Baseball Pitches to Recruit Blacks ; Teams with Youth League, Minority Businesses
The Washington Times › August 14, 2007
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In the eyes of baseball Commissioner Allan H. "Bud" Selig, the sport he oversees is in a golden era. Attendance at major league games is at an all-time high, TV and Internet revenues are robust, and competitive balance never has been better.See the full content of this document
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Baseball Pitches to Recruit Blacks ; Teams with Youth League, Minority Businesses
Amid the good news, however, baseball is fighting a distressing trend: The number of black Americans in the game has dwindled to an all-time low.
Stars like Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Joe Morgan once filled baseball's diamonds, but black American players are becoming hard to find. U.S.-born blacks made up more than 27 percent of all players in the 1970s. That number had declined to 8.4 percent by last se...See the full content of this document
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