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Brentwood Youth Wins Trip to MLB All-Star Game as Essay Contest Winner

by ECT

Sharon Robinson

According to Major League Baseball, Krey Elementary fifth-grader Raymond Beasley has been named one of two grand prize winners of the national Breaking Barriers Essay Contest.

Beasley was chosen out of a pool of more than 19,000 applicants from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. He wrote his essay about his determination to thrive after a series operations related to a brain tumor which began as early as four-years-old.

For winning the contest, Beaseley will attend and be introduced at both the All-Star Game in Minnesota and the World Series. Both students — and their teachers — will get a new laptop from Microsoft as part of their award, as will four additional first-prize winners from the contest.

Sharon Robinson, MLB’s educational programming consultant and daughter of Jackie Robinson, helped create the essay contest in 1997, and she will personally meet the winners.

The Breaking Barriers was created in 1997 by Sharon Robinson in conjunction with Major League Baseball and Scholastic, and each year a winner is chosen based on the writer’s eloquence in describing their perseverance in overcoming obstacles or barriers they have faced in their lives. The contest is based on the memory of Jackie Robinson, whose bravery in breaking the sport’s color line will never be forgotten.

Michael Andaloro of Phoenix was the other winner who wrote about the commitment and persistence it takes for him to succeed as the only deaf student at his school.

Source:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/winners-of-2014-breaking-barriers-essay-announced?ymd=20140424&content_id=73203476&vkey=breakingbarriers

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