re: Final Four. Little League World Series. Guess what? Race in play?

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ood black baseball players coming out of high school that get offered any kind of money sign and wash out in the minors. So most people never hear of them. If they would instead go to college and improve under the tutelage of decent college coaches, they might have a better chance to get to the majors.

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Plus, baseball has become a year around sport in the south and west. As someone mentioned, these kids from Chicago more than likely come from solid homes and parents that have some expendable income. I've been coaching Dixie Youth since 1991 and while I've coached dozens of black kids, the number that consider baseball to be their best or favorite sport is small.

When you begin talking about travel teams, private instruction and food and lodging, the money begins to add up. Most of these kids simply don't have the ability to be a part of those programs.

On top of that, of the big 3, baseball is the sport that requires the least raw muscle and talent to play. Hell, a 4' 8" kid from Mexico hit a home run last week over a 220' fence.

I doubt the team set out to exclude non-AA kids. It's probably a reflection of the demographics that the team is derived from.

It's only about race if you make it about race and usually 12 year old kids aren't that obsessed with race yet.

Good, we need more black kids taking up baseball to keep the sport from going to shite in the future.

Wrong again.... 225 ft

Correct you are, sir. My bad.

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Whatever, I'm inclined to root for the boys if it instills character, and keeps em' from going rogue.

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You're hoping it will turn them white, aren't you?

If the Chicago team wins or loses, they will have multiple ticker tape parades and go stright from the field to the White House.