A Tribute to Negro League Baseball
As the baseball season kicks off for Simeon Career Academy and the Jackie Robinson West Little League, poet and former Negro League Baseball player Ernie Westfield offers a poetic tribute to the struggles and success stories of his former league. (Heather Charles/Chicago Tribune)
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Baseball season begins Thursday, the national pastime has a problem: too
many kids are choosing to dedicate themselves to other sports.
Fox 5 Sports | Thursday, 31 Mar 2011, 8:36 AM EDT
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Once a hit, baseball now striking out with blacks
In the sport that gave us Jackie Robinson, where are all the African-American players? Yahoo Sports -
By PAUL NEWBERRY, AP National Writer | June 24, 2010
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Third Annual BREAKTHROUGH SERIES, July 26-30, 2010
Major League Baseball (MLB) and USA Baseball
announced that the Third Annual Breakthrough Series
will move to the Triangle-area of North Carolina | May 3, 2010 click here
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BREAKTHROUGH SERIES UNDER WAY
Event brings together top high school players from the U. S.
Major League Baseball News Release | July 21, 2009 click here
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DeKalb (Georgia) Residents help African Americans in Baseball
The Champion Free Press, pages 22-23 | July 25, 2008 click here
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INAUGURAL BREAKTHROUGH SERIES, SPONSORED
BY MLB AND USA BASEBALL, WILL PROVIDE EXPOSURE FOR
TALENTED YOUNG PLAYERS
Major League Baseball News Release | June 11, 2008 click here
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The decline of African Americans in baseball...
News Converage by MyFox 5 Atlanta
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Rainbow Push
According to Rainbow Sports director Dextor Clinkscale, "Rainbow PUSH
is
proud of its association with Mentoring Viable Prospects.? We believe
MVP's tournament and education program offers a practical and effective
answer to the question, 'how do we? get more African American
youngsters playing collegiate baseball?'"
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MVP
News Converage with CBS46
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MEAC's Minority
Rule
In Historically Black Conference, Non-Blacks Fill Baseball
Rosters
Tommy Stratchko plays first base and designated hitter for
Coppin State University in Baltimore. His twin brother,
Bernie, plays third base for the
University of Maryland-Eastern Shore. Three years ago, when
their mother
Norma first heard the acronym HBCU, she had to ask what
it meant.
Today, when the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference -- a collection
of
historically black colleges and universities -- begins its
baseball tournament
in Norfolk, Norma Stratchko and her husband will be in the
stands and
their sons will face each other on the field.
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African-Americans haven’t abandoned baseball
By Terence Moore | Thursday, August 17, 2006, 06:16 PM
For the next three days, the biggest lie in the history
of sports will be
exposed with a bunch of swinging, throwing, fielding, sliding
and running
at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston. More than 100
high school
baseball prospects, mostly from the South, will flash their
considerable
skills on campus, and here’s the thing: The prospects will
be darker than
the ball...
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Black players get a chance to play in a Tournament
By RAY GLIER | Published: August 22, 2006
Football and basketball seem to have become the sport of
choice for
most of the top young black athletes. But the lure of others
sports is
only one of the issues confronted by Mentoring Viable Prospects,
a
nonprofit group based in Atlanta that held its first showcase
for black
baseball players at Georgia Perimeter College last weekend.
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