Blog Post 8

4/14/10

Letter to the editor

Dear Mr. Bud Selig,

There seems to be a huge problem with the game of baseball which is affecting many communities across America. The problem is there are few African American baseball players and this is hurting many of the urban communities. This problem is affecting those areas because there are few role models for the sport for young Afro- American kids to look up to. Also, I believe if baseball was more advertised in urban communities more kids from those communities would participate in the sport. By investing some money into the urban communities baseball could get a lot of fans for life, I’m sure it wouldn’t hurt any of the teams to give a few kids from the inner city tickets to games to come out and enjoy the game. If baseball were to become active in the inner city it would help a huge number of kids stay out of trouble and give them something to do after a school. With most basketball and football teams being full of kids from urban areas, baseball could possibly be an alternate for the kids to choose from. In my opinion, some of the abandoned buildings/ apartments could be torn down to create baseball diamonds for kids who may not have transportation to play on. Not only would that help the kids but it could also help the city by cleaning it up and having something new for them to take care of. All in all, I’m a huge fan of the sport, but I would love to see more African Americans get involved in it. I honestly think that if you guys assisted in introducing it to the inner city more African American kids would participate in it and potentially help the game continue to be great in the future. Thanks for your time and I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Kevin Claxton

Urban City Activist