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Posted By: tbob

Soccer???? No way, the reason is that high school coaches are now demanding that their football players attend camps in the summer, ditto basketball coaches. In the South high school football has become an almost 12 month a year proposition and with AAU in late Spring and Summer, basketball is close to it also. Everyone wants to be the next Michael Jordan or Michael Vick.
The real tragedy is that African Americans are no longer playing baseball. The number of Blacks in the minor and major leagues have dropped significantly, generally for the reasons above. Both Joe Morgan and Harold Reynolds have mentioned this on ESPN baseball shows a number of times...