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McCutchen in "The Players Tribune" Jeter's blog re low income kids


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I think full rides are mostly reserved for money sports.

Bingo. The money is in football and basketball. College baseball, not so much. Moreover, lets talk about the basic cost of getting into the sport - baseball is an expensive sport. Gloves, bats - these things aren't cheap. Baseball needs space, which is sometimes a hard thing to find in major inner cities. School teams are a thing, but schools in cities keep becoming subdivided into smaller and smaller populations and charter schools don't really field teams. On top of all of that as local budgets get slashed students are forced to now pay to play in many districts - pay for things that none of us really had to pay for once we made the team.

There are rec league, but again as local gov'ts slash budgets those fees can be cost prohibitive to many people on top of equipment, travel, et al.

There are a lot of reasons for baseball's decline among the nation's poorer communities. It has become a bourgeois sport in America, it is becoming lacrosse.

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Bingo. The money is in football and basketball. College baseball, not so much. Moreover, lets talk about the basic cost of getting into the sport - baseball is an expensive sport. Gloves, bats - these things aren't cheap. Baseball needs space, which is sometimes a hard thing to find in major inner cities. School teams are a thing, but schools in cities keep becoming subdivided into smaller and smaller populations and charter schools don't really field teams. On top of all of that as local budgets get slashed students are forced to now pay to play in many districts - pay for things that none of us really had to pay for once we made the team.

There are rec league, but again as local gov'ts slash budgets those fees can be cost prohibitive to many people on top of equipment, travel, et al.

There are a lot of reasons for baseball's decline among the nation's poorer communities. It has become a bourgeois sport in America, it is becoming lacrosse.

"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."

--Bob Ueker

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