Larry & Satchel; The Buckeyes and the Indians

Posted on July 26, 2012 |

• Sports Column

By Karl Lindholm

Black kids in the U.S. don’t play baseball anymore.

As a generalization, that’s true. Participation by African-Americans in baseball has declined precipitously at all levels in the last two decades or so.

In 1975, 27 percent of all major leaguers were African-American. Now that number is 8 percent. The Red Sox have one African-American on their 25 man roster, Carl Crawford.

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