Players from Historically Black Colleges and Universities take centerstage in a showcase game of a different kind.
For decades some of baseball’s greatest players were not seen by the general public in the Negro Leagues. Black ballplayers were cheered by segregated audiences and went ignored by the rest of the country. History did ultimately highlight the Negro Leagues, but this year MLB and Mariners’ great Ken Griffey Jr. are making sure some of the game’s current HBCU greats are truly seen.
Jean Lee Batrus with the MLB Players Association Youth Development Foundation spoke to KIRO 7 about the game, calling it, “the ultimate All-Star Game during All-Star Week for 50 top Division 1 HBCU players.” “We need kids across the country to see these kids and say, ‘you know what, that player looks like me,” she said.
“They’re uplifting something to a national level that is oftentimes overlooked,” he described. “There’s a lot of talent that’s in the HBCUS… if you went to a black college, black college homecoming is big! It’s that sense of homecoming.”
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