Scarsdale Kids' Gym Adds Baseball Clinic

Great Play Scarsdale, an interactive kids' gym in Scarsdale, is now offering a spring baseball clinic for kids.

With baseball season gearing up, Great Play Scarsdale has added a spring baseball clinic for ages 4½-10 to its list of sports classes. Baseball Program Skills focuses on teaching children the basic skills needed to play before the child plays a full baseball game. A new skill is worked on in every class, and the curriculum does not progress until every child has perfected the skill.

“They are thrown into the game in a rec league, but they may not have mastered the different skills,” says owner Zineb Truta. “[The program] allows them to master the skills and successfully play the game when they get out there.”

The gym uses its patented interactive arena to focus in on specific skills. While practicing throwing, a screen could be set up to emulate milk bottles stacked in a triangle. Children can then throw a ball at the milk bottles on the screen and watch as they fall.

At the end of the 18-week program, children will play a proper baseball game utilizing every skill they have learned.

Instructors work with a 1-to-5 teacher-to-child ratio, and classes are as large as 15 children. Most of the gym’s instructors have physical education degrees or have previous experience working with children.

Baseball Program Skills started in March and runs until the end of June, but children can join at any time. The program costs $109 for four weeks and $299 for 12 weeks. A $49 annual fee is applied to new registrations. The class is held Tuesdays at 5pm, and runs for 50 minutes.