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With the NY Grays, David Owens \u201990 offers young men a path to college (and sometimes, even to the Yankees)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Lindsay Lennon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For David Owens \u201990, one of his earliest memories is watching a 1973 World Series game between the New York Mets and Oakland A\u2019s on TV\u2014and playing wiffleball afterward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was always baseball, baseball, baseball,\u201d recalls Owens, a native of Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side. \u201cGrowing up in New York City, we played wherever we could\u2014between cars, in the schoolyards, in Central Park.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, as the founder and director of operations for the New York Grays<\/a> youth baseball organization in the Bronx, Owens is shepherding some of the city\u2019s most promising players down <\/strong>the same roads he traveled as a scholar-athlete. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owens (far left) with the team at a 2017 tournament.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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His winning approach: education is the destination, and baseball is the path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past 17 years, Owens says, every youth who has gone through the entire Grays program (beginning at age 13 and staying through high school) has matriculated to college, including several at Ivy League universities. More than a dozen Grays have been selected in the Major League drafts\u2014including current New York Yankees centerfielder Harrison Bader<\/a> and Kansas City Royals pitcher Jose Cuas<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owens routinely takes Grays players on academic recruiting visits across the country, including frequent trips to the Hill. (Big Red outfielder Elijah Diaz \u201923<\/a> is a former Gray from the Bronx.) At tournaments, he comes prepared with not just his players\u2019 stats, but also their GPAs and SAT scores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"David
Owens\u2019s varied career path includes a foray into standup comedy in NYC and Las Vegas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\u201cYou can be great on the field, <\/strong>but the coach is going to ask me about your grades,\u201d says Owens. \u201cSo I tell my boys, \u2018academics first,\u2019 and I let them appreciate the synergy between athletics and academics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Martir was a teenager when he met Owens, after Martir\u2019s travel league merged with the Grays.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

He attended the University of Maryland and played for teams within the Houston Astros and Milwaukee Brewers organizations, and he\u2019s now a minor league hitting coach for the Yankees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo this day, I still call him any time I need any kind of guidance,\u201d says Martir, who notes that Owens even helped him open his first bank account. \u201cHe was a part of the community that helped shape the man I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off the field, Owens stresses collegiality; he has a strict \u201cno bashing\u201d rule, and at tournaments he encourages players to socialize with their opponents during meals. He reminds them to respect quiet hours when staying in hotels, often a first-time experience for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owens (center) on the Hill with former Grays player Elijah Diaz \u201923 (in red) and members of Diaz\u2019s family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Many Grays players\u2014the majority of whom are of Dominican or other Hispanic heritage\u2014hail from New York\u2019s most underserved neighborhoods, like Martir and Cuas of East New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others, like Bader\u2014who grew up in Bronxville in Westchester County, and was coached by Owens at Horace Mann prep school before joining the Grays\u2014come from far more privileged communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I let them appreciate the synergy between athletics and academics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA lot of Dominican kids do not hang out with prep school kids from the Upper East Side, but in my program, they do,\u201d says Owens. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how the common denominator is baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bader says his time with the Grays helped expand his worldview beyond his affluent, predominantly white neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The camaraderie he formed with teammates from around the city gave him a sense of common ground when he went on to play for other ball clubs\u2014and, now, for the legendary Bronx Bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt its base, it\u2019s about finding the best baseball players who can use the game to better their lives however they see fit,\u201d Bader says of the Grays, which he also lauded when the New York Times<\/em> profiled<\/a> him in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a decision, every day, to help kids grow up and become something; there are a lot of pieces to that, but it wouldn\u2019t be possible without David as the glue. He has cultivated a real community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Coaching a practice in the Bronx.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Before matriculating at Cornell, Owens graduated from the McBurney School in Manhattan, an all-boys academy whose famous alumni include Ted Koppel and Henry Winkler. His parents\u2014his mom was a teacher; his dad played pro basketball for the Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards)\u2014placed a high premium on education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pitcher and outfielder for Big Red from 1986\u201388, Owens went on to four years in the pros\u2014playing for independent teams across the U.S. and spending two winters with a league in the Dominican Republic\u2014before returning to NYC to work as a member of the American Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He has cultivated a real community.<\/p>\nNew York Yankee Harrison Bader<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Owens admits he had no master plan when he founded the Grays organization in 2006. In fact, he hadn\u2019t been involved in baseball in over a decade; he was working in real estate, had taken musical performance courses at Julliard, and briefly enjoyed a side gig as a standup comic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when a high school buddy needed a coach for his son\u2019s team, Owens headed to the Bronx and \u201cput them through the wringer, training them like little professionals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Owens (front and center, wearing sunglasses) with the Big Red baseball team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nearly two decades later, he still relishes the regular updates he gets from Grays alumni: marriages, master\u2019s degrees, newborns, new jobs, and\u2014for a select few\u2014playing professional baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost of the stuff we teach them has nothing to do with baseball, and that\u2019s why we turn out such outstanding, successful young men,\u201d Owens observes. \u201cI tell them, don\u2019t worry about whether you get drafted. Worry about when you\u2019re 65 or 70, and you ask yourself: did you have a good life?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All photos provided.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published April 28, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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