Posted on 10/26/2022 9:32:19 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Looking around Memorial Stadium before Game 1 of the 1983 World Series, Philadelphia Phillies star Gary Matthews saw a lot of Black talent.
Joe Morgan. Eddie Murray. Garry Maddox. Ken Singleton. Al Bumbry. Disco Dan Ford. And plenty more that night in Baltimore.
“There were quite a few of us,” Matthews recalled.
When fans watch the Houston Astros and Phillies line up this week to begin the Fall Classic, it will be a much different picture.
To be sure, Houston’s Jose Altuve and Philadelphia’s Jean Segura are among scores of Latin players helping keep big league rosters diverse.
But for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series.
Zero.
“That is eye opening,” said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. “It is somewhat startling that two cities that have high African American populations, there’s not a single Black player.”
“It lets us know there’s obviously a lot of work to be done to create opportunities for Black kids to pursue their dream at the highest level,” he said.
Robinson debuted in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and played in the World Series that year. Since then, the 1950 matchup between the New York Yankees and Phillies has been the only World Series without a Black player.
Houston and Philadelphia will announce their 26-man rosters several hours before Game 1 on Friday night at Minute Maid Park, where Dusty Baker, a Black outfielder for the 1981 champion Los Angeles Dodgers, manages the Astros.
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we are globalists now. America can get its blacks from other places.
That’s only because Michael Brantley is on the DL.
The AP and its ilk harp on race because they are racists.
AP, now do the NBA.
I’d like Corn Pop’s take on this.
It’s getting that way for whites in the NBA.
AP, as with the entire Leftist progressive socialist lamestream media, has yet to figure out that most Americans are growing seriously tired of all this race baiting BS.
Idiot Morgan Freeman himself said many years ago, when asked how to end racism in this country, ‘stop talking about it!’
“Morgan Freeman Silences ‘60 Minutes’ Host By Insulting Black History Month | DM CLIPS | Rubin Report”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RosCZkH5uTI
Gosh darn those latins and non-American born Black players.
Don’t they know diversity means… ah never mind.
Bizarre that there are people who obsess about things like this.
I am an Astros fan. I’m rooting for my team because Houston is my town and my ‘Stros are in the World Series. I’ve been an Astros fan for decades.
I couldn’t care less what race any of the players are. Just get it done. #TakeItBack #LevelUp
If you look for black players in MLB, expect them to be from the Caribbean nations. If you look for white players in the NBA, expect them to be from the Eastern European nations. There are exceptions in both cases, but they are exceptions.
For whatever reason, blacks just aren’t into baseball anymore. What are you going to do, force them to play?
“Ed Kranepool - borrow Chico’s soap, and never give it back.”
Agree.
Actually there are a lot more white players now in the NBA, from Europe.
And the player expected to be taken first in the next NBA draft is a black player, from France.
Euros are taking over the NBA.
There’s fewer American players of any color today.
Like Biden said...”you guys are going to have to start working more with Hispanics, who will make up a larger portion of the population than y’all do”
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