By The Star Staff
Salinas Mayor Karilyn Bonilla Colón welcomed dozens of participants and fans of the sport of softball for the RBI Women’s Tournament recently.
“The successful Salinas Softball Academy continues to develop girls from the age of five (5) in this sport, in all categories,” the mayor said. “We welcome all teams to our town.”
Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) is an organization dedicated to promoting baseball and softball in the most needy communities in the world. It was founded in 1989 for baseball and expanded to softball in 1991. In general terms, a run batted in or runs batted in (RBI) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for putting the ball in play so that a run is scored (except in certain situations, such as when an error is made on the play).
“In Salinas we promote sports in all its forms, and for all ages,” Bonilla Colón said. “We are always ready to receive teams from around the world to compete and generate new competitive experiences.”
Salinas has the Caney de la Fama, which opened in 1990 with memorabilia and the history of its athletes, dedicated to boxer Ángel “Cholo” Espada, the fourth world champion from Puerto Rico and the first to win a world title on the island.
“But the most important thing is that Cholo gave our town more than 40 years of dedication to the children and young people of the town as a boxing coach,” the mayor noted. “That is how important sport is in Salinas.”
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