Cooperstown Goes to Bat for Bronx Youth

Baseball Hall of Fame’s Education Programs Delivered Weekly This Spring, Thanks to Partnership with Morgan Stanley

(COOPERSTOWN, NY) – For students at PS 279 and the Creston Academy in the Bronx, Cooperstown and baseball’s history have never felt closer, thanks to a partnership between the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and Morgan Stanley.

For the last 10 weeks, students from a cross-section of grades, have learned about the influential role of baseball in a variety of subjects, including cultural diversity, women’s history, civil rights, geography, statistics, geometry, economics, physical science and healthy living. The curriculum has been culled from the Museum’s award-winning educational programs and customized to students in the Bronx, thanks to the generosity of Morgan Stanley and the facilitation by the Workforce Housing Group.

Throughout the spring, students have had bi-weekly videoconference connections with the education team at the Baseball Hall of Fame, to enhance the learning experience and transport eager minds to the home of baseball, some four hours north of the schools, to the pastoral setting of Cooperstown, New York.

“Baseball provides the ideal content for learning a variety of subjects because of its rich history, its complexity and its multi-faceted application,” said Brad Horn, vice president for communications and education for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. “This program connects many students who may have yet to experience all that baseball can offer with Cooperstown, showing both educators and students just how powerful the baseball learning experience can be.”

Programs at PS 279 will conclude the week of April 3, while Creston Academy programs will continue through June 19. The Museum will also collaborate with Morgan Stanley to deliver a similar program to students in Salt Lake City this spring. Current and future collaborations with Morgan Stanley follow the successful pilot program in the summer of 2014 at Kelly Street Project in the Bronx.

For more information about the Hall of Fame’s education programs, please visit baseballhall.org and click onto LEARN.