I’m a fair weather baseball supporter. When the Tigers are doing well, I keep up. When they aren’t doing well? Not so much. I’m getting a chance to go to Camden Yards tomorrow. And because I’m not really going to see the game (a colleague of mine wants me to meet the person who own the skybox we’re going to be seeing the game from), I didn’t even know who they were playing (Detroit!) until I looked at the ticket.  While playing softball after a more than 20 year layoff was one of the highlights of living in Saint Louis–especially when I got my swing back–the game of summer for me has and will always be basketball.
So it was with only mild suprise that I read the following:
Even baseball teams at historically black colleges and universities (known as HBCUs) are now often comprised of mostly whites and Hispanics. Bethune-Cookman University, currently the No. 2 ranked HBCU baseball team in the country, plays its home games at Jackie Robinson Ballpark in Daytona Beach, Fla., site of Robinson’s first exhibition game in the Dodgers organization. Only seven of Bethune-Cookman’s 31 players are black.
More here.
Doc during the fifties the Tigers came to Jayne, Northwestern and Butzel all Detroit baseball parks.These trips consisted of clinics and autograph sessions with the little leaguers. During the sixties the clinics stopped and never returned. Now the clinics are not responsible for the decline of African Americans playing the nation pastime but it helped. For my contribution I plan on coaching baseball.
When exactly was that when you “got your swing back” when playing in the STL? I batted right behind you in the lineup, and can’t exactly remember when that was 😉 Looking forward to seeing you on Friday…
the few games you didn’t play my last year…that must’ve been 2004? didn’t last long!
Tigers won