As Major League Baseball takes over the Washington region for the 89th MLB All-Star Game and its accompanying activities, more than baseball is on the schedule. In fact, MLB has enough planned in the eco-friendliness department that the D.C. Council’s recent bill looking to ban plastic straws may look small by comparison.
Take, for example, Friday’s volunteer “greening” community service event at Richard England Clubhouse 14, a Boys and Girls Clubs outpost in Northeast Washington. The league expects more than 100 volunteers — ranging from employees of the league and the Washington Nationals to youth baseball and softball players — to spend their afternoon landscaping, removing trash, painting and repairing benches for the clubhouse.