The spectators were mostly Black kids, ranging from elementary school to high school. The teams — all from historically Black colleges and universities — had names that won’t resonate with the average baseball fan.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Sign up for our acclaimed free newsletter Editorially Black with the top Racial Equity stories of the day to your inbox! held this week in Montgomery, is giving dozens of HBCU players from NAIA and Division II schools a chance to compete for a title beyond their own leagues and perhaps attract attention from Major League Baseball teams.
Only 59 of the 945 players on opening day rosters this season were Black players born in the U.S. That’s a nearly two-thirds decline from when the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports started compiling last year’s World SeriesIt’s a far cry from when Smith was starring for the St. Louis Cardinals starting in the early 1980s. Smith said it’s a trend that concerns current players and his contemporaries alike.
LaMonte Wade, the only Black player on the San Francisco Giants, said events like the Black College World Series are a great first step. Michael Coker, a former baseball player at Edward Waters College, started the Black College World Series in 2021. In May, MLB signed on to help support an event sponsored by Tyson Foods, which brought in some 10,000 youths from Montgomery and surrounding areas, according to company spokesman Derek Burleson.
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