For five long years, the shuttered Boys & Girls Club stood as a silent reminder of what McKees Rocks had lost. A place for kids to play, learn and gather was gone, leaving a “sports desert” in its wake.

There are not a lot of options in the community known as The Bottoms, where poverty, violence and crime are a reality.

But last week, that silence was broken and everything changed for the building — and potentially the community — when a new vision was unveiled to reimagine the space as the Josh Gibson Champions Club and Sports Matter Center.

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The project, fueled by a major partnership with the Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation, aims to do more than just open a community center; it seeks to resurrect the legacy of a baseball legend to inspire a new generation.

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