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Steelers Backup QB Runs Youth League

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:47:11 PM
By ALAN ROBINSON

Pittsburgh Steelers backup quarterback Charlie Batch drops back to pass during the teams afternoon practice at their training facility in Latrobe, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005. Batch donates his time, love, knowledge, trust, patience and commitment, and yes, his cash, for six weeks every summer, running a youth basketball program so successful the nearby City of Pittsburgh wants to copy it. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)PITTSBURGH (AP) - Many NFL players donate money to charity, give speeches to youth groups, fund athletic programs or lend a helping hand to a wayward youngster.

To Pittsburgh Steelers backup quarterback Charlie Batch, that's merely a night's work.

Batch, himself a child of the mean streets and a man whose cherished 17-year-old sister, Danyl, was shot to death as an innocent bystander during random gang violence in 1996, gives more than cash or autographs to his hardscrabble hometown of Homestead.


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