Baseball Youth Clinic Featuring Atlanta Braves' Jason Heyward

Does your child dream of playing major league baseball?

The fifth annual Celebrity Baseball Clinic at Turner Field, sponsored in part by the Atlanta Braves and , takes place Saturday from 9 a.m. until noon and includes these major league baseball players: 

• Jason Heyward – Atlanta Braves, right field
• Dexter Fowler – Colorado Rockies, center field
• Rickie Weeks – Milwaukee Brewers, second base

Players age 8-16 are welcome. The clinic cost is $250 per player.

For tickets and more information, visit www.Lead2Legacy.org.

L.E.A.D., a local nonprofit organization designed to provide inner-city kids with a path to higher education through baseball, is holding the Celebrity Clinic.

About L.E.A.D.

L.E.A.D. (Launch. Expose. Advise. Direct.) is the country’s first instructional play program for inner-city youth. Launched in 2007 by C.J. Stewart and his wife Kelli, the nonprofit organization is aimed at positively impacting the number of inner-city middle and high school aged youth playing competitive baseball and preparing them to compete for college baseball scholarships. L.E.A.D. uses baseball to transform communities via the four pillars of the program: excellence in academics, athletics, service/civic engagement and exposure. Since its inception in 2007, 100 percent of L.E.A.D. Ambassadors have gone to college and 89 percent have received baseball scholarship offers.