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- Updated: August 8, 2016
CINCINNATI — MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred was on hand Monday afternoon to watch the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series championship game for the senior division between the Arizona and Passaic, N.J., RBI teams.
The game, which Arizona won, 3-2, is part of what has been an extremely successful youth initiative for MLB.
“It’s the single most important thing that we’re doing,” Manfred said. “This is part of a larger initiative that we refer to as Play Ball, and it’s directed in ensuring that baseball gets passed on to the next generation so that we have fans like we have today 20 years from now. It’s about our future.”
Manfred addressed a wide array of topics during his visit to the P&G Cincinnati Urban Youth Academy, from Ichiro Suzuki’s 3,000th hit to the Olympics.
• Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities World Series coverage
“The fact of the matter is the game has changed in terms of the way it’s played, and the question is: Are we going to …
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