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Toros Welcome RBI Softball Clinic to Carson

Carson, CA -- Cal State Dominguez Hills head coach Jim Maier, his staff and the 2008 softball team played host to approximately 200 girls from 20 high schools in the greater Los Angeles area yesterday, as the RBI Softball Clinic made CSUDH's Toro Diamond home for a morning and early afternoon.
   
The event, which promotes RBI Softball and its relationship with CSUDH, exposed high school student-athletes to softball at different levels, including travel ball and college softball.  It also familiarized participants with RBI academic enhancements, focusing on SAT prep classes, academic contests and scholarship availabilities.
   
Founded by John Young, the RBI Clinic is now in its 19th year of existence, and offers an overall academic and athletic learning experience to girl softball players.  Sunday's event was attended by 20 high school softball teams including Carson, Washington, Crenshaw, Long Beach Jordan, Los Angeles Jordan, Lincoln, Marshall and King Drew High Schools.
   
“Jim Maier is one of the top softball coaches in the country, and we're very fortunate at RBI that what we have with Cal State Dominguez Hills is like an outreach program through softball, which has really enhanced our program,” begins Young.  “His girls not only work with our girls on softball-related items, but also with life skills and social skills.  In fact, we're trying to have our official life skills program run through the softball program here, so it's really been a fantastic relationship, and it really adds to our credibility to have someone like Jim so committed to RBI.  It's really made our softball program one of the top programs in the country.”
    
A former Major League baseball player, scout, and executive who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, Young founded RBI to provide disadvantaged youth an opportunity to learn and enjoy the game of baseball. 

The Irvine resident, who made his Major League Baseball debut with the Detroit Tigers in 1971 after leading Chapman College to the 1968 NCAA D-II Baseball Championship, decided that the best way to revive baseball in South Central LA would be to introduce a comprehensive youth baseball program designed to not only encourage participation and expand the pool of talented scouting prospects, but, more importantly, provide these young people with a positive, team-oriented activity that would keep them off the streets while challenging their bodies and minds as well.
   
Since its inception in 1989, the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program has grown from a local program for kids in South Central Los Angeles to an international campaign encompassing over 185 cities and over 150,000 girls and boys.

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(Additional information courtesy of www.rbilosangeles.com)
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