Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy

Located nine miles away from the Great American Ball Park is the P&G Cincinnati Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy.

Players who have attended the Academy include Anthony Gose, Khris Davis,[2] Trayvon Robinson, Aaron Hicks, Efren Navarro, J. P. Crawford, Dominic Smith,[3] Dillon Tate,[4] and Hunter Greene.

[6] The New Orleans Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy opened in 2012 and is located at Wesley Barrow Stadium.

The baseball field features professional-sized artificial turf with a clay pitcher's mound and two fenced bullpens.

[7][8] It provides free, year-round baseball and softball instruction and other educational services for youth from underserved and urban communities throughout southern Louisiana.

[14] The academy is the home of the Georgetown Hoyas and Howard Bison softball teams[15][16] as well as the D.C. Grays of the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League.

[20] As of June 2015[update], additional academies were under development in Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Hialeah, Florida (near Miami); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California.