JEFF IDELSON OBSERVES: ‘Grassroots’ Clinics Lure Youngsters Back To Baseball By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – During one of his clinics in Chicago, Grassroots Baseball co-founder Jeff Idelson got to see first-hand how baseball can change a life. “We were at the Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago and Goose Gossage was playing catch with a young boy,” he said. “This kid had never put a glove on, and afterwards, his older brother came over…
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LETTER from KEVIN GRADY Want To Revive Baseball? Make It Kid-Centric Again To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity.…