Baseball seems not to speak to urban youth, most especially not to urban African-American youth, who skew basketball in fandom and participation, whilst also worshipping at the non-denominational Church of the NFL. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a tough sport, but you can work on your own for quite a bit to get better at it. “Baseball is kind of the little less cool sport,” Devon Travis was musing on Saturday, before the Blue Jays fell 9-8 to Cleveland in game three of their four-game series. As a spectator sport, much less a participant sport, baseball has gone droopy. The reasons for this fall-off of Black players — distinct from dark-skinned Latin players, who come from a completely different Caribbean, Mexican and South American culture — are varied.

Source: thestar September 09, 2018 00:22 UTC