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L 'Dawn Guymon, 8, smiles big as Freddy Jones takes a moment to autograph a picture for the young fan.
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Jerry Boligitz, 36, directorof the
fled g lin g G ray s Ferry R ookie
League, sits on a splintered bench
watching a game between teams of
8-to-12-year-olds, most o f them
black. Their stances are awkward,
their swings flailing.
“T h ese k ids, th e y ’ve never
picked up a bat,” he sighed.
His league, its history measured
in games, not seasons, is one pro­
gram fostered by Major League
Baseball to boost the gam e’s popu­
larity in cities. And without it and
others like it, there is concern blacks
could largely disappear from the
game.
“ A fric a n -A m e ric a n p la y ers
seem to be dw indling in num ­
b ers,” said Phillies center fielder
D oug G ian ville, one o f tw o black
players on the P h illies’ active
roster. “ You hate to see any seg­
ment that was such a prevalent
force previously, I w o n ’t say d is­
appear, but headed that d irec­
tio n .”
Ten percent o f m ajor league
players in 2001 -02 were black,
dow n from 17 percent in 1989,
according to the 2003 Racial and
G ender Report C ard from the In­
stitute for D iversity and Ethics in
S port, well below the peak figure
o f 24 percent about 25 years ago.
For this reason. M ajor League
B a seb a ll an d its team s h av e
poured m illions o f dollars into
program s like R ookie League; a
$3 m illion Youth Baseball A cad­
e m y u n d e r c o n s tr u c tio n in
C om pton, C alif.; and Reviving
Baseball in In n erC ities(R B I),th e
leag u e’s flagship urban baseball
program.
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