Re: why are their few blacks in MLB??????????
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EsaQue said:
I agree with whoever it was that said that 12% of the US is african american, and that number in baseball is 11%. If these numbers are accurate, then that makes sense.
As for the "inner city kids can't play pick up games", I don't necessarily think that's true. I don't know a lot about the upbringing of Dontrelle Willis, but I know he says his delivery developed from playing a game called "strike-out". They probably didn't do this on a baseball diamond. Now even though I am white, and have never lived in the inner city, I am going to use myself as an example. When I was a little younger, I owuld play pickup games with a friend all the time. Oftentimes, it was just the two of us, playing one on one, with ghost runners, using a crack in the sidewalk as second base, with a three story apartment building looming right over us, and using tennis balls instead of baseballs. We would do this almost everyday. It was actually easier for us to get a game of baseballgoing than to go across the street to play basketball (though we did do that to mix it up every once in a while) We didn't play on big fields, with top of the line bats (we used plastic, $5 bats), but we still constantly played the game.
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Me and my boys used to do that ALL THE TIME !. We'd end up arguing over where the baserunners were !
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EsaQue said:
I agree with whoever it was that said that 12% of the US is african american, and that number in baseball is 11%. If these numbers are accurate, then that makes sense.
As for the "inner city kids can't play pick up games", I don't necessarily think that's true. I don't know a lot about the upbringing of Dontrelle Willis, but I know he says his delivery developed from playing a game called "strike-out". They probably didn't do this on a baseball diamond. Now even though I am white, and have never lived in the inner city, I am going to use myself as an example. When I was a little younger, I owuld play pickup games with a friend all the time. Oftentimes, it was just the two of us, playing one on one, with ghost runners, using a crack in the sidewalk as second base, with a three story apartment building looming right over us, and using tennis balls instead of baseballs. We would do this almost everyday. It was actually easier for us to get a game of baseballgoing than to go across the street to play basketball (though we did do that to mix it up every once in a while) We didn't play on big fields, with top of the line bats (we used plastic, $5 bats), but we still constantly played the game.
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Me and my boys used to do that ALL THE TIME !. We'd end up arguing over where the baserunners were !
Why is it that after someone makes the comment that they aren't racist the next thing out of their mouth is something that most certainly IS racist? Honestly, I've never really paid too much attention to who/what Major League Baseball markets itself to. I don't know what would classify something as "white marketing" or "black marketing". To me, they should market themselves to the people. And by that, I mean all of us. White, black, Asian, Hispanic, whatever.
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