Why African-Americans Don't Play Pro Baseball

Why African-Americans Don't Play Pro Baseball
DETROIT, MI - APRIL 11: Austin Jackson #14 of the Detroit Tigers celebrates with teammate Jhonny Peralta #27 after the Tigers defeated the Blue Jays at Comerica Park on April 11, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers defeated the Blue Jays 11-1. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
DETROIT, MI - APRIL 11: Austin Jackson #14 of the Detroit Tigers celebrates with teammate Jhonny Peralta #27 after the Tigers defeated the Blue Jays at Comerica Park on April 11, 2013 in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers defeated the Blue Jays 11-1. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)

The decline in African-American participation in baseball has become an annual parlor game. It works like this: Everybody on the field dresses up in No. 42 jerseys while baseball's cognoscenti stroke their collective chin and ponder why so few people on the field look like Jackie Robinson.

Major League Baseball has decided to address the issue with more than a furrowed brow. In fact, Bud Selig has decided the issue is serious enough to assemble a committee to address it.

That's the good news, and the bad news.

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