{"id":4223,"date":"2022-10-27T09:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T13:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2022-10-31T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:17:19","slug":"a-phillies-astros-mlb-world-series-without-any-african-american-players-say-it-aint-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstandpen.com\/staging\/5861\/a-phillies-astros-mlb-world-series-without-any-african-american-players-say-it-aint-so\/","title":{"rendered":"A World Series Without Any African American Players? Say It Ain&#8217;t So."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MLB postseason has been as exciting as it has been surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gone are the big-name, big-market teams like the Yankees, Dodgers and Mets. Finished is the thrilling run made by the Padres. And while the Astros were expected to contend, no one saw the Phillies coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not even the city of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet while baseball fans are anticipating the start of the World Series on Friday, an alarming fact has surfaced that seems unlikely to change in 24 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be no African American players in the 2022 World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking at the rosters of both the Phillies and the Astros, they&#8217;re both pretty diverse as they feature many players of color thanks to a slew of Latino players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, frustratingly, neither field a single American-born Black player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not one.<\/p><div id=\"first-1943898750\" class=\"first-content first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream2 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413625220-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For cities with large Black populations, that&#8217;s both shocking and sad, and a manifestation of the consistent decline in Black baseball participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No longer do we see players like Gary Matthews, Ryan Howard or Jimmy Rollins suiting up for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a flashback to 2020 when, if it wasn&#8217;t for the Dodgers&#8217; Mookie Betts, the World Series would have been completely devoid of African American players. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/World-Series-Black-players-Astros-Phillies-f7768955507758abf3af00552d4ba9b7\">In his story for the AP,<\/a> Ben Walker notes, &#8220;(But) for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"first-2187356529\" class=\"first-content_2 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream3 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700413989195-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s infuriating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mlbbro.com\/2022\/10\/27\/no-mlbbros-in-2022-fall-classic-first-time-since-1950-world-series-sadly-void-of-soul\/\">According to MLBBro.com<\/a>, the Phillies had no African-American players on their roster for the first time since 1959, and the Astros&#8217; Michael Brantley (OF) and Josh James (P) are both injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That blanks Black people from the World Series rosters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat is eye opening,\u201d said Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, in that AP story. \u201cIt is somewhat startling that two cities that have high African American populations, there\u2019s not a single Black player.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"first-523422705\" class=\"first-content_3 first-entity-placement\"><!-- \/22950135888\/FAP_Article_Leaderboard_Instream4 -->\r\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0' style='min-width: 300px; min-height: 90px;'>\r\n  <script>\r\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1700414036595-0'); });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Black players were blanked this year from the October Classic, change appears to be coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MLB Youth academy, founded in 2006 in Compton, CA, has produced eleven current MLB players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in the 2022 MLB Draft, four of the first five players selected were Black. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So while Black players will have to watch the 2022 World Series in frustration, the future seems much brighter than the recent past for African American participation in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLB postseason has been as exciting as it has been surprising. 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