In the 80's, MLB treated kids to an instructional baseball TV show complete with skill drills, major league stars and some goofy guests.
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For baseball-loving kids of the early to mid-1980s The Baseball Bunch was a vicarious thrill. The charming half-hour children’s show ran from 1981 to ’85, mostly on NBC-syndicated stations. It almost always featured a major league player as a guest star, who would team up with host Johnny Bench and the San Diego Chicken to have fun and teach a team of kids the game’s fundamentals.