Athletes have Educational Events

National Basketball Association

Tobias Harris from the Philadelphia 76ERs encourages kids to read more

Source: Dick’s Sporting Goods

Tobias Harris visited a school in Philadephia named Bethune Elementary School as a special guest. Also, he donated $1 million to the school. His main goal was to help students improve their reading skills by not looking at reading as something that’s a chore. Instead, he wants the kids to have fun and be able to enjoy reading. Below, here’s a video of Tobias Harris visiting this school:

Source: ESPN’s twitter page

Major LEague Baseball

DEREK JETER IS A HALL OF FAME PERSON ON AND OFF THE BASEBALL FIELD

Derek Jeter was selected to be in the Baseball Hall Of Fame last week with well over 90% of the votes. He was one of the best leaders and players in not only Yankees history, but also MLB history. He’s also one of the best people off of the baseball field. Derek and his dad founded a non-profit organization named the Turn2Foundation, which helps kids stay focused on school and sports so that they can stay away from drug and alcohol abuse.

Derek Jeter was selected to the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Souce: Derek Jeter’s Turn 2 Foundation’s twitter page.

The Turn2Foundation has given back over $29 million to fund its programs and other companies that do amazing work in the community too. You can read more about Derek Jeter’s Turn2Foundation on his website: https://www.mlb.com/turn-2-foundation

CURTIS GRANDERSON HELPS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN HIS COMMUNITY VIA THE GRAND KIDS FOUNDATION

Curtis Granderson is a MLB player who is a world-class citizen in addition to being a great baseball player. He’s the founder of the Grand Kids foundation, which has helped raise over 35 million meals for kids and has introduced over 2 million kids to the fun sport of baseball.

Here’s a twitter post about Curtis Granderson volunteering to help kids learn more about baseball. Source: Curtis Granderson’s Twitter page.

Also he’s won the 2016 Roberto Clemente award for being such as a positive role model who represents baseball in a very admirable way. He has created a state-of-the-art baseball field at the University Of Illinois at Chicago. It’s a field that’s played on by nearly 10,000 kids every year. Here’s an article on Major League Baseball’s website that talks more about Granderson winning the Roberto Clemente award: https://www.mlb.com/news/curtis-granderson-wins-roberto-clemente-award-c207427120