Former six-time All-Star and former Cy Young Award winner CC Sabathia ripped the MLB for alienating black athletes.
Mediaite is reporting that Sabathia wrote about this in his new memoir titled Till The End, which talks about being a black baseball player in a white dominated league.
"Baseball is boring too much of the time." writes Sabathia. "The game needs to change, and I don’t mean using more data to shift guys on the infield. I’m talking about the way people say, 'He played the game the right way' when what they mean is 'He played it the white way.'"
"The right way," often coincides with opposition from coaches, broadcasters, and fans from player celebrations. Those include Bat flips, fist pumping after a strikeout, or dancing across the plate.
Despite those celebrations creating great highlights for social media, they seem to remain rejected. The result of tempering with those highlights is young people going to the NFL and MBA, while baseball's base grows older.
"What they mean is they don’t like the flair that Black and Hispanic guys bring to the field," added Sabathia.
"You can play baseball a long time, have a lot of fun, and make a lot of money. But right now, this sport is not for us, and we know that," wrote Sabathia wrote. "If the game doesn’t change, it’s going to be in trouble, and not just with Black people."
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