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The success of urban baseball teams at the LLWS starts a conversation
Flying Kite Staff
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
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Teams from Chicago and Philadelphia have brought exciting energy to this year's Little League World Series.
Along with a team from Philadelphia led by
a phenomenal young pitcher, Mo’Ne Davis
, Jackie Robinson West became an early World Series story line. A similar sentiment surrounded a team from Harlem in 2002...
Even as baseball preaches diversity, the game continues to spiral economically out of the reach of an increasingly larger pool of potential players after Little League. The cost of participation, especially with travel teams becoming the norm before players reach high school, can reach thousands of dollars a year.
To reverse the decline in black participation, Granderson said, Major League Baseball could copy the Amateur Athletic Union model in basketball, in which major shoe companies provide financial support that allows talented teams to travel to tournaments. Baseball also needs to do a better job of putting black players in front of young people, he said.
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