Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 16, 2006
Community Outreach

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are helping to revive ball fields in the Tampa-St. Pete area:

Oliver Field is the first field to be refurbished under the Rays Field Renovation Program.

"Given Oliver Field's historical significance to the area and its close proximity to Tropicana Field, it was the perfect place to begin this outreach program," said Matt Silverman, Rays' president, in a release.

Oliver Field is the home field of the St. Petersburg Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities League (RBI), a grassroots outreach program managed by Major League Baseball designed to promote interest in baseball, increase the self-esteem of disadvantaged children and encourage kids to stay in school.

Another example of the Rays new management being better in touch with the surrounding community.


Posted by David Pinto at 04:05 PM | Charity | TrackBack (0)
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