ST. LOUIS -- D.C. Grays Baseball and Major League Baseball have partnered to bring the RBI program back to Washington, starting this summer.
The Grays, an homage to the former Negro Leagues team the Homestead Grays, have fashioned themselves as ambassadors for baseball within the community for D.C., specifically with an effort to increase participation within the African-American community. They have held a series of free camps and clinics in the past, but this year will introduce seven teams, which will operate under the D.C. Grays RBI umbrella.
There will be five baseball teams and two softball teams, all about middle-school age and above, that will play at least a seven-game schedule this summer and will include a travel team for each sport.