Playing Ball With Education

Baseball Strickland Youth Center Former Major League Baseball players toured different Mobile County schools looking to motivate youngsters.

by Chad Petri

Published: Fri, October 16, 2009 - 4:33 pm CST Last Updated: Fri, October 16, 2009 - 4:37 pm CST

MOBILE, Alabama - Mobile County School kids are getting life lessons from former Major League Baseball players. Retired ballplayers Jim "Mudcat" Grant and Cleon Jones toured different schools around Mobile today, 10/16/09. I caught up with them at the Strickland Youth Center. This was an event put on by the Tommie Agee Foundation. The players say it's a chance to get kids motivated for a better education.

“We like to motivate them to look for a better life for themselves so if we can do that as MLB players we're very happy to do that all over this country,” says Jim “Mudcat” Grant. The players also visited the Mobile County Training School and Whitley Elementary. The Tommie Agee Foundation is a local non-profit that boosts other Gulf Coast charities.

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rmseek1234 Says:

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:41 pm

Great story. But you do know we have other retired MLB players that contribute tirelessly to their communities too,right? Anytime someone can be a positive inspiration to another though,it is a good thing…regardless of your career choice.