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[quote=Anonymous]OP here, so here are some of the reasons why I think there has been a big decline in no particular order:

1. Baseball, it seems more than any other sport, is one that looks like it is passed down from father to son. The black community unfortunately has more single parents/single moms or grandma raising kids.

2. The rise of travel baseball to hone skill and identify talent is a huge issue as the financial barrier to entry to get skilled up and discovered has markedly increased.

3. The initial payoffs in basketball and football are better (d1 baseball schollies are rarely if ever fullrides, the minor league system has crap pay, etc)

4. baseball is too slow for modern kids

5. baseball is tougher to 'play pickup' or 'street' style - if you aren't in a structured setting, it isn't 1950 - you can't get 9 or 18 kids to go to park on your own anymore.

6. mlb clubs have an incentive to pick up cheap latinos through the international signing system and have spend way more money developing and and scouting in latin america than the inner cities, since the inner city kids would be subject to the normal draft. In latin america, it's more the wild west "eat what you kill' so clubs are willing to invest without fearing they're investment will lead to another club benefitting.

RBI is a mLB program designed to get inner city kids playing but without the individual club incentive like there is in latin america (where it is more akin to the european/sa football model) it won't be as effective.

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