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05/12/10
About 30 youth baseball players joined local dignitaries Monday inside the Boys and Girls Club at Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park in Annapolis for the launch of the 2010 Badges for Baseball program. 
Shannon Lee Zirkle — The Capital
Jemarko Nguyen, 8, warms up before a Badges for Baseball game Monday at the Boys and Girls Club. About 300 children and teens will play in the program this summer, on teams coached by officers from the county Sheriff’s Office. The officers also will mentor the youth in hope of steering them away from the influence of street gangs.Find Us On Facebook
Badges for Baseball provides at-risk youth with the opportunity to learn positive behavior from members of law enforcement in hopes of steering the kids from street gangs. "Gangs like to recruit in small numbers, individuals," said Reginald Broddie, head of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County. "Oftentimes when the Sheriff's Office comes into our community, they are coming in to evict. The...
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