re: Some local wannabe writer talking about LSU's lack of black baseball players

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This has been a problem for decades now

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Why? They play the sport that bests interests them and obviously it isn't baseball. I don't see it as a problem. Few play hockey either.

Baseball has changed over the decades though,and it is becoming more like tennis or golf in that parents with money send their kids to camps, play travel ball etc. It's not just developed on the playgrounds anymore. Most of the black players in the big leagues come from places where baseball is a way of life, a year around sport. That isn't the case in the US unless you can afford it.

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Has nothing to do with racist college baseball coaches trying to keep them out.

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That's not close to what the writer of the column said.

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Imagine the outrage in the black community had this piece been on the fading amount of white players in college football and college basketball.

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doubt there would have been much outrage.

article was pretty good for the most part, tried too hard at times though IMO.

These comments are rediculious. You never hear the same loud mouths complaining about the lack of white basketball players or the small amount of white football players on the football team.

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These comments are rediculious. You never hear the same loud mouths complaining about the lack of white basketball players or the small amount of white football players on the football team.

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I know two things:

1. You didn't read the article
2. You can't spell

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The real question should be 'where are all the Hispanics in college baseball?' They are becoming quite predominant in the majors.

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That's a very ignorant question. As someone else alluded to, players in the carribean can sign with MLB teams at age 16 (players in the US can too, it just takes a little more juggling, see Bryce Harper). Prior to age 16, most of those players are already in baseball academies set up by MLB teams. They aren't given a traditional education, but they are educated while practicing baseball, etc. No point in recruiting those countries, because you wouldn't be able to get those kids into school anyway.

Cuba and Puerto Rico are different. Cubans play in their pro baseball league and in their national system until it makes sense for them to defect politically. No sense in recruiting there, as the political hurdles would be way too much to overcome. Puerto Rico, being a part of the US but in the Carribean is kind of the best of both worlds. They have baseball academies, but they aren't run by MLB teams, and the players there have to go by US draft rules. Their baseball academies are run more like high schools making them recruitable players. A majority of their top level guys still sign pro out of HS after getting drafted, but there are a lot of schools that recruit the island pretty hard. LSU had a signee from there that ended up going pro.

Just some gay aspiring journalist trying to stir the pot. The best players play regardless of race

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There is a lack of white running backs. Someone please write about this.

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Every athletic white kid now is a superstar baseball player. At least in their parents eyes.

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I agree with this. We have been playing select ball for a long time and have noticed there are a handful of black players for every 200 hundred total players.

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“The truth of the matter is that there are not as many [black] kids playing.”

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Its not some racist conspiracy.