Re: CWS racial question ...

"Sorenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> college baseball is a lilly-white sport for many reasons. The most obvious
> being that inner city and even suburban blacks are playing sports like
> basketball more often than baseball because it's much more cost-effective
> and available to them. For example, there are basketball courts aplenty,
be
> it at a park or a neighbors house or backyard, meanwhile baseball diamonds
> and the space they require seem to be shrinking in number. Additionally,
to
> practice basketball, all you need is a basketball and a hoop. Practicing
> baseball requires much more. So that just makes basketball a much more
> popular sport to an inner city kid.
>
> Also, since scholarships in baseball are getting squeezed more and more
(now
> just 11.7 per school), a baseball player that wants to play collegiately
> will probably need to foot most of the bill to attend the school. So if a
> player is good enough to get drafted by the pros, more than likely, if he
> comes from a poor-to-middle class family, he'll take the money of pro ball
> instead of incur the cost of playing at the college level.

Does anyone else see Title IX as the culprit more than anything else ?