Six percent of MLB players are Black. Let a Fort Worth high school baseball coach, and his team, tell you how and why MLB got here.
the current percentage of its rosters that features Black players creeps closer to the same figure when Jackie broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947.
“When I was a kid growing up here we had a little league baseball that played on Friday and Saturday nights, and it was packed. Games all the time, families everywhere,” he said. “Now, those fields are for 7-on-7 football. You can play football year-round now. They don’t play baseball on those fields any more.”“Baseball has become a sport of affluence,” he said. “It’s $500 for a bat. It’s $200 for a uniform; $150 for a glove. On and on. That’s just at the grass roots level.
It’s around this time the young player is vulnerable to quit baseball in favor of football, basketball. Or, worse, nothing. The young player doesn’t need to play on the undefeated team, but a great way to crush their interest is to play a game they know they have no chance of winning.Wyatt’s roster has 15 players, five of whom are Black, including sophomore catcherHis father played football at Texas A&M, but Jr. is not quite built like his dad.
Lane Jr. is one of those players, and this is not specific to just youth baseball, who is good enough that the expensive travel and select teams will make room for him on a roster. If the player is elite in basketball, baseball, soccer, etc., the costs are covered. “To be honest with you, I love playing,” said Cotton, who has drawn interest from Hill College and Texas Wesleyan.There is something fundamentally flawed when impoverished nations such as Cuba, Venezuela and other Latin countries can make baseball affordable for kids who want to play, and America blew it.
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