- December 15, 2025
Mark Whiten, one of few players in Major League Baseball history to hit four home runs in one game, will be ready to give tips to Flagler County kids at a free clinic this weekend.
The KinderVision Foundation will host The Greatest Save/Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association Youth Clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 16, at Matanzas High School, for kids ages 7 to 15.
The clinic will provide instruction in the fundamentals of throwing, catching, hitting, fielding, base running, bunting and pitching.
Joining Whiten will be former California Angels player Rick Reichardt, who was so highly touted out of college that teams engaged in a bidding war to sign him in 1964. That led to the beginning of the amateur draft in 1965.
Participants in the June 16 clinic will also receive a free age-appropriate The Greatest Save Safety DVD on which the kids will be interviewed, creating a souvenir of the day.
Doug Sebastian, a Flagler County resident, is the founder of KinderVision. He travels around the United States facilitating clinics like the one this weekend, and he said he is hoping for a good turnout to show the organization that Flagler County is a good location for future clinics, as well.
The Greatest Save aims to education parents and children about abduction prevention. Sebastian said that he recently started having parents and children take a three-question, true-or-false survey at the clinics to demonstrate the importance of education.
The statements are as follows:
1: Most crimes against children are carefully planned.
2: Most crimes committed against children are committed by strangers.
3: The age group most at risk of abduction is 15 to 17.
The answers to these questions are as follows:
1: False. Most of these kinds of crimes are crimes of opportunity, Sebastian said.
2: False. Most are committed family members, friends or close acquaintances.
3: True. While most people think small children are most at risk, teenagers are more commonly abducted than children.
At a recent clinic in California, Sebastian said, only four parents out of 112 families got all three of these questions correct.
“If parents don’t understand the issues, they don’t understand the risk, and if you don’t understand the risk, you can’t manage it,” Sebastian said.
For more on the organization, visit www.thegreatestsave.org/flagler-volusia.
“This is absolutely free,” Sebastian said. “We’re trying to do as much as we can for the community.”
