Like Ayesha Curry put it, it’s all been “a whirlwind.” Our lives have been so busy that we haven’t had time to plant any roots. A lot needs to be done.

They saw a big need in Oakland when they started the foundation three years ago and had big plans for what it would do. But seven months after it was first made available, the pandemic hit, and the demand for them went through the roof.

Neighborhood food banks helped the organization feed needy families, and its fast growth let it learn as it went along, giving millions of meals to kids who had been turned down for school lunches. The group also worked with World Central Kitchen to hire former restaurant workers again before they went out to help the community.

The “learn” pillar has recently become one of the most important parts of the base. The Currys are trying to close the reading gap in Oakland, which has grown because of the plague. 12.5% of Latino kids and 15.4% of Black kids can read at grade level.

To “make a dent there,” as Curry put it.

It has more than 150 “Little Town Libraries,” which are small, free libraries spread out all over Oakland. The group not only gave $850,000 to more than 800 literacy programs, but they also challenged Oakland teachers to raise $1 million. At different events, they use an ELP van to urge people to read, work out, and eat well.

Ayesha was worried that the kids would become too interested in the basketball hoop after they saw the bus for the first time. Still, everyone was very excited when the sides of the bus were raised to show hundreds of books.

Ayesha says the kids were thrilled to see the books and know they could take them home. “There is a model right there for you.”

It may be hard to believe, but Stephen Curry wasn’t always so famous. Over the years, his four championships, many awards, and many features in national ads have made him one of the most famous people in the world.

One Wednesday, he was in charge of the ESPYs. After a week, he was seen at an A’s game giving high fives to grade school kids.

It’s called Eat. Learn. Play, even though Curry isn’t always honest about his fame. The CEO, Chris Helfrich, knows this.

“He hasn’t changed at all, even after all that has happened in the last few months,” Helfrich said. I have no question that we are going in the right direction.

“We’ve noticed a clear increase in the number of people who want to work with us and are willing to collaborate.”

Making a change in the lives of children is what wins, not the Currys.

She said, “Our sponsors and donors really care.” You could say that they are the ones on the ground. They seem to really care about what we do.

That game on Wednesday was a great way to think about the last three years and look forward to what’s to come.

Curry was thirteen years old when he played baseball for the last time. That was before he had to choose a high school major. Mark Kotsay, the manager of the A’s, threw to him during batting practice on Wednesday. He wore his own personalized “night night” T-shirt over his own A’s sweater. The words “Eat Learn Play” were screen printed on the back of the shirt.

He said that the wood bat hurt his hands.

During the Astros’ stay, he talked with Dusty Baker, who used to coach the Giants. Following online comments by Stephen’s old partner Juan Toscano-Anderson making fun of his form, Ayesha and Stephen threw out the first pitch. I thought Curry would lead the crowd in singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during the seventh inning stretch, but the game was going too fast and he had to do press interviews instead.

Instead, he lost his way among the campers’ chairs and almost started a fight while he fist-bumped people and posed for pictures.

As the afternoon went on, each camper ran around the grounds once. Eat, study, and have fun. Give each camper a bag full of treats before they leave.

As they were leaving the Coliseum, they also learned a lot about a basketball hero who can do amazing things.

Besides that, it can do even more amazing things.