CLEVELAND The lost boy listened as the superstar spoke.
One day in the summer of 2022, José Ramírez was telling the kids in the local Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program about the importance of education, of perseverance, of focus. And as Ramírez told his story of growing up
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“I credit Jackie Robinson to one of the main reasons why I’m able to play the game of baseball.”
Triston McKenzie made it clear to a group of local eighth-grade students just how important Robinson was in his career. McKenzie explained Tuesday morning the impact that Robinson made on the game and in society, paving the way for people of color to play baseball. And now, McKenzie is becoming a trailblazer of his own.
Over the last three months, McKenzie has taken time to Zoom with Cleveland Metropolitan School District eighth-graders as part of the True2U mentoring program, which allows mentors to share what they have learned throughout their careers and guide students on a course for success as they begin the transition from middle school to high school. And because Tuesday was scheduled to be his last call with the group, he wanted to make sure that the theme of the meeting was something most important to him: Robinson.