Showcasing Black Baseball Talent Amid a Pandemic

Aspiring Black high school and community college baseball players gather for the Pro-Youth Foundation College and HBCU Showcase at South Gwinnett High School. Photo by Harold Michael Harvey

There is a myth that Black youngsters are not playing baseball these days. If you look at Major League Baseball (MLB) rosters and most Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), it is easy to come away with that impression. Around eight percent of professional baseball players are Black Americans. This number is down from approximately 30 percent in the late 1970s, thirty years after Jackie…