playing baseball is due to African Americans no longer being interested in the game. Baseball used to be the number 1 sport in Black America, going all the way back to the negro leagues.

That all changed when Michael Jordan came into the NBA. Kids no longer wanted to play strikeout or little league. They wanted to be like Mike, and it just went down hill from there.

As a kid, the only thing we cared about was baseball and playing little league all summer long. Now African Americans kids just care about basketball, and playing AAU all year around, followed up by football.


You could also throw hip hop in there as well. Kids started to focus on breakdancing, rhyming and djing over the summer. There were just so many new forms of recreation and expression that didn’t exist prior to the 80s....baseball had and has too many things to compete with in the African Americans community.