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Atlanta Travel Baseball Team Embark on Humanitarian Mission to Puerto Rico
ATL METRO RBI is poised to give new meaning to the term travel ball, as much of youth league baseball today is played on travel baseball teams. At least the elite players are on teams that travel a few miles, and in some cases several thousand miles, to compete against other elite baseball players. Travel ball is all about baseball and acquiring elite baseball skills to advance to collegiate and professional play.
This year, during the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday celebration (January 18–21), a time when the King family has urged the nation “to make it a day of service,” 16 young men ages 13–15 will travel to Puerto Rico on a humanitarian mission.
On their mission, ATL METRO RBI will participate in two professional style showcases and two nine-inning games, and with the help of Mizuno, a leading outdoor and sporting goods company, these young men will deliver aid in the form of baseball equipment to teams in Aguadilla and Carolina, Puerto Rico. The equipment will replace baseballs, bats, shoes, and gloves destroyed two years ago when Hurricane Maria ravished the island.
