Ngoepe made history last month when he ran out for Pittsburgh against the Chicago Cubs, the first African to play Major League Baseball. Very much love in that room,” Ngoepe said. “He was the only kid at his school playing baseball,” Randburg Mets chairman and coach Glen Gillman told The Associated Press. On a wall there’s a poster of Gift in a Randburg Mets uniform, kneeling on the first baseball field he knew — the field just outside the door — and clutching a bat. Chris loves it when his brothers come home but, typically South African, he doesn’t care much for baseball.

Source: thestar May 27, 2017 21:45 UTC