Article About Prison Baseball
I came across this really interesting article in the New York times today about a baseball team from San Quentin (the prison near San Francisco). The article describes the benefit to the incarcerated in their rehabilitation through baseball.
One of the big points that really hit me was this:
For almost all the players on the team, it was also in the weeks or months after their final youth baseball seasons that their lives went downhill.
I really do recommend this article.