The Metropolitan League offers a baseball clinic for teens and coaches

The baseball is gaining more and more ground in Argentina and since metropolitan league, the main competition of this sport in our country, actions continue to be generated to promote its development. This weekend there will be a clinic for teenagers and coaches, which will be attended by the American Desi Relaford and Nicaragua Marvin Bernard, two former major league players. The first meeting will be held on Saturday, from 10:00 to 13:00, at the Ezeiza National Baseball Stadium. And the second, Sunday, at the same time, in Japanese Association of La Plata.

More than 300 boys and girls are expected to participate in the event It is free and open to the public. To get annoyed, just send an email to the LMB Secretariat ([email protected]).

The clinic was born from an initiative of the Metropolitan League and thanks to the support of the Major League Baseball players alumniassociation that brings together former MLB players and was founded in 1982 with the aim of promoting the practice of baseball and inspiring and educating young people through a positive image of sport.

This non-profit organization, based in Colorado Springs, USA, responded to an invitation from the Buenos Aires league and joined in the celebration of the event, which caters to the education of players up to 18 years old and also the training of coaches.

The boys who will participate will have the opportunity to share a training session and learn about the experiences of two players who have been able to play at the highest levels of world baseball.

Desi Relaford defended the jerseys of the MLB rangers of Texas, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the real of Kansas City, the sailors of Seattle, the mets from New York, the fathers of San Diego and the Phillies from Philadelphia. During an 11-year major league career, he played every field position except first base and catcher. And since March last year he is the manager of Danville Otterbot of the new League of Appalachia.

Marvin Benard played MLB with the giants for San Francisco from 1995 to 2003. He played in all three outfield positions, but primarily as a center fielder. Today he is the general manager of the Nicaraguan national team, which he eliminated in early October Gauchos from Before the world classic and then got the classification at 2023 classictournament he will play for the first time.