No one missed that.
Jesse Jackson spent DECADES going after the major sports leagues battling not only the lack of players, but obviously the lack of coaches and front office staff.
So for example, his arduous efforts of pounding against the NFL finally resulted in the "odd concept" of having black quarterbacks and black head coaches. The one big league that has yet to be breached is the NHL (and even there, probably half the players are either Canadian, Russian, or from some Eastern European country).
At some point, these leagues will have to make a decision about whether it is worth the cave and loss of revenue or what.
As it is, the MLB seemed to have already done their own thing by not developing a "farm" system here, effectively avoiding black (American) players all on their own, and instead have been pulling players from outside the U.S. from the Caribbean. Here in Philly, the days of having another Jimmy Rollins are seemingly gone.
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