Program Information

What is the Play Smart When It Comes To The Sun^® program?

Play Sun Smart^® is a public education campaign which partners the American Academy of Dermatology (Academy), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) to raise awareness about skin cancer and offer detection and prevention tips for baseball players, team staff and fans. Since the program’s inception in 1999 Academy members have screened more than 19,000 players, coaches, families and staff members have participated in the free skin cancer screenings. From these screenings, Academy dermatologists have detected almost 600 suspicious lesions and there have been more than 9,000 presumptive diagnoses.