First-Ever Multi-Site MLB Urban Youth Academy in Philly-
Nearly $3 million will go towards providing free baseball and softball instruction to young people in Philadelphia’s underserved communities through use of the multi-site facility. To date, the project has been supoorted by MLB, the Phillies, the Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF), the City of Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The facility will be called the Philadelphia Phillies MLB Urban Youth Academy and will be located at Richie Ashburn Field Complex in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, and at the Marian Anderson Recreation Center.
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