MLB to fund 30 Jackie Robinson scholarships (Yahoo Sports)

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Major League Baseball will fund 30 four-year Jackie Robinson Foundation scholarships, one for each of the sport's teams, and will contribute $1 million to the project to build a Robinson museum in New York. As part of Tuesday's announcement, MLB said Robinson scholars will mentor people in the sport's youth and community programs with Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities, MLB Urban Youth Academies and Boys & Girls Clubs of America. MLB previously has given more than $15 million to the foundation's scholarship program and for the museum.




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