Black Baseball

An excerpt from The New Yorker -

The Mission of a Black Baseball Team
BY JOHN FLORIO AND OUISIE SHAPIRO

Sports fans know that black participation in Major League Baseball has dropped precipitously in the past few decades. According to a report published last year by USA Today, less than eight per cent of major-league players in 2015 were African-American; that figure was nineteen per cent in 1986. And the decline can be seen at every level of the game: Little League, the minors, high school, college—even H.B.C.U.s. Thirty years ago, it was virtually impossible to find a white player on an H.B.C.U. team. Today, Winston-Salem State, Florida A&M, Prairie View A&M, and North Carolina Central all field teams in which the majority of players are not black. Only a few schools—Clark Atlanta, Morehouse College, and Lane College—regularly fill their rosters entirely with black players.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-mission-of-a-black-baseball-team?mbid=nl_160512_Daily&CNDID=27124505&spMailingID=8914754&spUserID=MTE0MzE0NDEyNDUyS0&spJobID=921243805&spReportId=OTIxMjQzODA1S0