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North Philly coaches feel overlooked by MLB’s decision to not invest in their baseball programs

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By Colin Evans
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
When a panel of baseball representatives discussed how to revive the sport in North Philadelphia at a Temple University event last August, Tyrone Young was the first person in the audience to stand and ask a question. “How can we sit at the table that y’all want to put together so we can help make the decisions,” Young, who runs the North Philadelphia Heritage League, asked the panel composed of the MLB and Phillies leadership.
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MLB’s RBI program has begun to revive baseball among children in cities. In Philadelphia, it lacks diversity.

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By Colin Evans
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
In the 1980s, baseball scout John Young noticed a declining share of Black or Latino draft prospects in his hometown of Los Angeles. With funding from Major League Baseball, he started a youth program dubbed “Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities” (RBI) to address the disparity in 1989. RBI has since spread across the country, including Philadelphia, as baseball’s preeminent youth outreach program.
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New study finds access to youth sports is unequal in Philadelphia. The city looks to change that.

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By Colin Evans
| The Philadelphia Inquirer Verified
Before the first pitch is thrown, Tyrone Young arrives early to the baseball field at Hunting Park to pick up trash in both dugouts where teenagers gather to play in North Philadelphia’s Heritage Baseball League. The trash is what he can control. What he can’t fix are the deep holes on the base paths that make it nearly impossible to play when it rains. He believes race has something to do with the condition of his field. “Certain fields you might go in the Northeast ...
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