American Diabetes Association's Northern New Jersey Market has announced that Sparky Lyle, a Major League Baseball Cy Young Award winner (1977) and Manager Emeritus of the Somerset Patriots, will join Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes as the Corporate Recruitment Chair. Lyle, who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, will drive fundraising and raise awareness around three events in New Jersey.

The Step Out fundraisers will take place Sept. 28 at BD in Franklin Lakes, Oct. 11 at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater, and Oct. 19 at Novo Nordisk in Plainsboro.