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Stillman College Only Has One Black Baseball Player

Stillman College, a Historically Black College, has only one black baseball player on a roster of 36. That is pretty weird.

Chris Rock did a great little monologue for HBO Sports on Baseball's black problem, and among one of his points was this startling bit of information: Stillman College, a Historically Black College in Alabama, has only one black baseball player. If you go look at the 2015 roster page, you see it's not hyperbole, you also see that the head coach is white. There are minorities, sure, but the team is overwhelmingly white and, again, has just one black dude on a roster of 36 players.

And I realize calling it "Baseball's black problem" is itself sort of problematic—especially given that I am a white dude writing about sports on the internet—because it's not like someone is actively preventing black players from playing baseball. But if there are tons of able black kids who would like to play baseball but for some of the more terrible aspects of Baseball's culture, then that is a problem.

h/t The Buzzer