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In Business in the Portland area sfnee 1989
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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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