by Joe Favorito
The Huffington Post
March 30, 2010
Recently First Lady Michelle Obama launched the idea for "Let's Move," a platform to battle childhood obesity through the grassroots initiatives that combine healthy eating and awareness with physical activity. Here's an idea that literally plays into the activity side of that concept: "Sandlot Day 2010." As profiled by Mark Hyman in Sunday's New York Times, Sandlot Day is being championed by Tim Donovan, Director of the Youth Sports Institute at the State University of New York at Cortland, as a day when parents, coaches, and administrators give the games of our youth...especially baseball...back to the kids for a day.
