PHOENIX -- Other than winning baseball games, there is no greater priority for the D-backs than trying to grow the game of baseball among young people in the state of Arizona.
"Our biggest challenge in Major League Baseball is to make sure that we engage with the younger audience," D-backs team president and CEO Derrick Hall said. "We have to make sure they enjoy the sport, hopefully they participate in the sport and are fans for life."
The D-backs were one of the first to have a youth outreach program and their Baseball Academy has around 2,500 kids go through camps and clinics around the state.