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The cost of baseball is what is keeping young black kids from playing. I agree whole-heartedly with the professor.
Being that I'm only 18 myself, I have numerous memories of playing games with my neighborhood boys in the streets at night, mostly who were black. Only once do I remember playing baseball. It's sad and funny, because all of these guys were pretty good basketball players, and the one time we played baseball, they were nailing all these balls that would have been homers if we had a fence. It was also sad because I go beaned right on my ass.
Everybody played basketball because, on the relative cheap, you could buy a hoop and just stick it by your driveway. And a ball.
Football we played all the time under the street lights. You just needed a football for that.
Baseball. You need bats and baseball at the bare minimum. That's how we played that one time. When you're playing organized, you need bats, baseballs, gloves, uniforms, cleats, a cup, and probably are going to be playing on a diamond.
See the difference? And this is coming from a middle class kid
Edit-Raderick sorta beat me to it
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