“ if you don’t have the funds and the ability to put them in a travel or ‘select’ team, they may not even get a tryout in high school.” “You’ve got to spend top dollar for your kids to play,” said Spencer. Unnecessary pressure has been added to a kid’s game by parents demanding results for their pride and financial input. For one, for Spencer and other Black parents, “grassroots” has become a loose term. Outside of a relative handful of locations, a few realities undermine Black inclusion in the sport at the grassroots level. (However, many believe competing officials unjustly targeted the all-Black team after being stripped of the 2014 national championship for using players found to be outside residential parameters.) Jackie Robinson West’s Little League program is one of the best in the country. Even in 2021, they still have the league,” said Spencer. “Jackie Robinson West is the one place where a Black kid can go play baseball no matter what.
Karl Spencer, a University of Texas administrative employee and President of 100 Black Men of Austin, sees it on the southside of his hometown of Chicago. There are small pockets in which baseball is still an institution for Black communities. For the 13-17 age group, the total rate dipped from 9.4% to 9.2%, while the core figure tumbled from 7.6% to 6.1%. (“Core,” per the study, referred to children who played baseball 13 times or more in a calendar year.) The numbers are more troubling as Black children age. Via Today, relayed from a study from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association: “From ages 6-12, the total rate of Black kids playing baseball jumped from 10.1% in 2008 (the first year for which data is available) to 11.1% in 2018 (the most recent year that information is available), although the core dropped from 8.9% to 8.4%.
However, it gets pronounced in others as you get up the ladder. How is this reality possible in the sport famously integrated by Jackie Robinson in 1947 and is celebrated to the hilt every season by Major League Baseball? The answers, and solutions, remain equally cloudy from some angles. Last season, according to USA Today, that figure was 7.7%.” But go back to 2013, to an ESPN story, and writer Tim Keown called “the decline in African-American participation in baseball… an annual parlor game.” Per Sports Illustrated: “ According to the Society for American Baseball Research, MLB peaked at 18.7% African American in 1981. “There aren’t as many African American kids playing the game that I would like to see,” Curtis Granderson, a three-time Major League Baseball All-Star, told Today in 2020. Rd2ltuTqaK- Black News Channel October 27, 2021 Daniel Kelly ( joins host on #PRIME to break down what's going on. academic director of graduate programs, Dr. #MLB is facing decline in Black players and viewers.
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