Inside MLB’s Dream Series, where 7 Illinois high school baseball players spent 4 days at the annual showcase for diversity programs

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Day weekend in January, 80 of the nation’ s top amateur baseball players— including seven from Illinois— attended Major League Baseball’ s Dream Series at Tempe Diablo Stadium, the spring training home of the Los Angeles Angels. “It was born from a conversation in an article Dave Stewart had with Bob Nightengale in USA Today regarding the lack of Black pitchers and...

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