How I Got Here with Corey Koskie

Reviving Baseball in the Inner Cities, Major League Baseball's RBI program is having an impact on young inner-city men's lives. Ron Hayward is on dialysis 9 hours a night hoping for a donor and coaching at-risk youth. He tells his story of being raised on the streets of Jersey City, getting drafted by the Cincinnati Reds, deciding to go to college, and now coaching kids through MLB's RBI program.

In 1995 Corey Koskie had a breakout season playing for the Fort Wayne Wizards of the Midwest League. He didn't want that season to end. Corey describes how playing baseball without a break between seasons led to a very disappointing 1996 season. Listen as Corey talks about the danger of not taking time off between seasons.

In 1994, Corey Koskie was drafted by the Minnesota Twins and is shipped to Elizabethton, Tennessee to start his professional baseball career. He shares a story of his first couple of weeks playing professional baseball.