Reviving Baseball in Inner-cities' is giving city youth across America a chance to realize their potential. The program run by baseball teams across the United States is teaching youth about baseball, the discipline needed for achievement and pushing for academic excellence. 100,000 youth have gone through the program since it started in 1989 and 170 youth have gone on to play professionally because of it.

"It forces the belief, that there is a lot of un-tapped potential baseball players," said Jim Riggleman, the Manager of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team. Others have pushed their way through college and are in the workforce after going through the program.

"Not everyone's gonna play professional baseball but it gives them an opportunity to get outside of their environment and do something with their lives," said Manager of Harrisburg Senators, Tony Beasely.

The Harrisburg Senators are raising money to start the program in Harrisburg. Saturday night's first annual Hot Stove Dinner invited fans and supporters to raise money through raffles and auctions for the program.

"We got this dinner together and got everyone behind it, it has been wonderful and it's great to see this on the ground floor," said David Simpson who went through the program as a teenager and now works for the Senators.