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- Updated: May 21, 2016
ROBBINSDALE, Minn. — When Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game came to Minnesota in 2014, several local baseball fields received funding for renovations. One such field was Lee Park in Robbinsdale.
Two years later, that same field played host to the Play Ball! Minnesota Youth Skills Clinic, hosted by the Twins as part of MLB’s “Play Ball” initiative that began in 2015. Kids at Saturday’s event spent the sun-soaked day learning from local coaches.
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Pat Collins has been a high school baseball coach for more than 30 years and currently coaches at Chisago Lakes High School. For the past five years or so, he’s taught at similar skills clinics like the one he did on Saturday.
“Any time you get a chance to work with kids is a great experience. [They] are our future,” Collins said. “We need to have as many kids playing baseball as we can. To see kids come out, learn a new skill and then have some success and see that big smile light up their world and their parents’ world, …
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