Michael Rubin said he woke up in the middle of the night last week with an idea. The owner of Fanatics, a top retailer of officially licensed sports apparel, Rodney Miller Jr. Jersey wanted his Pennsylvania factory to halt production ofMLB jerseysand begin producing facemasks and gowns to donate to those fighting COVID-19.

He wrotein a Twitter thread Thursday that Pennsylvania Gov.Tom Wolf and state Attorney General Josh Shapiro had each called him to say they "desperately needed help getting masks and gowns to the frontline workers acro s Pennsylvania." Now, the company is beginning production of those masks and gowns Anthony Mack Jersey with the material the company uses to make the jerseys.

(Thread):Woke up in the middle of the night last week with idea of converting our factory in PA that makes official jerseys into a facility that makes much needed masks and gowns and then donating them to help fight this horrendous virus.

Rubin saidthat his Duke Johnson Jersey company's Easton, Pa., factory .He that Fanatics"plan(s) to make one million masks and gowns and then immediately donate and Miami Hurricanes College Jersey distribute them to hospitals and emergency management personnel acro s Pennsylvania with the goal of extending this to New Jersey and New York, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States."

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Rubin is also a co-owner ofthe NBA's 76ers and the NHL's Devils, who were moving ahead with plans this week toreduce the pay of certain employees for both teams byup to 20 percent., Rubin was"upset" and "outraged" over his partners' decision.Co-owner Josh Harris Braxton Berrios Jersey subsequently rescinded the move and i sued .

"To me, if you dont get something right, the biggest thing you need to do is recognize it and fix it,". "Whether I'm involved or indirectly involved, I screw things up all the time. The most Anthony Lawrence II Jersey important thing is if you dont get it right, youve got to fix it immediately and I'm proud of the way the organization said, You know what? We didnt have it right and were going to get it right.'"