SJP Baseball Donates Equipment to Francisville Rec Center - CBS3

The Francisville Playground in North Philadelphia hit a home run thanks to the kindness of its neighbors.

For the second straight year, St. Joseph's Preparatory School is stepping up to the plate in its community by donating new and gently used baseball equipment to the Francisville Recreation Center.

"There's youth and development that has needs," St. Joe's Prep baseball coach Bobby Muth said. "So they go and run out and do whatever we can to spend our resources for the attributes on this local community."

"It's great to be able to wake up and have the opportunity to play baseball every day and give back to people who also want to pursue that dream to play baseball who don't have that much," William Ward, a junior third baseman at St. Joe's Prep, said, "to be able to give to them and allow them to have that opportunity."

The players collected the equipment themselves, which includes more than 100 bats, baseballs, helmets, bags and more. All of this so children in the neighborhood can have the opportunity to play the game they love.....

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