As another Jackie Robinson Day nears, many ponder the question and seek solutions.
Servite High School outfielder Miles Scott stretches Thursday, April 11, 2024, with teammates during a practice at the Anaheim school. Major League Baseball rosters feature fewer Black players but efforts are underway to address the trend. celebrates Jackie Robinson’s historic 1947 debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on Monday, April 15, a small number of players wearing No. 42 in his honor will be African Americans.
Servite High School outfielder Miles Scott is seen Thursday, April 11, 2024, before baseball practice at the Anaheim school. Servite High School baseball players, from left, Miles Clark, Miles Scott, Avery Jones and James Clark are seen in the dugout before a Thursday, April 11, 2024, practice in Anaheim.
Their dream is to become the next Lamar Jackson or LeBron James — the NFL and NBA superstars with the Baltimore Ravens and Lakers. Canyon Springs High School baseball player Grant Price, who plays first base and third base, makes a throw Tuesday, April 9, 2024, during a practice at the Moreno Valley school.
Canyon Springs High School baseball coach Darious Carter presides over a Tuesday, April 9, 2024, practice at the Moreno Valley school. Canyon Springs High School’s baseball coach Darious Carter watches a practice from the dugout Tuesday, April 9, 2024, in Moreno Valley. Coach Erikk Aldridge watches Darren Jefferson, a 14-year-old Lake View Terrace resident, pitch at Darby Park in Inglewood during the LA Rockstars’ Thursday, April 11, 2024, practice.
Coach Erikk Aldridge talks to players on the LA Rockstars at Darby Park in Inglewood during a Thursday, April 11, 2024, practice. While declining to state the exact cost, Wimsatt said, his family’s expense for a trainer is in the thousands.Many promising ballplayers of color won’t get far without those features in their development resumes.
So one of the biggest challenges, Aldridge said, is to get more Black players into college to have a better chance of being drafted. Members of the Los Angeles Dodgers are seen Thursday, March 28, 2024, at the team’s home opener at Dodger Stadium. Reflecting a trend in Major League Baseball, the roster features few Black players.
Fifteen of the 57 — 26% — are products of MLB player development programs, such as its youth academies, he wrote. Scott, the Servite High School standout, has taken part in MLB-sponsored programs. One involved traveling and playing for seven weeks last summer in Florida, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, he said.His father, Carl Scott, a salesman for a biotech company, said he believes such programs will show results in a few years, despite the downward trend.
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