Accounting firm backs baseball's youth program

0 Comments | USA TODAY, June, 2007 | by Mike Dodd

The Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities (RBI) program will get $1million a year from KPMG as part of the accounting/consulting firm's new sponsorship agreement with Major League Baseball. It is the first time the program, designed to increase youth participation in baseball and softball in urban areas, has a presenting sponsor.

MLB said it and KPMG initially will develop pilot programs in 11 cities to enhance RBI with assistance in areas such as fundraising, coaching, site management and its educational/life skills components. Seventeen players from the RBI program were selected in the MLB draft this year, bringing the total number of draftees from the program to more than 150.

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