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Baseball

Casady1

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2. This is not surprising

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2022, 03:56 PM

Oct 2022

I coached little league and you could not get the African American kids to play. Baseball has become a well off game. Players have to come from households with a lot of disposable money. Gloves are $250.00 bats are $300.00 and travel baseball is in the thousands.

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When the Astros and Phillies line up Friday [View all] kairos12 Oct 2022 OP

Yep, heard it as well on Keith Olbermann's podcast today. By the way, he is outstanding. Ninga Oct 2022 #1

This is not surprising Casady1 Oct 2022 #2

And the Phillies have few Hispanic players as well. (nt) NoRethugFriends Oct 2022 #3

Same with the Astros TxGuitar Oct 2022 #8

Astros also have an African-American outfielder.. luvs2sing Oct 2022 #4

Venezuelans, Dominicans, and suburban white guys underpants Oct 2022 #5

I don't watch much baseball these days, but I was noticing the other day rurallib Oct 2022 #6

Just read this online and came here to post it. Xavier Breath Oct 2022 #7