Why Black Baseball Players Are Declining 

Ooh shit you right but you realize alot of Dominicans can fall under black and some Cubans not as much tho

@@beefcakebeefcake7998 there's a lot more black cubans than black Dominicans.

The Bee no

@@thebee9853 there's most black dominican than cuban

@@michotocontusnalgas Where are you guys getting this from? Theres less than 2 million Black Dominicans. While there's over 3 million Black Cubans. Not to mention a lot of so called Black Dominicans are actually Haitian.

I grew up Straight Outta Compton in the '50s and '60s. For a city that's only 10 miles square, we've seen a lot of world-class talent emerge for those boundaries. Our little league's minor teams wore T-shirts and the major teams had uniforms that were donated by businesses and handed down year after year.

If you knew what baseball is then you wouldn't find it boring

Wrong

Y’all Don’t have the same Burdens as Black Americans y’all were never segregated from playing professional sports in your Homeland for one we had to create our Own leagues Because of racism Black Americans are the reason immigrants are even allowed to Play in America. Y’all play in your home countries then get scouted and imported here while we pay thousands for our children smh

Playing catch with a kid IS teaching them the game; that's where it starts. That's where it stated for me. I remember my father taking me to a nearby field and playing catch with me for the first time, with a glove he had just bought and oiled up for me. At first I didn't like it; the stiff glove, yet to be affected by the oil(which takes time to loosen up the glove), the ball hitting me, learning to make the glove an extension of yourself, consistently playing, not giving up, throwing from short all the way to very long distance to develop better hand-eye coordination, etc. It all started with my father pushing me constantly to get back out with him and to play ball. I played all the mainstream sports and I realized, baseball takes more discipline/dedication/perseverance/guidance. You have to want it, and have someone, i.e. father, coach, etc., pushing you along the whole way. Once my father felt I got the throwing/catching down well enough, he moved on to pitching and hitting, and so on. I was already ready when little league came along. I began to hone my abilities, but the sport itself I had already learned; I was now just improving upon it, by being coached, playing with ppl my age, but still playing with my father and him taking me to the cages. A father is a very important part of a young boy's baseball life, and life in general, and if he has no father, as many black youths don't, then he likely won't be ushered into baseball like many white kids are. Baseball is more like a tradition passed down from father to son, generation to generation, basketball, less so. Marketing, too, plays a big roll in snatching young black kids up early, whereas a white father will pull his white son away from marketing nonsense and make sure he tries all the sports, so he can get a feel for what he likes.

Designated Hitter, the decline of black players is because they aren't interested. Second, major league baseball STOPPED investing in American players. Many black American players from the 70's and 80's didn't have fathers. Dave Winfield, Dave Parker, Ozzie Smith, Eddie Murray, Tim Raines, Gary Templeton etc. Your point is off base. Also those players were all elite players.

This is such bullshit. Kids don't just play catch with their dads. Give me a break. And newsflash, just because Black men may not be in the home doesn't mean he's absent. Most Black men are there for their kids. Baseball has has always cost money. You need players and equipment. And like the video explains more and more kids are playing travel ball. All you need to play basketball is a ball and a hoop. We are seeing the same decline in football, btw.

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You do know you have to pay for your own Gas!..

Immigrants are Not Black there are no other “ Black” people outside of the U.S Black is an ethnic Group found here in the states and we have been replaced with melanated foreigners they are much cheaper

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blacks don't play because the shit borrrinnng ... black simply have no interest in baseball that's all. Otherwise, we'd be playing, and we'd be the best :)

baseball is not boring you moron. blacks rock baseball and r the best at it.

that's called an opinion, not a fact.

It all starts at a young age and its true, majority of blacks live in middle to lower classes, my school charged like 600$ to play baseball, soccer charged 150$, basketball 150$ and football was fundraised, baseball in America is expensive, more than in countries like the DR and puerto rico

Racist

blacks don't suck at baseball... blacks don't play baseball...

uhhhh so guys from the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico aren't black? You mean African American? Please try and be intelligent at least for once while trying to join a conversation.

@@drfunk1986 there's more mix in Latinos ya dummy.

@@dangercat9188 still doesn't mean that those players don't identify as black ya tard

I dont get this argument. Our Olympic basketball team is usually made up of African Americans and they dominate foreign teams.

Afro Latinos are Not Black , Black is an Ethnicity not a race

Ed Davie yup just ignore the Latinos and Asians I guess

And the NBA and NFL have the players they want ..Black!….We can play this Rasist game to!