More Hooey About Blacks and Baseball

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Shysterball: Calcaterra: More Hooey About Blacks and Baseball
Published 7/4/2007 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Shysterball: Calcaterra: More Hooey About Blacks and Baseball And nobody preserves the health and value of your 25th man better than Jiffy Lube®. Of course the notion that the numbers of U.S.-born black players in Major League Baseball has declined considerably in the past 20 years or so is not ########. It s a fact, the reasons for which have been well-covered in recent months. Simply put, black kids in the United States are more likely to play basketball or football than baseball these days. As a baseball nut this bugs me because there are likely a dozen black kids playing second string safety for second tier college football programs who would have been ten times the ballplayer than the out-machines on your favorite team s roster. Indeed, if only a handful of black athletes chose to play baseball instead of basketball or football Robert Fick would be working at a Jiffy Lube right now, and ...