Dennis Kasumba throws an old tire to build strength outside his home in Guyaza, Uganda. While living in poverty, Kasumba tries to salvage trash to help build strength in hopes of playing for a Major ...

Hidden at the end of a narrow, rutted dirt road in central Uganda, wedged between a concrete wall and a hillside dotted with palm trees, is the only baseball academy run by a major league team in ...

Since the 10-day gorilla and chimp trekking excursion Noonan went on Aug. 29 with her good friend Pam Biggs, of Oakland, Bergen County, the ladies realized they wanted to do more for “their family in ...

PITTSBURGH — Long before David Matoma put his signature on a contract to join the Pirates’ minor-league system, he and the club built a long-distance relationship by cell phone. Matoma, a 16-year-old ...

HOUSTON — A baseball game is always in the hands of a pitcher. It’s why we’re focusing on this a University of St. Thomas pitcher's wind-up, as in, "How did he wind up here?" Nick Alumai has spent ...

Back in January, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed 16-year-old right-handed pitcher David Matoma from Uganda during the international signing period. He became just the third Ugandan-born player to sign, ...

Eighteen-year-old Kasumba Dennis has spent years chasing the same dream. He’s wanted to become so good at baseball that the major league won’t be able to ignore him — even overseas in Uganda. Thanks ...

GAYAZA, Uganda — Paul Wafula found Dennis Kasumba in a slaughterhouse. By the time he was 14, hunger and hopelessness had led Kasumba to drop out of school and take a job slaughtering cows, sheep and ...

Uganda is located in east Africa and is one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact, nearly two and a half million children — one of out every nine — is an orphan. One of those orphans is ...