Julian Haliga founded Milwaukee Baseball Club in 2009 to help bridge the gap between suburban and central-city baseball programs.

Located a short distance from American Family Field, the home ballpark of the National League champion Milwaukee Brewers, the club offers local youth year-round access to batting cages, athletic training areas and meeting spaces.

It’s also set to receive key athlete-development technology in the form of HitTrax, a patented baseball data-tracking and simulation system that uses optical sensors and computer vision to track the flight path of a ball the moment it is hit, providing analytics like exit velocity, launch angle and distance.

The purchase of the new equipment is being made possible through an MLB Together World Series Legacy Project unveiled Friday morning at the club’s facility on Milwaukee’s South Side. The announcement came as the Brewers prepared to host Game 1 of the World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays.

“It’s a dream. Pinch me, because I need to wake up,” Haliga said at a celebration, emceed by Brewers play-by-play broadcaster Josh Maurer and held at Milwaukee Baseball Club’s facility, which was packed with young baseball players and their coaches. “This is a machine we never, ever would have gotten otherwise, and it’s going to bring kids to the facility by the droves.”

The $25,000 donation, along with an ongoing multi-year grant from the Brewers Community Foundation, will help preserve local youth baseball in Milwaukee and ensure long-term support for the facility, which also works in collaboration with MLB’s Nike RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) program, an initiative to make the sport more accessible and inclusive for low-income families and children of color.