Why is baseball striking out in the black community? - The Washington Post: At a pee-wee football team practice in my neighborhood — before Hurricane Sandy turned the field into a lake — I stood on the sidelines with coaches talking about . . . baseball. We’d noticed that the field didn’t have a baseball backstop, only football goal posts, which set off an impromptu memorial for the death of baseball in the black community.
“Remember when every sport had its own season, and we played them all?” said Antonio Maffett, coach of the Fort Washington Stallions football team in Prince George’s County. “We’d play baseball anywhere — vacant lots, streets, alleys — and we’d use broomstick handles and socks wrapped in twine.”
