The RBI Indianapolis Credo

We’re on a mission to save kids...

Save kids from getting into trouble after school and during the summer….when time is plentiful and bad choices easy to find. We use baseball and softball as a tool to Save these Kids….


For our young people we:

  1. •Engage minds and bodies

  2. •Teach sportsmanship, values and ethics

• Mentor a young person through difficult times

• Challenge what can’t be done

• Push to new heights

• Cheer teammates and foes alike

• Forgive errors and mistakes

• Visualize the future

• Strive for success

• Coach baseball and softball skills

• Encourage full effort, every day, every week, every month, every year

We all face barriers in our lives, even Major League Baseball players. MLB’s Breaking Barriers program teaches students the characteristics and values that Jackie Robinson exhibited in his life. The program instructs students on how to use these values to face and overcome the barriers in their own lives. A student once asked: “What is the color barrier?” Baseball’s “color barrier” signifies the period in American history when black- and brown-skinned ballplayers were kept out of the Majors. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, broke through that barrier and opened the door for others to follow. Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life was created to help students understand Jackie Robinson’s legacy of change.


Each RBI player is asked to sign a player contract that commits them to these ideals. RBI will launch a special essay contest later this year. It will be designed to help players express their individual challenges and the ways to overcome them and to commemorate the Robinson legacy and encourage students to express their own experiences.


Click here to download contract

The focus of the RBI Player contract:

Jackie Robinson’s Nine Values:


COURAGE

Doing what you know is the right thing even when it is hard to do

DETERMINATION

Staying focused on a plan even though the path to its
end may be difficult

TEAMWORK

Working with other people toward a common goal

PERSISTENCE

Working toward a goal and continuing to move forward even

though you face obstacles or barriers

INTEGRITY

Sticking to your values, regardless of what others think you should do

CITIZENSHIP

Making a contribution that improves the lives of others

JUSTICE

Treating all people fairly, no matter who they are

COMMITMENT

Making a promise and following through on it

EXCELLENCE

Doing the best that you possibly can

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

—Jackie Robinson