Who maintains the official list of "decent" people?

as the saying goes, figures don't lie, but liars know how to figure.

as a fellow south bronxite how about roofing the ball, down the river, moons up, ring o levio, rck, skelsey, crate carts with roller skates, box ball, etc

btw, a tree grows in brooklyn is a classic time machine into that era. Love watching the old appliances especially the gas lighting in the apartments. Brooklynites are great cousins.

Us guys in Brooklyn invented ring o levio, skelley, box baseball perhaps even carpet guns. Apparently the young folks from the Bronx stole them from us.

Welcome to da bronx
 

youse guys r the youngins. Weez the big brothers

Perhaps but Brooklyn and Queens were vast improvements.:pepper2:

Baseball is a hard sport to watch on Television unless you know the game. It’s slow and boring. Plus, when you price the families out, you fail to capture the interest of the next generation. In other words, kids don’t want much to do with baseball. That’s a crying shame.
According to Team Marketing Report, the average cost for a family of four to attend a 2022 Major League Baseball game was $256.41, an increase of $3.04 from the previous season. The main engine behind the rise was the cost of tickets, with the average general ticket price increasing 3.6% to $35.93. How many families can afford that.

" instead of seeing it for what it is."

What exactly do you think "it" is?

Blacks practically dominate football and basketball, so playing the racism card is a little disingenuous.

When I was a kid, you could get bleacher seats for 50 cents. Family of 4, $2.00. Our little league team would go to a game once a year. The whole team and 4 dads could go for less than $10.

OK, let me try:
Roofing the ball ; would that be hitting it on the roof. we use to have a nickel tax to play
Down the River : in the sewer
moons up : street lights on?
skelsey: sidewalk game with bottle caps (melted crayon inside the cap)
Crate Cart (w roller skates): our equivalent of todays razor scooter
Remember the skates, they would slip over our keds or converse. They did not come with a shoe like today.
Box Ball: we didn't play box ball. We did play knock hockey if you recall that.
Ring o levio: a type of tag. We played breakout, where if tagged you were placed in a circle and could be freed if tagged by a team mate.
We had a name for a Spalding after it split. We'd flip the half inside out and continue to play. Very difficult for the batter.
I took me kids to see where I grew up. They were astonished. Back then I thought the whole world was like that (I guess we would be considered lower middle class). All we knew and all of our friends were in the same neighborhood, same school, same clothes. For us that was the world.

Tickets were much more affordable when we wore a younger mans clothes. As teenagers we would go very often by train. Shame prices have gone so high.

Wish they would build larger stadiums with cheaper seats in the upper decks or outfield but apparently that ship has sailed

Ain't THAT the truth!

As Mark Twain so famously said, there are three kinds of untruths: "lies, damned lies, and statistics".

he is half black........50% black doesn't mean you are black......you are looked at as black because people are racists

It's not the post that's stirring the pot, it's the article

World series
 

And all but 5 of Phillies roster is white. Hmmmmm!!

Is it just possible that management picked the 26 best players to be on the team?

Picking the best qualified for the job. Pick someone NOT based on pronouns, sexual preference, color of skin.

You do realize that this is 2022.

That may work with baseball, but it sure would not be allowed with most other jobs.

So you’re saying there’s no major black player that we know in the World Series or no black players on either team, all white!

Sad state of affairs

I believe there are black (notice I did not capitalize the b) players but from place like Dominican Republic.

You should watch Test or County Cricket!
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz:icon_bored:!!

Sports
 

Football can be played on any open area, tackle on grass touch on pavement, baseball needs a large window free area

Where we played windows were part of the field, often foul balls were stopped by the window, sometimes not and we lost the ball. Cost to play was the spaldeen costing well under a buck

I recall a two day cricket game in Barbados the last time Haley's comet came around (I was there for the comet, the game was a bonus). One man watched the entire game, and for most of it he was passed out drunk.

I recall 35 cents in 1969. They started out as hairless tennis balls (usually seconds in the beginning)

We played tackle football once on the paved schoolyard. We only did that once. One time, two plays.

Best way to watch, and I played the game for years!

Ahh, ya sissies. We played in the street and called it ,murderball". If the game didn't murder you, your mom would for coming home all bloody with your clothes all dirty and torn. 😠

No you didn’t quite understand stand your question when you said there wasn’t any black players or just no stand out black players but thank you for clearing that up!

A number of us on our high school varsity team, would play a regular pickup game (tackle) on Sunday afternoons. That came to a grinding halt, after a few of us starters (myself included) had some injuries that kept us from starting during the season - and the coaches found out what we were doing. lol Thinking back to how much we all loved to just play the game, in spite of barely being able to move come Monday morning, is something that helps me understand Brady's situation. I have to say though, that 'The GOAT' may have blown the true best thing he had going for him all these many years - which was a very understanding/accommodating wife.

Kinda sad all the way around, but ya never know with true love - and it could change in the future.

It's Baseball...Enjoy!

Thinking about this thread if the teams take the 26 best players who really care about their race?

Are we supposed to feel bad that no blacks are on the team even if they had no qualified ones?