Denver Baseball Field To Get Face Lift: ‘We Hope Kindness Trickles Down'

By Dillon Thomas, CBS Denver:

DENVER (CBS4) – With the MLB All Star Game scheduled to fill the seats at Coors Field next month, so too comes the opportunity for the Denver metro area to improve courtesy of Major League Baseball. Through the Legacy Project the MLB has infused nearly $200 million back in to communities since its inception in the late 1990s.

As part of the Legacy Project, John F. Kennedy High School in Denver will be the home of the newest softball and baseball fields in the state. The MLB, Colorado Rockies and Denver Public Schools teamed up to redesign and rejuvenate the school’s dissolving facilities.

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