students aid local youth league

youth baseball receives assistance from college students

Public policy majors Jared Weinstein and Adam Grossman have learned a valuable lesson from Tony Brown's "Enterprising Leadership" class last spring.

"Tony is always telling us to take our projects out of the classroom," said Grossman, a junior from Shaker Heights, Ohio. "He says there are no rules. Just take your favorite thing, forget about the problems and work out a way to do it."
A year later, the 2 Duke students have spent untold hours transforming their class project - to help the inner-city Durham Bulls Youth Athletic League become self-sufficient - into reality.
As for the 2 students, both big baseball fans, their hope is they will create enough momentum so that future Duke students will keep their labor of love alive and flourishing long after they graduate next year.
"It would be tragic if this doesn't come to fruition and reach its potential," said Grossman. "It's up to us to get Duke students to continue to operate this"
As a result of their efforts, the league just received a $15,500 grant from Major League Baseball that will provide gloves, bats and other equipment for the more than Five-hundred children, ages 6-15, who play in the league.
 

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