I agree, fewer black kids want to play baseball. I’m simply exploring reasons why that may be.
Leo, who-—besides you and, possibly, a bunch of power-mad federal bureaucrats and race hustlers-— even cares about what races are or are not represented in professional?
Why SHOULD anyone care? I thought we all bought in to what Martin Luther King, Jr. said way back in the 60s.
How about the fact that basketball can be played with just one net and a half court space but baseball needs a LOT bigger area;and kids are chased way from any lots big enough.And there just aren’t as many big open spaces as in days past.Especially there aren’t baseball sized lots in black urban areas. Plus the sight of young blacks or whites carrying baseball bats is likely to result in a call to police.
baseball has suffered due to the pressures that sports MUST be organized and supervised;when was the last time you saw kids anywhere playing baseball in the old fashion ?
Maybe if the gvt had gone for funding midnight baseball and not midnight basketball as a way of keeping at-risk youth off the streets, we wouldn’t have this problem ...