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Originally Posted by Amazin69
After Reggie, there's a filmed piece from Barry Bonds (Willie was his godfather). Barry speaks deeply about how his generation bears the responsibility to "keep that torch alive for the next generation of black players."
Alas, Barry may get his hands burned, given how few black players there are his generation to pass that torch to. Can you believe that there are zero African-Americans on the rosters tonight? We've come a long way…but we've gone back, too.
(The Giants feature Heliot Ramos, who is from Puerto Rico, and Jorge Soler, a black Cuban. The Cardinals don't even have any dark Latinos. The 2024 Cards are as thoroughly white as the 1924 Cards. Holy Rogers Hornsby!)
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Victor Scott II? No?
Also, look, I have no actual skin in the game here, but I always find the narrowing-down on *African-Americans* odd, when Heliot Ramos and Jorge Soler would have had as much of a whiff of playing in the AL or NL as Andrew McCutchen and Ke'Bryan Hayes would have had, had any of them been born in the 1
890s.
And yes, I had to go through about five teams' rosters to find a couple of actual African-American players.
