Baseball has and will always be a White man’s sport. Even with all the Black players the sport is enjoyed mostly by White People since its inception. This has been the way for most sports until around the 1970s when the sports organizations began pushing Black people into it for no reason other than solving something that no one wants.

This in turn has lead to sports not being known for their skill or prestigious players or games, rather you go on sports news and see players engaging in all sorts of crimes every season. Every year the NFL or NBA see story after story of Black players acting like average inner city Black people but with millions of dollars in hand.

The MLB which has seen less Black People singing up to be players is now promising they are going to make it more brown in the name of Diversity.

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More than 200 HBCU standouts were there for MLB’s Andre Dawson Classic, a collegiate tournament for players hoping to one day crack the major leagues — and perhaps help usher in a new generation of African American stars.

“Being able to be out here and showcase my talents in front of these scouts and other guys who’s looking at us at the next level,” said Allen, now a junior infielder for the Panthers, “it feels great for me because I know that those are goals that I can reach, and they’re there.”

That’s MLB’s aim as it faces historically low numbers of Black players in the majors. A study done by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at Central Florida found African American players represented just 6.2% of players on MLB opening day rosters in 2023, down from 7.2% in 2022. Both figures were the lowest since the study began in 1991, when 18% of MLB players were Black.

That’s also the lowest percentage of African American participation among four of the five major professional sports — NBA, NFL, MLB, MLS — outside of the National Hockey League, where more than 90% of its players are white. MLB has tried to address that with a series of grassroots diversity initiatives.

“We are really doubling down on what we’ve done,” said Del Matthews, MLB’s vice president of baseball development, “because we are producing kids that are going to college, that are getting internships within the sport. We see more kids playing at the Division I college baseball ranks, and we see more kids being drafted into the minor leagues. And so we’re just flooding that through the various programs that we’ve had.”

“We are really doubling down on what we’ve done,” said Del Matthews, MLB’s vice president of baseball development, “because we are producing kids that are going to college, that are getting internships within the sport. We see more kids playing at the Division I college baseball ranks, and we see more kids being drafted into the minor leagues. And so we’re just flooding that through the various programs that we’ve had.”

There are signs of progress at the pro level. Between 2012 and 2021, 17.4% of first-round picks were African American players. That number spiked to 30% in 2022, when four of the first five selections were Black players for the first time ever — and all four were alumni of at least one MLB diversity initiative. In 2023, Black players made up 10 of the first 50 draft selections, or 20%.

Those gains haven’t bolstered MLB numbers yet, and even in the minors, Black participation has been slow to rise. When MLB recently announced rosters for its Spring Breakout exhibitions showcasing top minor league prospects, 9.5% of the players were Black — including 31 alums of MLB’s diversity programs.

MLB’s pipeline begins with an annual tour of pro-style camps in various cities across the country to identify baseball potential among inner city kids. The tour has grown each year — from 12 stops when it launched in 2018 to 18 cities now — and targets kids around 13-14 years old, just before they enter high school.

The goal is to eventually send those players to more advanced development programs, where they can get significant reps playing competitive baseball — mostly cost-free — and create relationships with pro scouts and former major leaguers that can help them down the line.

“The sport has gotten so expensive that it has eliminated a lot of our kids,” said Jerry Manuel, a former manager for the White Sox and Mets. “So we’ve got to do everything we can to get them back in the pipeline.”

Most Blacks aren’t singing up to play pro is because the mirage of the Black athlete is dead in American sports. Black People are no longer hailed as the megastars in the league so now they aren’t bothering to sign up anymore.

This is somehow not stopping them as they want Black youth regardless no matter how violent and degenerate the average 18 year old Black kid is.

White People don’t want to turn on the TV for a Sunday Game and see Black players beating each other up for messing up or go on the news to hear how a new draft pick had sex with hookers or killed a random person. When they see that sports has become that they just turn it off.

Get ready to hear stories of on field Black antics being common place in all of the leagues since after all…. Sports fans are just le nahzee Chudz who don’t want to see Tyrese larp as Jackie Robinson or sheeit.